The legendary Montenegrin basketball player, Jelena Dubljević, was elected today as the president of the Basketball Association of Montenegro (KSCG).
At the extraordinary Electoral Assembly, Dubljević defeated the current president, Nikola Peković, who held the position from May 2021.
42 delegates voted for Jelena Dubljević, while Pekovic received the support of 38 of them.
After the vote, Pekovic congratulated the new president, and after leaving the hall, he did not want to make statements to the media.
This is, by the way, the first time since independence that at least two candidates participated in the elections for the president of the Federation, and therefore the first time that the new president did not receive unanimous support. Before Dubljević and Peković, the presidents were Veselin Barović (twice), Milo Đukanović and Igor Lukšić.
The previous months in KSCG were very turbulent. One group claimed that the mandate of the Management Board and President Peković expired in January, and the other that it expired only for the Management Board, which was also noted by the Sports Inspection. Then the KSCG Assembly was scheduled twice, which was not held - the first time on June 16, when the election of the president was also scheduled, between Peković and the then opponent Igor Lukšić, due to the failure to adopt the agenda, and the second time on October 20 due to the lack of quorum.
Jelena Dubljević made her debut in women's basketball in 1999, at the age of 12, in Roling from Nikšić. At the age of 15, she was part of the Euroleague team Buducnosti, and then she played in Spain, France, the Czech Republic, Russia, Turkey, China and the USA. In the previous season, they played in the final of the Euroleague with Turkish Mersin, but Fenerbahçe was better in the cup match.
She is the first basketball player from this area to win a ring in the WNBA league. It was in 2016 with the Los Angeles Sparks.
With the national team of Montenegro, she was on the threshold of a medal twice - in 2011 in Poland, when Miodrag Baletić's team reached the quarter-finals with all six victories, and then stopped against Turkey (56:44), and in 2015 in Hungary, when Momir-Moma Milatović defeated Spain 75:74 in the battle for the semi-finals.
After a year's break, she joined the national team again in the qualifiers for the previous Eurobasket. She was one of the key basketball players on the road to Denmark, when Montenegro won the European Championship.
Unfortunately, she did not play at the Eurobasket, where she was supposed to officially say goodbye to the national team. The injury prevented him from appearing in Israel and Slovenia.
Since the previous summer, he has been the team manager of Buducnost Bemaks basketball players.
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