Danilo Ikodinović

Danilo “Dača” Ikodinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Дача Икодиновић, born 4 October 1976) is a Serbian former professional water polo player who played on the bronze medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics (with Yugoslavia) and the silver medal squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics (with Serbia and Montenegro). He received a Golden Badge, award for the best athlete in Serbia and Montenegro.

Danilo Ikodinović
Personal information
Born (1976-10-04) 4 October 1976
Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Medal record
Men's Water Polo
Representing  Serbia and Montenegro
 Serbia
Men's Water Polo
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2004 Athens
Bronze medal – third place2000 Sydney
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2005 Montreal
Silver medal – second place2001 Fukuoka
Bronze medal – third place1998 Perth
Bronze medal – third place2003 Barcelona
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2001 Budapest
Gold medal – first place 2003 Kranj
Gold medal – first place 2006 Belgrade
Silver medal – second place 1997 Seville
FINA World League
Gold medal – first place 2005 Belgrade
Gold medal – first place 2006 Athens
Gold medal – first place 2008 Genova
Silver medal – second place 2004 Long Beach
FINA World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2006 Budapest
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Belgrade
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place1997 Bari

Club career

He spent the 2005/06 season playing for VK Partizan. He appeared for the Serbian national water polo team in 304 matches, scoring 299 goals. In 2006, he appeared as a model in an underwear campaign for ExtremeIntimo. During the summer of 2006 he signed for Russian club Sintez Kazan. In his first season in Sintez Kazan, Ikodinović led the team to 2006/07 LEN Cup trophy[1] as well as the Russian league title. In late March 2008, he reached an agreement with PVK Jadran to play for them in 2008/09 season.[2]

Clubs he played for

Honours

Club

VK Partizan

  • National Championship of Yugoslavia (1): 1994–95
  • National Cup of Yugoslavia (3): 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95
  • LEN Cup (1): 1997–98

Pro Recco

Sintez Kazan

  • National Championship of Russia (1): 2006–07
  • LEN Cup (1): 2006–07

Individual

Politics

Ikodinović endorsed the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) for the 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election, however, later he became a strong critic of SNS and its leader Aleksandar Vučić.[3] On 17 March 2021, Ikodinović joined the People's Party (NS) and became the president of its Sports Committee.[4]

Personal

In 2000, Ikodinović married his girlfriend Anja who later that year gave birth to their daughter Andrea. The couple divorced in 2003.[5]

For a few months during 2004, he dated professional karate fighter Snežana Perić. The relationship was high-profile with coverage in Serbian tabloids and lifestyle magazines.[6]

Later that year Ikodinović began a relationship with Serbian pop singer Nataša Bekvalac. Once the relationship became public on New Year's 2005[7] it inspired even more press coverage. In July 2006 the couple married in Sremski Karlovci. They have a daughter named Hana who was born in March 2007 while Danilo was playing at the World Championships in Melbourne.[8] The couple divorced in January 2011.

Motorcycle accident

On Friday, 27 June 2008, around 8:20pm, Ikodinović was involved in a traffic accident while riding his Yamaha R1 motorcycle on the Zrenjanin-Novi Sad regional road near the town of Kać. The thirty-one-year-old professional water polo player was transferred to intensive care in Novi Sad where he got immediately taken in for surgery that ended up lasting almost eight hours. As a result, his condition was stabilized, but remained critical.[9] Reportedly, of the numerous injuries he sustained, the heaviest trauma occurred on his right arm with severe tearing of blood vessels (nerves and arteries).[10]

The next day, in the evening hours of 28 June 2008, almost twenty four hours following the accident, he underwent another vascular surgery on his arm.[11] His condition has since improved.

Investigation of the crash finished by mid November 2008, determining that Ikodinović had been driving at a speed of 173 km/h while having blood alcohol content of over 2 per mil (considered to be the medium level of alcoholic intoxication) when he rear-ended the Yugo driven by Pajica Dejanović that had just begun overtaking a tractor vehicle driven by Miroslav Kukić.[12]

Ikodinović was charged with violating traffic safety. His case went before a judge in Novi Sad Municipal Court on 5 March 2009[13] where he was found guilty of causing the accident and got ordered to pay RSD70,000 (around €760 according to the exchange rate at the time). He also received an eight-month ban on driving a motorcycle.[14] District public persecutor submitted an appeal on the court's decision due to not being satisfied with the amount of the fine.

The damages part of the case was settled out of court on 26 May 2009, which is when Ikodinović paid a sum to Pajica Dejanović that was in some media outlets reported to be €6,000.

See also

References
  1. Vaterpolo: Ruski Sintez osvojio LEN kup, MTS Mondo, May 24, 2007
  2. Dača na Jadranu, Večernje novosti, March 31, 2008
  3. "Ikodinović o podršci Vučićevoj listi: Ispao sam pi*da!". NOVA portal. 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  4. "Ikodinović i Koroman u Odboru Narodne stranke za sport". N1 (in Serbian). 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  5. Teško nam je, Kurir, June 30, 2008 Archived May 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. Snežana Perić predala meč Dači Ikodinoviću!, Svet, June 18, 2004
  7. Odlepio čovek!, Kurir, January 8, 2005
  8. Hana više voli Natašu, Blic, April 30, 2007
  9. Najvažniji meč Dače Ikodinovića, MTS Mondo, June 28, 2008 Archived June 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  10. Borba za život Danila Ikodinovića, Blic, June 29, 2008
  11. Ikodinović ponovo operisan, B92, June 28, 2008
  12. Završena istraga nesreće kod Kaća - Ikodinović vozio 173 na sat, Blic, November 17, 2008 Archived January 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  13. Dača Ikodinović pred sudom 5. marta, MTS Mondo, January 28, 2009 Archived January 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  14. Danilo Ikodinović: Sve ono o čemu sam ćutao..., Story, June 2009 Archived 2009-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
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