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}} Predrag "Saša" Danilović (, born February 26, 1970), usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilović, is a Serbian former professional basketball player, considered one of the best European shooting guards during the 1990s. Danilović was voted Mister Europa Player of the Year in 1998, and was Italian League MVP the same year. Since 2007, he has been the president of Partizan, the club with which he spent six years as a player during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 2015, he resigned from the position. ==Early life and career== Born in Sarajevo to a family of Herzegovinian Serbs (father Milan from the Orašje Zubci village near Trebinje and mother Vuka from the Kukričje village near Bileća), Danilović grew up in the Alipašino polje neighbourhood near the RTV Sarajevo main building.〔;RTS - ''Balkanskom ulicom'', 22 August 2010〕 Already well versed in streetball, he started playing organized basketball in KK Bosna's youth setup where he was coached by Mladen Ostojić. The player's talent was evident from the start and it didn't take long before he started receiving attention from bigger clubs such as KK Partizan whose assistant coach Duško Vujošević spotted the youngster at the inter-republic youth basketball cup where Danilović represented SR Bosnia-Herzegovina. By late 1985 Vujošević started courting the 15-year-old. Getting Danilović and his parents to agree to a move to Belgrade proved to be the easy part; the real challenge was getting his club KK Bosna to sign off on the transfer. Danilović wasn't under a professional contract with the club, but according to Yugoslav Basketball Federation (KSJ) rules, being a youth system prospect he needed his club's permission to complete the move. In Danilović's own words: "The Bosna people weren't too keen on me at all while I was there and they even planned on sending me out on loans to other Sarajevo-area clubs, which I didn't want at all. But then Vujošević started sniffing around, and they suddenly wanted to keep me. Also, Bosna's club president Mirza Delibašić and Partizan's vice-president Dragan Kićanović were good friends from their playing days so that created additional awkwardness and the whole thing dragged out for a while".〔 Since Bosna didn't seem willing to let him go, by summer 1986 Danilović and Partizan decided to act unilaterally as the player moved to Belgrade knowing full well he'd have to sit out a year before taking part in official competitions. The move marked the beginning of a long friendship and professional relationship between Danilović and Vujošević with the 28-year-old coach initially acting as mentor to the 16-year-old player. By now Vujošević also moved up in the Partizan hierarchy, becoming head coach in place of Vladislav Lučić while young Danilović trained with the first team as well as individually. Faced with the unfortunate situation, Danilović could only practice with Partizan, which he did vigorously and devotedly up to 7 or 8 hours per day. He later said that it wasn't until his arrival at Partizan that he started training seriously. His living arrangements were provided by the club; they put him up in a room at the JNA Stadium that he shared with teammate Oliver Popović before moving to Hotel Putnik in New Belgrade for a short time and eventually getting his own apartment in Blok 45 that he also shared with Popović. Furthermore, the club enrolled him in the streamlined technical high school, but unable to make the classes due to long and frequent practices he soon switched to part-time education at the streamlined touristic high school.〔 Discussing his first days in Belgrade and arrival to a new club, Danilović later said: Simultaneously KK Partizan tried to obtain permission to officially register their new player while Bosna for their part launched a process against the player with KSJ, which ruled in their favour, and young Danilović had another year added to his ban from playing competitive basketball for any age group within Partizan's system. Faced with new developments over the length of his ban, in the summer of 1987, 17-year-old Danilović moved to Cookeville, Tennessee where he enrolled at Cookeville High School, however only seven months later he went back to Belgrade. After coming back from the United States, Danilović got included in the Yugoslavia under-18 national team that competed at the European under-18 Championship on home soil in Titov Vrbas and Srbobran. Coached by his mentor Vujošević and playing alongside promising Yugoslav juniors Arijan Komazec, Žan Tabak, Rastko Cvetković, etc., Danilović led the team to the gold medal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Predrag Danilović」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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