Aco Petrović (basketball)

Aleksandar "Aco" Petrović (serb. Ацо Петровић; October 14, 1959 – December 1, 2014) was a Serbian basketball coach from Požega, Serbia. He died on 1 December 2014 at the age of 55.^[1]

Career

Club Career

• 1993-1997 KK Radnički Beograd
• 1997–1998 KK Crvena zvezda (assistant coach)- champions of Yugoslavia
• 1998–2003 KK FMP- Yugoslavian Cup final
• 2003–2004 KK Hemofarm-Yugoslavian Cup final
• 2004 FIBA Europe League All Star Day, Kiev
• 2004–2007 BC Lokomotiv Rostov (2005 FIBA Europe Cup finalist)
• 2005 FIBA Europe League All Star Day, Cyprus
• 2007–2009 UNICS Kazan (3rd in Superleague (2009); Russian Cup winner (2009); ULEB Cup Final Eight (2008))
• 2009 KK Crvena zvezda ^[2]
• 2010 BC Žalgiris ^[3][4]
• 2011 KK FMP ^[5]
• 2011 BC Azovmash ^[6]
• 2012–2013 UNICS Kazan ^[7]

National Team

• 2001 European Championship – Yugoslavia (assistant for coach Svetislav Pešić’), gold medals;
• 2002 FIBA World Championship – Yugoslavia (assistant for coach Svetislav Pešić’), gold medals;
• 2008 FIBA World Championship – Serbia (assistant for coach Dušan Ivković);
• 2009 European Championship – Serbia (assistant for coach Dušan Ivković), silver medals;

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