Svetislav Pešić
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Svetislav Pešić (Светислав Пешић) (born August 28, 1949 in Novi Sad, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is former Serbian professional basketball player and a present day Serbian basketball coach.
As a player of KK Bosna, Pešić won the European Champions Cup in season 1978/79.
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[edit] Coaching career
| Medal record | |||
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Competitor for  Germany |
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| European Championships | |||
| Gold | 1993 Germany | Germany | |
Competitor for  Yugoslavia |
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| European Championships | |||
| Gold | 2001 Turkey | Yugoslavia | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 2002 USA | Yugoslavia | |
Pešić is also one of the most successful European basketball coaches.
He led a Yugoslavia junior team that featured future international stars Vlade Divac, Sasha Djordjević, Toni Kukoč, and Dino Radja to victory in the 1987 FIBA World Junior Championship (later split into separate under-19 and under-21 events), defeating the USA twice during the tournament.[1] With the Yugoslavia senior side, Pešić won the 2002 FIBA World Championship held in Indianapolis and Eurobasket 2001 (organized by Turkey), and he also won Eurobasket 1993 (organized by Germany) as head coach of Germany.
At the club level, Pešić won the triple crown in 2003 with FC Barcelona.
- 1982-1987 Bosna Sarajevo
- 1987-1993 Germany national team
- 1993-2000 ALBA Berlin
- 2000-2002 FR Yugoslavia
- 2001-2002 RheinEnergie Köln
- 2002-2004 FC Barcelona
- 2004-2006 Lottomatica Roma
- 2006-2007 Akasvayu Girona
- 2007-2008 Dinamo Moscow
[edit] Honors
Player:
- 1977/78 Yugoslav league
- 1978/79 European Champions Cup
Coach:
Domestic and continental clubs:
- 1983 Yugoslav league
- 1984 Yugoslav cup
- 1995 Korac Cup
- 1997-2000 German league
- 1997 and 1999 German national cups
- 2003 Euroleague, ACB and Copa del Rey
- 2004 ACB winner
- 2007 EuroCup
International:
- 1987 FIBA Junior World Championship
- 1993 Eurobasket
- 2001 Eurobasket
- 2002 FIBA World Championship
[edit] Personal Information
Pešić possesses a Germany citizenship. His son, Marko, is also an acclaimed professional basketball player.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Woolf, Alexander (2002). "Sarajevo Airport: Prisoners of War", Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure. New York: Warner Books, pp. 90-107. ISBN 0-446-52601-0.
[edit] External links
- Profile @ACB.com
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