Duško Guslov, former Red Star player, former volleyball national team player, long-time president of the Spartak men’s volleyball club, and former city manager of Subotica, passed away yesterday at the age of 76. years, after a long and serious illness.

Guslov spent six decades in volleyball, first as a player, then as a sports worker. He started playing volleyball in 1962. in the “Jovan Jovanović Zmaj” Elementary School, and the generation of young players born between 1946 and and 1949. In 1966, which included Guslov, she was the winner of the first tournament of cities in Yugoslavia. .

As a junior, he played for the Yugoslav junior national team, and after graduating from high school, in 1968. In 2009, he went to study in Belgrade (he graduated from the Faculty of Mining and Geology) where he continued his successful playing career in OK Crvena Zvezda.

Four years later, he returned to Subotica and Spartak. He was part of the famous Spartak team that won the Yugoslav championship title in 1975. and a year later third place in the European Champions Cup. He was also a senior national team player, and ended his playing career at Spartak in 1978. .

In the early 1990s, he was the vice president of the Club, and when they merged in 1993, In 1996, when the two sections of the Spartak Volleyball Club were divided into a men’s and women’s club, he became the president of the Spartak Men’s Volleyball Club and held that position until 1996. .

Since 1996. until 2008. In 2011, he was the vice president of the Spartak Water Polo Club, and that was the time of the greatest sporting success of men’s water polo in Subotica. Since May 2009. In 2018, he was again the president of the Spartak Men’s Volleyball Club and is credited with returning men’s volleyball in Subotica to the very top of Serbian volleyball sport, as well as entering the international scene after more than 45 years, and winning the Balkan Cup last year in Turkey.