Damir Markota Omerhodžić, known as Šveđo (born December 26, 1985, in Sarajevo), is a Croatian/Swedish professional basketball player at the forward position. He is 2.09 m (6 ft 10 ¼) tall and 118 kg (260 lbs.) in weight. His style of play has been compared to that of Vladimir Radmanović. He is currently with Iurbentia Bilbao, in the Spanish first division.
Markota, born in the former Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Yugoslavia, esc...
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Damir Markota Omerhodžić, known as Šveđo (born December 26, 1985, in Sarajevo), is a Croatian/Swedish professional basketball player at the forward position. He is 2.09 m (6 ft 10 ¼) tall and 118 kg (260 lbs.) in weight. His style of play has been compared to that of Vladimir Radmanović. He is currently with Iurbentia Bilbao, in the Spanish first division.
Markota, born in the former Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Yugoslavia, escaped from Bosnia during the war and settled in Sweden, where he began to practice basketball. He played together with Maciej Lampe in Stockholm, until moving to Croatia when he was fourteen, after being invited to play in the Croatian league. Markota signed with KK Cibona, but was loaned to Zabok and Karlovac Šanac until the end of 2002-03. Subsequently, he received Croatian citizenship (holding Swedish as well), declining an offer to play for the Swedish national basketball team.
Markota was known as a party animal with a bad attitude when he...
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