The son of a famous Croatian basketball player makes his debut for Serbia

Ivo Nakić (58) is from Rijeka, who in the eighties was a member of Cibona, with whom he became European champion twice in a row. He was also the European champion with Partizan. He met his wife Zorica in Belgrade, and in 2001 he had a son, Mari (23).

He is now in Partizan, and soon he will make his debut for Serbia, which is visiting Denmark on November 21 in the Eurobasket qualifiers, and three days later Denmark will arrive in Serbia.

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– Nakić officially received Fiba’s license this week and it is now complete. He has an injury, but we called him – said Svetislav Pešić, coach of the Serbian national basketball team.

Mario played in the junior categories for Zemun and Partizan, and at the age of 14 he moved to Real Madrid. In the “royal club” he won the Euroleague in the junior competition and became the MVP of the tournament. Then he played for Ostend under Dario Gjergja and then in Andorra. He then went to Igoke, from where he was brought by Partizan.