Zoran Čutura

Zoran Čutura (born 12 March 1962 in Zagreb) is a former Croatian basketball player. After ending his professional basketball career he started working as a sports journalist and columnist.

Professional career

Čutura started playing basketball in his hometown Zagreb. His first club was the second division club Industromontaža where he spent three years. In 1981 he joined the Zagreb powerhouse Cibona where Mirko Novosel was starting to build the future European champion team with players like the veteran Krešimir Ćosić, Aleksandar Petrović, Dražen Petrović, Andro Knego, Mihovil Nakić and Branko Vukićević. This team won two back-to-back European Champions Cups in 1985 and 1986. At the 1989 Eurobasket played in front of his hometown crowd Čutura (5.0 ppg) along with Dražen Petrović, Dino Rađa, Žarko Paspalj, Vlade Divac, Predrag Danilović, Toni Kukoč, Jure Zdovc and others took gold.

Čutura's last major tournament was the 1990 World Championship where Yugoslavia were crowned champions. Čutura averaged 4.8 ppg. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Čutura never made a major tournament squad for the Croatia national basketball team.

After basketball After his professional basketball career, Čutura started working as a sports journalist and columnist. In 2008 he won a prize for the best Croatian sports journalist while writing for Jutarnji list.

Personal life

Čutura is married to Gordana Gojnić-Čutura, a former Croatia women's national volleyball team player.

He is the father of Tomislav, a former basketball player at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania and , a professional volleyball player, occasional Croatia women's national volleyball team player and former student of the University of California, Berkeley. While she studied she played for the Golden Bear volleyball team that was a semifinalist at the 2007 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament Final Four, as well as being the 2009 Pac-10 Player of the Year.