Dejan Bodiroga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dejan Bodiroga

basketball player

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1973

Place of Birth: Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, Serbia

Profession: basketball player

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Dejan Bodiroga

  • Dejan Bodiroga (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ????????; born 2 March 1973) is a Serbian basketball executive and former professional basketball player.
  • Listed at 2.05 m (6 ft.
  • 8 ?3/4 in.) and 110 kg (243 lbs.), he mainly played at the small forward position, but he could also play point forward, and both guard positions. A EuroLeague icon of the early part of the 2000s, Bodiroga proved himself to be a symbol of basketball excellence, by lifting consecutive EuroLeague trophies, with Panathinaikos and FC Barcelona, as he earned the EuroLeague Final Four MVP award both times.
  • Among many other honors, Bodiroga was named to the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors and the EuroLeague 2000–10 All-Decade Team. Bodiroga led the senior FR Yugoslavian national team to two FIBA World Cup titles, in 1998 and 2002, earning MVP honors in the former.
  • In addition, he won three EuroBasket gold medals (1995, 1997, 2001), and a bronze (1999), as well as an Olympic silver medal in 1996.

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