Vlade Đurović
Serbian basketball player and coach
Vlade Đurović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владе Ђуровић; born 16 May 1948) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player.
Early life
Born in 1948 to Bosnian Serb parents Danilo Đurović from Sokolac and Mileva Cerović from Rogatica—both active World War II Partisan resistance participants who had met during their time fighting the guerrilla war, then following the war moved to the Yugoslav capital Belgrade, got married and started a family—young Vlade grew up in the Belgrade neighborhood of Cerak. His father Danilo fought the war in a unit headed by the well-known communist commander Slaviša Vajner Čiča, and, by the time the conflict ended, rose to the rank of major in the Yugoslav secret police, UDBA, all of which facilitated his relocation to Belgrade where the new, communist, authorities provided him with an apartment unit in a newly-built housing complex as the country transformed from a pre-war monarchy into a Stalinist people's republic.
Growing up in Cerak, across the road from Belgrade Fair grounds, the athletic youngster excelled in various sports, including football, basketball, and handball. Among the neighbourhood friends adolescent Đurović played street football with, Blagoje Paunović—residing in the same apartment building as Đurović—would later go on to a professional football career. At one point during the late 1950s, young Đurović himself pursued football in a more structured environment, registering for a tryout at Red Star Belgrade's youth categories run by the up-and-coming young coach Miljan Miljanić. However, due to not having an ID card on him that day, pre-teen Đurović's height and strong physique (compared to that of his age group peers) made Miljanić suspicious about the youngster's stated age. As a result, Miljanić sent the young applicant back, telling him to return with an ID card, which young Đurović, somewhat put off by the experience, never did.
Instead, on suggestion from schoolmate Marijan "Šilja" Novović who had already been playing basketball in the OKK Beograd youth system, fifteen-year-old high school (gymnasium) first-year student Đurović went over to OKK where, following a single practice session, he was immediately given a spot in the OKK junior team's starting five by the youth team coach Glišić.
After two years of playing the power forward position in the club's juniors, seventeen-year-old Đurović was attached to the full squad by its head coach Bora Stanković.
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