By acclamation, the world's best basketball coach outside of the US (probably anywhere) is Zeljko Obradovic, some kind of Super-Belichick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGCEVGcTnJA … Obradovic is often talked up in the press by the Serbian Greg Popovich (think of also of Mike Krzyzewski)
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East Europeans are also overrepresented as NFL players: for example America's tiny Lithuanian-American community produced Dick Butkus and Johnny Unitas. But their tendency to rise to positions of leadership is really striking: East Europeans are really, really tough
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I had no idea that Shula was a Magyar but it makes sense now.
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That Pittsburgh area produced a lot of good Slav nfl talent.
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The real owner of the NFL? First name Eduard.
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Pete Carroll at Seattle is Irish/Croatian
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