Pro-government says Crvena zvezda mourns former player and club official Miroslav Prelević

Pro-government says Crvena zvezda mourns former player and club official Miroslav Prelević
Miroslav “Miško” Prelević, a former Crvena zvezda basketball player and club official, died overnight in Belgrade at the age of 89, according to reports. The timing and place of his funeral will be announced later.

Prelević represented Crvena zvezda from 1957 to 1962. He made his debut in the Belgrade derby on April 17, 1957, and went on to play 89 games for the club, scoring 255 points. Reports also noted that younger fans knew him as the father of Branislav Prelević, a prominent figure in Greek club PAOK’s history.

After his playing career, Prelević remained involved with the club. In the 1970s, he served as the team’s technical official during a period that included the 1972 Yugoslav championship and a run to the final of the Radivoj Korać Cup. Two years later, he was part of the organization around the Crvena zvezda side that won the Cup Winners’ Cup—described in the reports as the club’s first and only European trophy.

His work extended beyond Crvena zvezda and basketball. Prelević served on the Yugoslav Basketball Federation’s competition commission and, as an assistant director of the Belgrade Fair, supported numerous sports organizations. In the mid-1990s, he also helped establish the sports weekly As.

The reports presented his legacy as spanning several generations of Serbian and regional sport: first as a player, then as a club contributor and sports organizer, and also through his family connection to PAOK.