For years, Paspalj was an automatic choice for Yugoslavia\'s senior national team, representing his country in one FIBA World Cup, two Olympics, and four EuroBaskets. He earned an All-EuroBasket Team selection in 1989.\n', '

Paspalj\'s forester father Jovan moved from a small village on the slopes of Kozara in Bosanska Krajina to Pljevlja on business as he dealt in lumber trade. Once there he married a local woman, Mileva, and remained. Their first child, son Darko, was born in 1961, five years before Žarko was born in 1966.\n', '

During the mid-1970s, when young Žarko was ten years old, his father\'s job requirements moved the family to Titograd. Žarko took up basketball and soon established himself in the youth system of KK Budućnost.\n', '

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