Legendary Duško Vujošević, first coach of Montenegro, passes away

Legendary basketball coach, first head coach of the Montenegrin national team, Duško Vujošević, passed away today in Belgrade at the age of 68.

Vujošević had had serious health problems for a long time, primarily with his kidneys, and he underwent a transplant in Belarus in 2025.

In March of this year, he was admitted to the hospital after his health seriously deteriorated due to heart and lung problems.

Vuošević was born in Podgorica and began his coaching career in 1976 in the junior categories of Partizan. His first independent job was at OKK Belgrade, where he managed the junior team and became the champion of Yugoslavia with it. After one season, he moved to Mladost from Zemun, to be an assistant at Partizan from 1985 to 1987, and then two more seasons as head coach, where he won the Radivoje Korać Cup and the Yugoslav Cup. He later managed Granada, returned to Partizan for a year, and was also the coach of Crvena zvezda, before going to Italy.

After six years in Italy on the bench of Brescia, Olimpia Pistoia and Pesaro, he returned to Serbia where he managed Radnički Belgrade. His most successful tenure was at Partizan from 2001 to 2010, before leaving for CSKA Moscow. He returned to Partizan in 2012 and was the coach until 2015. He also managed Limoges and ended his coaching career in Cluj, Romania. He was also the coach of Serbia and Montenegro, the first coach of the Montenegrin national team, and he also managed Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In his career, he won the ABA League five times, two titles in Yugoslavia, three championships of Serbia and Montenegro, six Serbian championship titles, two Yugoslav Cups and two Radivoje Korac Cups. In Romania, he won the double crown with Cluj. In the Euroleague, he led Partizan to third place in the 1987/88 season and to the Final Four in 2010, when the "black and whites" finished fourth.

He was named the best coach in the Euroleague in the 2008/09 season, when he led Partizan to the Euroleague quarterfinals for the second time in a row and earned the "Aleksandar Gomeljski" award.

He has been an advisor at SC Derby since 2022. He managed the Montenegrin national team from April 2007 to November 2010.