Svetislav Pešić

Svetislav Pešić

FC Bayern Munich
Head coach
Personal information
Born	(1949-08-28) August 28, 1949 Novi Sad, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (196 cm)
Career information
Pro playing career	1967–1979
Coaching career	1982–present
Career history
As player:
1967–1971	Partizan Belgrade
1971–1979	Bosna Sarajevo
As coach:
1982–1987	Bosna Sarajevo
1987–1993	Germany
1993–2000	ALBA Berlin
2000–2002	FR Yugoslavia
2001–2002	RheinEnergie Köln
2002–2004	FC Barcelona
2004–2006	Virtus Roma (Lottomatica)
2006–2007	CB Girona (Akasvayu)
2007–2008	Dinamo Moscow
2008–2009	Red Star Belgrade
2010–2011	Valencia BC (Power Electronics)
2012	Germany
2011–2012	Red Star Belgrade
2012–present	Bayern Munich
Medals Competitor for  Germany FIBA EuroBasket Gold 1993 Germany As coach Competitor for  Yugoslavia FIBA EuroBasket Gold 2001 Turkey As coach FIBA World Cup Gold 2002 USA As coach

Svetislav Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светислав Пешић) (born August 28, 1949 in Novi Sad, Serbia, is a former Serbian professional basketball player, and a present day Serbian basketball coach of Bayern Munich.

Playing career

As a player of Bosna, Pešić won the European Champions Cup (Euroleague) in the season 1978-79. He played for Partizan (1967–1971), and Bosna (1971–1979).

Coaching career

Pešić is also one of the most successful European basketball coaches.

He led a Yugoslavia junior team, that featured future international stars Vlade Divac, Saša Đorđević, Toni Kukoč, and Dino Rađa 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.

On 16 November 2010, he was named the coach of Power Electronics Valencia for the rest of the 2010-11 season.^[2]

Honors

As player:

• Yugoslav League Champion: 1977-78
• European Champions Cup (Euroleague) Champion: 1978-79

As head coach:

• National Championships:
  • Yugoslav League Champion: (1983)
  • 4x German League Champion: (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
  • 2x Spanish League Champion: (2003, 2004)
• National Cups:
  • Yugoslav Cup Champion: (1984)
  • 2x German Cup Champion: (1997, 1999)
  • Spanish King's Cup Champion: (2003)
• European Cups:
  • Korać Cup Champion: (1995)
  • Euroleague Champion: (2003)
  • FIBA EuroCup Champion: (2007)
• National Team:
  • FIBA Under-19 World Championship 1 ! Gold: (1987)
  • EuroBasket 1 ! Gold: (1993)
  • EuroBasket 1 ! Gold: (2001)
  • FIBA World Championship 1 ! Gold: (2002)

Personal information

Along with Serbian, Pešić also possesses German citizenship. His son, Marko, is a professional basketball player, and an occasional member of the German national team. Jan Jagla is his son in law.

Notes and references

External links

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Željko Obradović	FIBA World Championship Winning Coach 2002	Succeeded by Pepu Hernández
Preceded by Dušan Ivković Bogdan Tanjević	EuroBasket Winning Coach 1993 2001	Succeeded by Dušan Ivković Antanas Sireika
Preceded by Željko Obradović	Euroleague Winning Coach 2003	Succeeded by Pini Gershon