Dušan Radojčić

Dušan Radojčić
Personal information
Born	1931; Yugoslavia
Died	5 May 1999 (aged 67–68); Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Position	Guard
Number	13
Career history
As player:
1949–1951	Proleter Zrenjanin
1952	Partizan
1953–?	Proleter Zrenjanin
As coach:
0000	Kombinat Zrenjanin
0000	Mašinac Zrenjanin
0000	Plastika
Career highlights and awards
	As player Yugoslav League champion (1956);

Dušan Radojčić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Радојчић; 1931 – 5 May 1999^[1]), was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.

Playing career

Radojčić spent most of his playing career with Proleter Zrenjanin of the Yugoslav Basketball League.^[2] He played the 1952 season for a Belgrade-based team Partizan.

During his second stint with Proleter he won the National Championships in the 1956 season.^[3] Radojčić was a part of the group of players known as the Proleter's Five, which included himself, Milutin Minja, Ljubomir Katić, Lajos Engler, and Vilmos Lóczi.^[4]^[5]

Radojčić was a member of the Yugoslavia national team that participated at the 1950 FIBA World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He played one game at the tournament and scored 2 points.^[6]

Radojčić coached Zrenjanin-based teams Kombinat and Mašinac, as well as Žitište-based team Plastika.^[1]^[7]

Radojčić briefly played handball for the Proleter handball team in 1949.^[9] His son Dragan played basketball.^[1]

The 2016 Serbian documentary Šampioni iz pedeset i šeste (transl. The 1956 Champions) portrays Radojčić and the achievements of the Proleter basketball team in the mid 1950s and how they won the Yugoslav Championship in 1956.^[10]^[11]^[12]

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