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Žarko Koprivica

Personal information

Born

Nationality

Serbian

Career information

Playing career

1974–1981

Position

Number

Career history

1974–1981

Career highlights and awards

Medals

Men's basketball

Representing Yugoslavia
European Championship for Cadets
	1975 Greece	U16 Team

Žarko Koprivica (Serbian Cyrillic: Жарко Копривица; born May 8, 1956) is a Serbian basketball executive and former professional player.

Playing career

Koprivica played for Crvena zvezda of the Yugoslav Federal League. Over 181 games he averaged 14.9 points per game.^[1] He won one Yugoslav Cup in his first senior season. In the 1978–79 season, he averaged 29.3 points per game.

Koprivica is a founder and the president of the AS Basket, a basketball club for youth based in Belgrade. The club is founded in 1997.^[3] Players who played for the youth team of AS Basket are: Marko Kešelj, Aleksandar Cvetković, Ivan Marinković, Brano Đukanović and many others.

Žarko Koprivica is married to Marija (born 1957). They have two sons: Jovan (born 1982) and Nikola (born 1988). Both sons were professional basketball players. Jovan played for Crvena zvezda, Panellinios, Politekhnika-Halychyna, Kryvbas and OKK Beograd. Nikola played college basketball for the Washington State,^[4] and for the Superfund and Iraklis.

^ На данашњи дан: Рођен Жарко Копривица. mojacrvenazvezda.net (in Serbian). 7 May 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
^ "Player Profile, 1975". FIBA. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
^ "AS Basket - About". ksb.rs. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
^ "Nikola Koprivica Profile". wsucougars.com.

v t e Crvena zvezda 1974–75 Yugoslav Basketball Cup champions
4 Goran Rakočević 5 Zoran Lazarević 5 Vladan Grujičić 6 Ivan Sarjanović 7 Žarko Koprivica 7 Božidar Pešić 8 Radivoje Živković 9 Vesko Pajović 10 Dragan Kapičić 11 Ljubodrag Simonović 12 Dragiša Vučinić 13 Dušan Spasojević 14 Dragoje Jovašević 15 Zoran Slavnić
Head coach Nemanja Đurić

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