Dragan Labović, former Serbian national team player, passes away

"With great sadness, the Basketball Federation of Serbia received the news that our former national team player Dragan Labović left us too soon. The Basketball Federation of Serbia expresses its deepest condolences to the family," the KSS announced.

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Dragasn Labović, Photo: FIBA
Dragasn Labović, Photo: FIBA
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Former Serbian national basketball team player, Dragan Labović, passed away today at the age of 39 from a heart attack.

The information was also confirmed by the Basketball Federation of Serbia.

"With great sadness, the Basketball Federation of Serbia received the news that our former national team player Dragan Labović left us too soon. The Basketball Federation of Serbia expresses its deepest condolences to the family," the KSS announced.

Dragan Labović was born in Prokuplje on April 20, 1987. He started his junior career in Zdravlje, and moved early as a great talent to FMP, for which he performed from 2003 to 2010.

He played for Aris, Skyliners, Frankfurt, Yenisey, Krasnaya Kryla, Nizhny Novgorod, Kozalin, Turkish Aliaga. He also played for Al-Riyadh, Asesoft Ploieşti, Istanbul, Karpoš Sokoly, Nokia...

He won the Radivoje Korać Cup in 2007 while playing for FMP. In the 2008/2009 season, he was the top scorer in the Adriatic League, averaging 18 points per game.

Labović was a member of the junior categories of the Serbian national team, and in 2003 he won a gold medal at the European Championship with the under-16 team. Three years later, with the under-20 team, he won a gold medal at the continental championship in Izmir, which he repeated a year later in Gorica.

He made his debut for the senior Serbian national team under the command of Zoran Moko Slavnić, and played at the 2007 European Championship in Spain. Five years later, Labović was on Dušan Ivković's list for the European Championship, but was crossed off at the last minute.

In September 2012, Labović sent a letter to the media, in which he accused coach Ivković of being influenced by a management agency, believing that this was why there was no place for him on the roster.

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