Curated category
Euroscar award winners
- Dirk NowitzkiDirk Werner Nowitzki was born on the 19th of June 1978 in Würzburg, West Germany. He grew up as a very tall child who stood above his peers by a foot or more…
- Pau GasolOn the 6th of July 1980, Pau Gasol Sáez entered the world at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona. His mother Marisa worked there as a medical doctor while his…
- Tony ParkerWilliam Anthony Parker Jr. arrived in the world on the 17th of May 1982, inside a hospital in Bruges, Belgium. His father Tony Parker Sr.
- Toni KukočToni Kukoč grew up in Split, Croatia, where his father played football as a goalkeeper for a lower-ranked local club. Young Toni possessed excellent motor…
- Arvydas SabonisArvydas Romas Sabonis was born on the 19th of December 1964 in Kaunas, Lithuania. He began playing basketball at age 13 while living under Soviet rule.
- Dražen PetrovićIn 1979, a thirteen-year-old boy named Dražen Petrović stepped onto the court of his hometown club Šibenka in Yugoslavia.
- Andrei KirilenkoAndrei Kirilenko was born in the Soviet city of Izhevsk on the 18th of February 1981. The same place that manufactured the AK-47 rifle would later give him…
- Peja StojakovićPredrag Stojaković was born on the 9th of June 1977 in Požega, SR Croatia. His family belonged to an ethnic Serb community within the Socialist Federal…