1. Petar Skansi was a Croatian professional basketball player and coach.
14 Facts About Petar Skansi
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Petar Skansi was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.
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Petar Skansi was a member of the Yugoslavia national team that silver medalled at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Petar Skansi had a political stint as a deputy minister of sports in Croatia.
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Petar Skansi then played with the Italian league club Maxmobili Pesaro, from 1972 to 1973.
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Petar Skansi was a member of the FIBA European Selection in 1971, and he was the EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer in 1972.
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Petar Skansi was a member of the Yugoslav national basketball team.
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Petar Skansi won the gold medal at the 1967 Mediterranean Games.
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The next year Petar Skansi retired as player and continued his career in the city of Split as head coach of the Dalmatian club.
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In summer 1981, having spent the previous four years coaching in various capacities within the Yugoslav national team system, Petar Skansi returned to club coaching by accepting the offer from Victoria Libertas, an ambitious and financially stable club from Pesaro backed by entrepreneur Valter Scavolini who performed the club president role.
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In 1977, after coaching Jugoplastika for a season-and-a-half, thirty-three-year-old Petar Skansi got picked by Aleksandar Nikolic to be the revered coach's assistant for EuroBasket 1977.
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Right after winning the 1978 world title, Nikolic stepped down and his assistant Petar Skansi got the head coaching job ahead of the EuroBasket in Italy.
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From January 2012, until June 2014, Petar Skansi was Deputy Minister of Science, Education and Sports to Zeljko Jovanovic, in the centre-left government of Zoran Milanovic.
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Petar Skansi was married to Damira, with whom he had a daughter, Jana and a son, Luka.