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CROATIAN BASKETBALL AS A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE 1990s

The Croatian National Basketball Team developed out of the well-known Yugoslav basketball school, and the newly-founded national team was the continuation of this school. The team enjoyed significant sporting success from its founding in 1991 to 1995. Events related to Croatian basketball in the 1990s are not only significant in the sporting sense, but in the sociological sense as well, and it shall serve in this paper as a framework for an analysis of national identity as a social phenomenon. Two cases have been selected as determinant points of our analysis: winning the silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and winning the bronze medal at FIBA EuroBasket 1995 in Athens.

basketball, Croatian society, national identity

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