Serbian basketball legend Dragan Kapicic passes away

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Serbian basketball legend Dragan Kapicic has died at the age of 76. The date and place of the funeral will be announced later.

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The news that the famous former member of Yugoslavia's national squad has left us saddened the basketball world on Monday morning.

Kapicic was born on August 7, 1948, and spent most of his playing career in Crvena Zvezda (Red Star) - from 1966 to 1975. He was also a member of Saturn from Cologne, Germany.

Kapicic is the best scorer in the history of Crvena Zvezda, a club he helped win two domestic titles (1969 and 1972), lift the Cup trophy three times (1971, 1973 and 1975). He was also a member of the squad that won the Winner's Cup in 1974, when Zbrojovka from Brno, then Czechoslovakia, was defeated in a game played in Udine, Italy.

In the Yugoslav national team, he played 30 games at European Championships, 13 games at World Championships, nine at Olympic Games, and 19 at Balkan Games.

Kapicic was the winner of seven gold medals: Balkan Games (1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973), World Championship (1970), and European Championship (1975).

Also, with the national team, he won silver at the European Championship in 1969, 1971, and at the World Championship in 1974.

In 2007, Dragan Kapicic became the president of the Basketball Association of Serbia.

The date and place of the funeral will be announced later.

(Telegraf.rs)