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Radisav Ćurčić

Radisav Ćurčić is a Serbian-Israeli former basketball center who played for Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem and won the 1990 world title with Yugoslavia.

born 1965Center for Maccabi Tel Aviv1990 world title with Yugoslavia1999 Israeli league MVPThe pizza affair

Born: 26 September 1965, Čačak
Occupation: basketball player

Radisav Ćurčić was born in 1965 in Čačak

Ćurčić was born on September 26, 1965, in Čačak, Serbia, and grew up there. He played the center position and holds Israeli citizenship.

He played for Olimpija Ljubljana from 1987 and moved to Udine in Italy in the middle of the 1991/1992 season. In 1990 he won a gold medal with Yugoslavia at the FIBA World Championship in Argentina. In 1992/1993 he played 20 games for the Dallas Mavericks until he was injured, then joined Dinamo Sassari.

He signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1994 and won 2 league titles there. Early in the 1995/1996 season he hit reporter Eli Sahar and later had to pay him damages. He then played for Tuborg in Turkey.

In 1997 he joined Hapoel Jerusalem and was named league MVP in 1999. Before the 1999 finals he met Maccabi manager Moni Fanan, an episode called the pizza affair. After a season at Fenerbahçe he returned to Maccabi, won the SuproLeague in 2001, and retired in 2002 before moving back to Serbia.