Milan Gurović

Milan Gurović playing for KK Crvena Zvezda

Milan Gurović (born June 17, 1975, in Novi Sad, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian professional basketball player, currently playing for Prokom Trefl Sopot from Poland. (previously for Red Star Belgrade).

He was the best scorer and player of the ULEB Cup during seasons 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 while playing for Red Star Belgrade. He has won the gold metal in the 2001 European Championship and in the 2002 FIBA World Championship as a member of the Yugoslavian National Basketball Team. Currently, he is captain of the Serbian National Basketball Team. Zoran Slavnic, the coach of the national team of Serbia invited Gurovic to play for his country in the 2007 European Championship.

Gurović, a regular member of the FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro national team, turned out for many clubs all over Europe during his career.

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In addition to his native country Serbia, he also has Greek citizenship, which he obtained for administrative reasons -by claiming being of Hellenic ancestry- in order to be able to play without EU restrictions in the Greek league like numerous other Serbian players such as Dragan Tarlać, Predrag Stojaković, Marko Jarić, and Radoslav Nesterović. At the time (late 1990s), Gurović played for Peristeri BC where he started his basketball career. In order to get the citizenship, in the eyes of Greek administration he had to "change" his last name and thus competed under the name Milan Malatras while in Greece.

While playing for KK Partizan Gurović was not let in Croatia to play a game because of his tattoo of WW2 Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović on his shoulder. Above that tattoo, he has a tattooed eagle.

As published [1] by Serbian daily Kurir on July 25, 2007, Biljana Srbljanović called him "a tattooed fool" in her exchange with an adviser to President of Serbia at her blog. Asked by a journalist who informed him about the blog entry, Gurović responded: "For her information, that 'tattooed fool' speaks, besides Serbian, three foreign languages. I know who this writer is and feel very sorry for her. Women in her age can be foolish sometimes if they don't get their portion of cock in the morning. She must've awoken unfucked."

Before joining KK Red Star he was a member of their arch rivals KK Partizan. Because of this he became main target for Parizan fans, Grobari, who strongly supported him during Croatian ban. This culminated during final of Serbian league's playoff in 2007, when Grobari chanted insults and provocations from the stands targeting Milan's wife, children and parents.^[1] Milan responded and in TV interview said that "Grobari are cattle".^[2] In the second game, when Red Star were hosts, incidents occured on the stands between Red Star fans Delije and police. Gurović tried to calm Red Star supporters and to defend them from police. Delije chanted "You are Zvezda's chetnik Milan" (Serbian : "Ti si Zvezdin Četnik Milane") and Gurović cried. ^[3] In the third game Grobari used Milan's tears as provocation. They sang from the stands popular Serbian turbo-folk song "Obriši suze mala moja" (English : Don't cry my baby). ^[4] Partizan won series 3-1 and became Serbian champions.

In course of Polish Basketball League 2008 Finals Milan Gurović, in game 4 got involved in an infamous brawl between him and the other players from opposite team - Iwo Kitzinger and Thomas Kelati. After the incident authorities of the DBE took the decision that makred him cause of the fight and Milan has been suspended for game 5. He was also fined by 20.000 PLN (about 8000 Euros).

v • d • e FR Yugoslavia squad - 2002 FIBA World Championship Champions - Gold medal

4 Bodiroga \| 5 Koturović \| 6 Čabarkapa \| 7 Rakočević \| 8 Stojaković \| 9 Radmanović \| 10 Jarić \| 11 Drobnjak \| 12 Divac \| 13 Vujanić \| 14 Tomašević \| 15 Gurović \| Coach: Pešić