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Svetislav Pešić
FC Bayern Munich
PositionHead coach
LeagueGerman League
Euroleague
Personal information
Born (1949-08-28) August 28, 1949 (age 75)
Pirot, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Listed height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Career information
NBA draft1971: undrafted
Playing career1967–1979
Coaching career1982–present
Career history
As player:
1967–1971Partizan
1971–1979Bosna
As coach:
1982–1987Bosna
1987–1993Germany
1993–2000Alba Berlin
2000–2002FR Yugoslavia
2001–2002RheinEnergie Köln
2002–2004FC Barcelona
2004–2006Lottomatica Roma
2006–2007Akasvayu Girona
2007–2008Dynamo Moscow
2008–2009Crvena Zvezda
2010–2011Power Electronics Valencia
2012Germany
2011–2012Crvena Zvezda
2012–presentBayern Munich
Medals
Men's Basketball
Head Coach for  Yugoslavia
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2002 USA Team
EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 2001 Turkey Team
Head Coach for  Germany
EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 1993 Germany Team
Head Coach for  Yugoslavia
U19 World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1987 Italy Team
European Championship for Cadets
Gold medal – first place 1985 Bulgaria Team

Svetislav Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светислав Пешић, born August 28, 1949) is a Serbian former professional basketball player and current basketball head coach of Bayern Munich.

Playing career

As a player of Bosna, Pešić won the European Champions Cup (Euroleague) in 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]

In November 2012, Pešić was named a head coach of the German team Bayern München.[3] On 28 February 2015, he extended his contract with the club until 2017.[4]

Honors

As player:

As head coach:

Personal information

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

Notes and references

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Power Electronics makes Pesic new boss!
  3. ^ "Svetislav Pesic tabbed as new coach for Bayern Munich". court-side.com. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Pešić vodi Bajern do 2017". b92.net (in Serbian). 28 February 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
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