"If all that sports have to offer is fame, and pleasure in it, then this is giving up too much for something that doesn’t attract you that much in the first place."
KrešoSportom za snažnije ja!
sport, radionice, izložbe, nagrade, koncert, turističke ture, gastro & DJ, besplatan sadržaj za sve posjetitelje
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6. - 8. lipnja 2025.!
He stood 6'11". He declined the NBA. He translated the Book of Mormon under Communist surveillance. Then he helped rebuild his country from a diplomat's desk while quietly dying of cancer — and never stopped smiling.
Krešimir Ćosić was the most complete basketball player Europe ever produced. He was also something rarer: a man whose faith, intellect, and warmth outgrew every arena he entered. The Smile is the story of how he became that man — and what it cost him.
Assembled from his unfinished memoirs, recorded recollections, and the memories of those who loved him, this literary memoir traces an extraordinary arc: from a hollow-chested teenager on the Zadar waterfront, to All-American at BYU, to gold medalist in Moscow, to Deputy Ambassador of Croatia in Washington — all while practicing a faith that made him a dissident in his own country, and a legend everywhere else.
What readers are saying
"A rare book — one that makes you feel you have lost someone you never had the chance to meet."
Alex Samuelson
"The basketball is extraordinary, but it is a microcosmos for a greater story. The man behind the game will stay with you long after the last page."
Tracy Dunn
By Ana Ćosić Pajurin · Foreword by Senator Orrin G. Hatch
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