The Yugoslavia men's national under-18 basketball team (Serbo-Croatian : Juniorska košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije ) was the boys' basketball team, administered by Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia , that represented SFR Yugoslavia in international under-18 (under age 18) men's basketball competitions, consisted mainly of the European Championship for Juniors , nowadays known as the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.
After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, the successor countries all set up their own national under-18 teams. Serbia and Croatia teams won the Championship for three times each, as of 2017.
Several team members have been inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame , including players Krešimir Ćosić , Mirza Delibašić , Zoran Slavnić , Dragan Kićanović , Vlade Divac , Jure Zdovc , Toni Kukoč , Dražen Petrović , and coaches Ranko Žeravica , Bogdan Tanjević , Mirko Novosel , Dušan Ivković , and Svetislav Pešić . Also, Dino Rađa , Divac, Petrović, Kukoč, and Novosel are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame .
Bogdan Tanjević is the only individual who respresented the team both as a player (1964) and a head coach (1974).
Individual awards
Top Scorer
Competitive record
Coaches
Rosters
New national teams
After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, five new countries were created: Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , FYR Macedonia , FR Yugoslavia (in 2003, renamed to Serbia and Montenegro) and Slovenia . In 2006, Montenegro became an independent nation and Serbia became the legal successor of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia and became a FIBA member in 2015.
Here is a list of men's national under-18 teams on the SFR Yugoslavia area:
See also
References
Basketball in Yugoslavia
National teams
League competitions
Cup competitions