Pero Antić

Pero Antic ( Macedonian Перо Антиќ; born July 29, 1982 in Skopje, SR Macedonia ) is a Macedonian professional basketball player. Antic played the next five years in Greece before 2008 played on stations in Serbia and Bulgaria three years in Russia. With BK Spartak from Saint Petersburg he reached the Final Four of the Euro Challenge in the season 2010/11.

Club career

Antic played in his youth for KK Rabotnički in his hometown. In the season 1999/2000 he was also first used in games of the first team. He then spent a year in the United States at a high school, but returned in 2001 back to play in the Greek A1 Ethniki AEK Athens as a professional. In his first season at AEK, in which he was employed as a junior player only sporadically, the first national championship success was achieved in 32 years for the club than you as the main round first in the play-off final series after two opening defeats Olympiakos Piraeus with three consecutive victories low rank, while in 2001/ 02 his games against the Greek national competitors in the second round of the sixteen best teams all lost in the ULEB euro League. Then they lost in 2003 and 2005 national championship final series against the serial champions and local rivals Panathinaikos Athens and was no longer in the ULEB Euro League on the second round of the sixteen best teams out. 2005 Antic moved to the Serbian city Belgrade Red Star, with whom he won the cup competition of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006.

In 2007 he moved to Sofia Bulgarian Lukoil Akademik to PBK, with whom he won the national championship as well as in the ULEB Cup penetrated 2007/ 08 to the last sixteen, which must be considered for the Bulgarian team a great success, where you eliminated against MBK Dynamo Moscow. He subsequently transferred to the Russian league to BK locomotive to Rostov who moved a season later than BK locomotive Kuban Krasnodar. Even during the 2009/10 season he left the club and went back for the rest of the season to Akademik Sofia, with whom he was able to win another Bulgarian Championship. For the season 2010/11 he returned to Russia, playing for BK Spartak Saint Petersburg, which he lost in the semifinals of Euro Challenge calculated against his former club Lokomotiw Kuban and subsequently the match for third place in the extension against hosts Telenet Oostende.

In September 2011, Antic returned to Greece. Olympiakos took the power forward under contract and won in 2012 not only the Greek championship, but also twice the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2012 and 2013., The Greek Cup in 2013 but then went again to the former series champion Panathinaikos Athens. For the 2013/14 season he joined the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks.

National

With the Macedonian national team Antic could qualify for the European Championship finals in Poland in 2009. There would retire in the second round in spite of a victory over the German national basketball team. In the following European Championship finals in 2011 they won after an initial defeat in extra time against the former Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro, the following six games against, among others representatives of the other former republics of Croatia, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Slovenia and the neighboring country of Greece. After another defeat at the end of the second round against the previously undefeated Russians were beaten in the quarter finals, led by Bo McCalebb naturalized the host Lithuania, and was only stopped again in the semifinals of defending champion Spain. In the match for third place then a medal against the Russian national basketball team was narrowly missed.