Dragoljub Pljakić

Serbian basketball player and coach

Dragoljub Pljakić
Personal information
Born	(1937-08-28)28 August 1937 Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died	28 June 2011(2011-06-28) (aged 73) Belgrade, Serbia
Nationality	Serbian
Career information
Playing career	1955–1964
Coaching career	1965–1993
Career history
As player:
1955–1958	Radnički Belgrade
1959	OKK Beograd
1960–1964	Radnički Belgrade
As coach:
1965–1967	Radnički Belgrade
1970–1971	Borac Čačak
1971–1974	Crvena zvezda Women
1976–1977	Metalac
1979–1981	Dinamo Pančevo
1982–1984	Partizan Women
1984–1985	OKK Beograd
1985–1991	Partizan Women
1992–1993	Radnički Belgrade

Dragoljub Pljakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб Пљакић; August 28 1937 – June 28 2011), nicknamed "Pljaka", was a Serbian basketball player and coach.

Playing career

Pljakić spent the major part of his playing career with Radnički from Belgrade,^[1] which played in the Yugoslav First Basketball League. During the 1959 season, he played for OKK Beograd.^[2]

Coaching career

Men's Basketball

Pljakić coached Radnički Belgrade, Borac Čačak, Dinamo Pančevo,^[3] Metalac, OKK Beograd.^[4]

Women's Basketball

Pljakić coached Crvena zvezda and Partizan.^[4]

Pljakić was a head coach of the Yugoslavia women's national team that placed 6th at the 1964 FIBA World Championship for Women.^[5]

Career achievements

Women's Basketball

Yugoslav League champion: 3 (with Crvena zvezda: 1972–73 and with Partizan: 1983–84, 1985–86)
Yugoslav Cup winner: 2 (with Crvena zvezda: 1972–73, 1973–74)

Personal life

Pljakić was married to Vukica Mitić, a basketball player.^[2] She played for ŽKK Crvena zvezda and represented the Yugoslavia national team internationally.

References

^ "IN MEMORIAM: Dragoljub Pljakić Pljaka (1937-2011)". mojacrvenazvezda.net. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Dragoljub Pljakić–Pljaka" (PDF). okkbeograd.org.rs. Retrieved 3 May 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "In memoriam Dragoljub Pljakić Pljaka". pancevac-online.rs. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Preminuo košarkaški trener Dragoljub Pljakić". sport.blic.rs. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
^ "Preminuo Dragoljub Pljakić Pljaka". b92.net. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

KKŽ Crvena zvezda head coaches

Nebojša Popović (1946–1952)
Milorad Sokolović (1952–1957)
Strahinja Alagić (1957–1960)
Dragan Godžić (1961)
Dimitrije Krstić (1962–1964)
Milan Vasojević (1965–1966)
Sreten Dragojlović (1967–1971)
Dragoljub Pljakić (1971–1974)
Strahinja Alagić (1974–1981)
Zoran Kovačić (1981–1988)
Vladislav Lučić (1988–1990)
Zoran Kovačić (1990–1994)
Dragomir Bukvić (1994–1995)
Zoran Tir (1995–1996)
Stevan Karadžić (1996–1998)
Srđan Antić (1998–2000)
Vladislav Lučić (2000–2004)
Jovica Antonić (2004–2005)
Dragomir Bukvić (2005–2006)
Zoran Višić (2006–2007)
Dragomir Bukvić (2007–2008)
Miroslav Kanjevac (2009–2011)
Jovan Gorec (2011–2012)
Zoran Kovačić (2012–2013)
Dragan Vuković (2013–present)

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

v t e OKK Beograd head coaches
Mioljub Denić (1946–1948) Radomir Putnik (1949) Mihajlo Krnić (1950–1951) Aleksandar Nikolić (1952) Strahinja Alagić (1953) Borislav Stanković (1954–1961) Aleksandar Nikolić (1962–1963) Borislav Stanković (1964–1965) Slobodan Ivković (1966–1967) Todor Lazić (1967–1968) Borivoje Cenić (1968–1969) Borislav Stanković (1969–1970) Borivoje Cenić (1970–1971) Branislav Rajačić (1971) Borivoje Cenić (1971–1972) Todor Lazić (1972–1975) Branislav Rajačić (1975–1979) Slobodan Ivković (1979–1980) Branislav Rajačić (1980) Slobodan Ivković (1980–1981) Petar Marković (1981) Slobodan Ivković (1981–1982) Duško Vujošević (1982–1983) Vojislav Vezović (1983–1984) Dragoljub Pljakić (1984–1986) Životije Ranković (1986–1987) Zdravko Rajačić (1987–1989) Veselin Matić (1989–1990) Marijan Novović (1990–1991) Gordan Todorović (1991–1992) Vojislav Vezović (1992) Rajko Žižić (1992–1994) Gordan Todorović (1994) Igor Kokoškov (1994–1995) Ivan Jeremić (1995) Zoran Prelević (1995–1996) Slobodan Nikolić (1996–1999) Vladimir Jokanović (1999–2001) Predrag Jaćimović (2001–2002) Nenad Vučinić (2002–2003) Jovica Antonić (2003) Luka Pavićević (2003–2004) Dejan Mijatović (2004–2006) Slobodan Nikolić (2006–2007) Marko Ičelić (2007–2011) Vlade Đurović (2011–2012) Srđan Jeković (2012–2013) Vlade Đurović (2013) Milovan Stepandić (2013–2015) Vlade Đurović (2015–2016) Darko Kostić (2016–2018) Branislav Vićentić (2018–2019) Branko Milisavljević (2019–2020) Branislav Ratkovica (2020–2021) Vasilije Budimić (2021–2022) Vule Avdalović (2022–present) Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

OKK Beograd head coaches