This article is about the basketball player and coach. For the politician, see
Mirko Marjanović .
Serbian basketball player and coach
Mirko Marjanović Born (1926-05-02 ) 2 May 1926Nationality Serbian Listed height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) Playing career 1945–1957 Position Center Number 4, 12 Coaching career 1954–1957 1945 Yugoslav Army 1946–1957 Partizan 1951 → Crvena zvezda 1954–1957 Partizan
As player :
Mirko Marjanović (Serbian Cyrillic : Мирко Марјановић ; 2 May 1926 – unknown ) was the Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.
Playing career
Marjanović played for Belgrade -based teams the Yugoslav Army and Partizan of the Yugoslav First League . In the 1945 season , he won the Yugoslav Championships with the Yugoslav Army.
In June 1951, Marjanović played two games for Crvena zvezda at an international cup tournament in Milan , Italy. On 18 June, he recorded 10 points in a 46–35 loss to Borletti Milano . On the following day, he recorded 17 points in a 54–24 win over Ginnastica Roma.[ 1]
National team career
Marjanović was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team at the 1947 FIBA European Championship in Prague , Czechoslovakia . Over five tournament games, he averaged 9.2 points per game.[ 2] At the 1953 FIBA European Championship in Moscow , the Soviet Union , he averaged 6.5 points per game over eleven tournament games.[ 3]
Marjanović was a Yugoslav team member at the 1954 FIBA World Championship in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. Over five tournament games, he averaged 4.2 points per game.[ 4]
Coaching career
As player-coach , Marjanović coached Partizan for the last four seasons while he played for them.[ 5]
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