{"id":6203,"date":"2019-07-04T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/?page_id=6203"},"modified":"2019-07-04T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:01:58","slug":"serbia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/people\/distinctions\/stars-of-the-past\/serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6201 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/serbiaflag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 40px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00974a;\">Dragoslav Velovic (1943-2016)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Dragoslav Velovic<\/strong> \u2013 \u201c Vele\u201d was born on 24.1.1943. and died on 24.1.2016.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6200 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/vele-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/vele-172x300.jpg 172w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/vele-241x420.jpg 241w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/vele.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><br \/>\nHe started to play bridge in 1966, and very soon become an important player in former Yugoslavia. He will be remembered as one of the best in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. He achieved the title of Bridge Grandmaster.<\/p>\n<p>He was a regular member of the Yugoslav national team, including playing in the 34<sup>th<\/sup> European team championships in Lausanne 1979, Balkan championships and qualified for the Olympiad.<br \/>\nHis most important achievements were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EBL Simultaneous pairs 4<sup>th<\/sup> prize 1983,<\/li>\n<li>EBL Simultaneous pairs heat winner 1978 and 1979 (10<sup>th<\/sup> out of 1374 pairs in Europe),<\/li>\n<li>Team and Pairs champion of Yugoslavia,<\/li>\n<li>Several titles in Pairs and Teams competitions at open tournaments in Bled, Pula, Portoroz and Porec and Venice.<\/li>\n<li>He was Yugoslavia Preferans champion in 1995 and was very good chess player.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He still holds the record for the number of wins in the Belgrade championships.<br \/>\nHe played for several teams &#8211; Simod Italy, BTKB Yugoslavia, AS Serbia.<br \/>\nHe was famous for his defensive tactics, and his plays are still remembered and discussed among bridge players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragoslav Velovic (1943-2016) Dragoslav Velovic \u2013 \u201c Vele\u201d was born on 24.1.1943. and died on 24.1.2016. He started to play bridge in 1966, and very soon become an important player in former Yugoslavia. He will be remembered as one of the best in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. He achieved the title of Bridge Grandmaster. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":4839,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6203","page","type-page","status-publish"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6203\/revisions\/6208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}