Background
He was born in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He was born in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He appeared in the national team of former Yugoslavia in the early nineties at the 1990 Goodwill Games, the second games which took place in Seattle, United States, along with Dražen Petrović, Toni Kukoč, Žarko Paspalj, Dino Rađa other great stars of Yugoslavian basketball. Later, in the first appearance of Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team, in EuroBasket 1993, he was the Top Scorer of the tournament averaging 25 (246) points per game:
versus Latvia he scored 36 points,
versus
Estonia he scored 29 points,
versus
Croatia he scored 28 points,
versus Sweden he scored 26 points.
His mother Ševka Bajraktarević (1934 – 30 September 2013) was the older sister of three famous singers: Silvana Armenulić, Mirsada Bajraktarević and Dina Bajraktarević. Bilalović died July 2003 during his vacation to the Croatian coastal town of Makarska from previously diagnosed heart condition.
