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Enzo Sovitti (1926 – 1969) was an 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, Sovitti is mostly unknown today. He is credited with making Zadar from a small Dalamtian club into "a European basketball giant." Enzo Sovitti is credited with discovering some of the greatest basketball talents in Croatia. He is said to have made "an immeasurable contribution to the development of Zadar and Croatian basketball, and his name has permanent place among the biggest names in [Croatian] and European basketball."