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Krešimir Ćosić (November 26, 1948 - March 25, 1995) was a professional basketball player from Croatia.
He was born in Zagreb and raised in Zadar. He was the first foreign player to earn All-America honors by United Press International, garnering them in 1972 and 1973. He played for Brigham Young University from 1971 to 1973. After his college career, he rejected several professional offers and returned home to Croatia.
Ćosić played in four Olympic Games: 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980 in Moscow when he led his team to the gold medal. He previously led Yugoslavia to a pair of World Championship gold medals in 1970 and 1978.
Following his playing days, he turned to coaching, and led the former Yugoslav team to a silver medal in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Ćosić became only the third international player ever elected to the world's Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of basketball.
In the years following basketball he worked in the USA as a Croatian diplomat at the Embassy in Washington, D.C.
External link
- Krešimir Ćosić (http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/Cosic.htm)
Disambiguation
Krešimir Ćosić is also a Croatian politician who attained a seat in the Parliament on the party list of Croatian Democratic Union at the 2003 parliamentary election. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Zagreb, and later obtained a doctorate. As of 2005 he is the leader of the Croatian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.