Miloš Bojović (born 1938)

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| name = Miloš Bojović

| native_name = Милош Бојовић

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1938|06|25}}

| birth_place = Priština, Yugoslavia

| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|8|5|1938|06|25|df=yes}}

| death_place = Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia

| other_names = {{flatlist|

Miško
Miško Boem

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| nationality = Serbian

| education =

| alma_mater = University of Belgrade

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Basketball player, coach and executive
journalist
lawyer
politician

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| draft_year = 1960

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| career_number = 4, 12, 5

| career_start = 1957

| career_end = 1969

| years1 = 1957–1969

| team1 = Partizan

| years2 = 1963–1964

| team2 = → OKK Beograd

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Miloš Bojović ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Милош Бојовић}}; 25 June 1938 – 5 August 2001) was a Serbian lawyer, sports journalist, professional basketball player, coach and executive, as well as a politician.{{cite web |title=Miloš Bojović – Miško Boem |url=http://www.okkbeograd.org.rs/wp-content/uploads/biografije/Milo%C5%A1-Bojovi%C4%87-biografija.docx-1.pdf |website=okkbeograd.org.rs |accessdate=26 May 2020}} He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.

Basketball career

= Playing career =

Bojović spent his entire playing career with Belgrade-based club Partizan. Over 13 seasons, from the 1957 to 1968–69 season, he played 202 games and scored 4,086 points.

Bojović was loaned to OKK Beograd for the 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup season. Over three games, he averaged 7,3 points per game.{{cite web |title=Champions Cup 1963-64 |url=http://pearlbasket.altervista.org/CC64.htm |website=pearlbasket.altervista.org |accessdate=27 May 2020}}

= National team career =

Bojović was a member of the Yugoslavia national team that won the bronze medal at the 1963 FIBA European Championship in Wrocław, Poland. Over six tournament games, he averaged seven points per game.{{cite web |title=1963 Yugoslavia 7 - Milos Bojovic |url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/team/p/sid/2249/tid/390/accumulated-statistics.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601150842/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/team/p/sid/2249/tid/390/accumulated-statistics.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 June 2022 |website=fiba.basketball |accessdate=26 May 2020}} He was member of the national team that won the silver medal at the 1965 FIBA European Championship in the Soviet Union. Over six tournament games, he averaged six points per game.{{cite web |title=1965 Yugoslavia 13 - Milos Bojovic |url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/team/p/sid/2250/tid/390/_/1965_European_Championship_for_Men/accumulated-statistics.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601145339/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/team/p/sid/2250/tid/390/_/1965_European_Championship_for_Men/accumulated-statistics.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 June 2022 |website=fiba.basketball |accessdate=26 May 2020}}

= Post-playing career =

Bojović was a head coach of the Partizan junior team from 1969 to 1972. After that, he was a staff member of Partizan. During the late 1980s, Bojović was president of the Belgrade Basketball Association.

Journalism

Bojović also worked as a sports journalist who wrote about basketball. In 1963, he started to work for Politika, and then in the newly established Politika Ekspres. During the 1970s, he followed and wrote about the national basketball team.

Legal career

Bojović earned his law degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. In 1986, he opened his law firm together with his wife Vesna. From 1995 to 2003, Bojović was a State's attorney for FR Yugoslavia.

Political career

During the early 1990s, Bojović was a member of National Assembly of Serbia. He got elected at the 1990 Serbian general election. Later, he was elected to Federal Parlement of FR Yugoslavia.