Dragan Kapičić

Dragan Kapičić
	Kapičić with Crvena zvezda in 1971
Personal information
Born	7 August 1948; Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Died	24 June 2024 (aged 75); Belgrade, Serbia
Nationality	Serbian
Listed height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Listed weight	95 kg (209 lb)
Career information
NBA draft	1970: undrafted
Playing career	1965–1981
Position	Small forward
Number	9, 10
Career history
1965–1977	Crvena zvezda
1977–1981	Saturn Köln
Career highlights and awards
	FIBA Saporta Cup champion (1974); 2× Yugoslav League champion (1969, 1972); German League champion: (1981); 3× Yugoslav Cup winner (1971, 1973, 1975); FIBA European Selection (1970); FIBA Saporta Cup Finals Top Scorer (1974);
Men's basketball
Representing Yugoslavia
FIBA World Cup
EuroBasket
European Under-18 Championship

Dragan Kapičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Капичић; 7 August 1948 – 24 June 2024) was a Serbian professional basketball player and executive.

Club career

Kapičić played with Crvena zvezda, in his hometown of Belgrade, in the Yugoslav First Federal League, from 1965 to 1977. His teammates were Zoran Slavnić, Ljubodrag Simonović, Dragiša Vučinić, and Vladimir Cvetković among others. With them, he won two Yugoslav National League championships, three Yugoslav National Cup titles, and one European-wide secondary level FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (later called FIBA Saporta Cup) championship. He is Crvena zvezda's all-time club leader in total points scored.^[1]

In the late stage of his club career, he played with Saturn Köln of the German League.^[2]

Kapičić played in 169 games with the senior Yugoslavian national team. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics.^[3] With Yugoslavia, he won gold medals at the 1970 FIBA World Championship, and the 1975 EuroBasket.

Kapičić was the President of the Basketball Federation of Serbia, from April 2007 to April 2011.

Kapičić is the son of Jovo Kapičić (1919‒2013), who was a Yugoslav People's Army General and recipient of the Order of the People's Hero.^[4] He married Slobodanka "Beba" Žugić,^[5] a Montenegrin actress. The couple had two sons.

His son Stefan (b. 1978), is an actor who is best known for playing his role of Colossus in Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018). In the 2015 Serbian sports drama We Will Be the World Champions, Kapičić is portrayed by his son Stefan.^[6]

Kapičić died in Belgrade on 24 June 2024, at the age of 75.^[7]

FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (FIBA Saporta Cup) champion: 1 (with Crvena zvezda: 1973–74)
Yugoslav League champion: 2 (with Crvena zvezda: 1968–69, 1971–72)
German League champion: 1 (with Saturn Köln: 1980–81)
Yugoslav Cup winner: 3 (with Crvena zvezda: 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Goran Knežević as President of BFSM	President of the Basketball Federation of Serbia 2007–2011	Succeeded by Dragan Đilas