Enzo Sovitti

Enzo Sovitti (1926 – 1969) was a Dalmatian Italian-Yugoslav basketball player and coach. Sovitti discovered several basketball talents, such as Krešimir Ćosić, who was launched by Sovitti at fourteen years old in 1962. Although he is considered one of the legends of KK Zadar,

After winning the 1965 league with Zadar, he moved to Split in 1966, which was interested in his "skills as a coach and talent scout." He coached Split until his death, and while he didn't win any titles, the players discovered by Sovitti granted Split to become highly successful in the following years, after his demise. Sovitti had been sick for some years but didn't heed his symptoms. He fell ill during the match Jugoplastika-Olimpija Ljubljana on 9 February 1969 and was carried to the hospital, where he died a few hours later. He was 43 years old.