Marko Marinović

Marko Marinović ( Serbian Cyrillic Марко Мариновић; born March 15, 1983 in Čačak, SR Serbia) is a Serbian professional basketball player who has successfully played for clubs in his home country and in Spain. As the Serbian- Montenegrin player selection Marinović won the Universiade 2003 and participated in the World Cup finals in 2006. With the Spanish club from Valencia he won the Eurocup 2009/10. Later he played for the German final opponent ALBA Berlin as well as in Russia and Bulgaria. Since 2013 he plays in Serbia.

Career

Marinović first played until 2004 for his native basketball club from Čačak. As a youth player he participated selection for the Serbian- Montenegrin U20 selection along with Nenad Krstic and Blagota Sekulic at the European Junior Championships in 2002. In 2003 he was for the former Serbia and Montenegro Universiade champion in Daegu. In 2004 he moved to Belgrade and was with FMP Železnik KK under the then sponsors names reflex Serb- Montenegrin Cup Winners 2005 and Adriatic League Champions 2006. Moreover, he took part with the senior national team at the FIBA World Championship in Japan in 2006, where one later in the second round against the world champion Spain was eliminated. His Serbian compatriot Svetislav Pešić, in his coach Akasvayu Girona in the season 2006/ 07, then took him to Spain in the ACB league. With Girona, he won the 2007 Euro Challenge, which was then played as FIBA EuroCup. In the season after he played for league rivals in Menorca, before returning for season 2008/ 09 to Belgrade, this time to Red Star, who were trained in that season of Svetislav Pešić. With Red Star he was Vice 2009 in each league and cup behind the local competitors KK Partizan Belgrade.

For the 2009/10 season Marinović returned to the ACB league back to Spain and in 2010 with Power Electronics Valencia ULEB Eurocup winner in the final against Alba Berlin. The defeated opponent in the final with the Montenegrin coach Luka Pavićević finally steered him to the following season to Berlin, where he played together with the derived also from Čačak Tadija Dragicevic. Following a moderate course of the season Pavićević was dismissed and his successor Muli cat urine came Marinovic hardly used, so he joined the Russian basketball league. Both with his new club Krasnye Krylia from Samara as well as with BK Yenisei from Krasnoyarsk in the following season 2011/12 he was able to celebrate any special achievements in the Russian PBL and the supranational VTB United League. In the 2012/13 season Marinović then played in Bulgaria, where he reached with Levski Sofia both the national runner-up as well as the runner-up in the Balkan League ( BIBL ). The final match of the supranational BIBL lost Levski with former Bundesliga players Marinović, Mladen Pantić (both ALBA ) and Nemanja Protić (EWE Baskets Oldenburg ) against Hapoel Gilboa Galil, whose protagonists Rakim Sanders and Jamar Smith then moved on to the German champions Brose Baskets in the German Bundesliga. In the 2013/14 season Marinović returned to his Serbian homeland where he in addition to the national championship in the international competitions ABA League and Eurocup 2013/14 competes with KK Radnički Kragujevac.