Žarko Paspalj (Pljevlja, 1966.) je bivši crnogorski košarkaš i državni reprezentativac. Igrao je na mjestu niskog krila. Visine je 208 cm. Igrao je u Euroligi sezone 1998./99. za talijanski Kinder iz Bologne.
Žarko Paspalj (Serbian Cyrillic: Жарко Паспаљ; born March 27, 1966) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player working as a sports administrator. Since 2009 he has been vice-president of the Serbian Olympic Committee.
Spanning 16 and a half seasons, from 1982 to 1998, his pro career was spent mostly in Yugoslavia and Greece along with several short stints in the NBA, France, and Italy.
For years, he was also an automatic choice for the Yugoslav national team, representing his country in one FIBA World Championship, two Olympics, and four European championships.
Paspalj's Serbian forester father Jovan moved from a small village on the slopes of Kozara in Bosanska Krajina to Pljevlja on business as he dealt in the lumber trade. Once there he married a local woman, Mileva, and remained.
When young Žarko was ten years old, his father's job requirements moved the family to Titograd. Žarko took up basketball and soon established himself in the youth system of KK Budućnost.
Paspalj began his career in 1982. At 16 he moved up to Budućnost's first team where he was part of a talented generation alongside Zdravko Radulović and Luka Pavićević.[2] At the time, Budućnost was a small, unambitious side that essentially served as talent feeder for bigger Yugoslav League clubs like Partizan, Cibona, Jugoplastika, Crvena Zvezda and Bosna.
Constantly in danger of relegation, Budućnost sometimes banked on more than just its own quality for top-league survival. There is an unconfirmed story that became a bit of local urban legend from the early 1980s when Paspalj was a junior, about Cibona coming to Titograd for a late season game which was meaningless for Zagreb side but crucial for Budućnost's hopes of remaining in top division. The story goes that a deal was struck between two sides to allow the home team to win, while in return Cibona management got to watch Budućnost's juniors practice and take whichever player they liked back to Zagreb. Knowing Paspalj was by far their best young prospect and an asset that would soon be worth a lot of money, Budućnost's club management wouldn't let him train for a few days, which meant that Cibona never saw him and picked another player.
Not too long after that, Paspalj entered the senior squad. Playing under young head coach Milutin Petrović and alongside seasoned Yugoslav League players such as the Ivanović brothers (Duško and Dragan), the talented youngster contributed greatly to Budućnost's third place league finish in the 1985-86 season and a playoff semi-final wh
Žarko Paspalj (Serbian Cyrillic: Жарко Паспаљ; born March 27, 1966) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player working as a sports administrator. Since 2009 he has been vice-president of the Serbian Olympic Committee.
Spanning 16 and a half seasons, from 1982 to 1998, his pro career was spent mostly in Yugoslavia and Greece along with several short stints in the NBA, France, and Italy.
For years, he was also an automatic choice for the Yugoslav national team, representing his country in one FIBA World Championship, two Olympics, and four European championships.
Paspalj's Serbian forester father Jovan moved from a small village on the slopes of Kozara in Bosanska Krajina to Pljevlja on business as he dealt in the lumber trade. Once there he married a local woman, Mileva, and remained.
When young Žarko was ten years old, his father's job requirements moved the family to Titograd. Žarko took up basketball and soon established himself in the youth system of KK Budućnost.
Paspalj began his career in 1982. At 16 he moved up to Budućnost's first team where he was part of a talented generation alongside Zdravko Radulović and Luka Pavićević.[2] At the time, Budućnost was a small, unambitious side that essentially served as talent feeder for bigger Yugoslav League clubs like Partizan, Cibona, Jugoplastika, Crvena Zvezda and Bosna.
Constantly in danger of relegation, Budućnost sometimes banked on more than just its own quality for top-league survival. There is an unconfirmed story that became a bit of local urban legend from the early 1980s when Paspalj was a junior, about Cibona coming to Titograd for a late season game which was meaningless for Zagreb side but crucial for Budućnost's hopes of remaining in top division. The story goes that a deal was struck between two sides to allow the home team to win, while in return Cibona management got to watch Budućnost's juniors practice and take whichever player they liked back to Zagreb. Knowing Paspalj was by far their best young prospect and an asset that would soon be worth a lot of money, Budućnost's club management wouldn't let him train for a few days, which meant that Cibona never saw him and picked another player.
Not too long after that, Paspalj entered the senior squad. Playing under young head coach Milutin Petrović and alongside seasoned Yugoslav League players such as the Ivanović brothers (Duško and Dragan), the talented youngster contributed greatly to Budućnost's third place league finish in the 1985-86 season and a playoff semi-final wh
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