Svetislav Pešić
Svetislav Pešić ( Serbian Cyrillic Светислав Пешић; born August 28, 1949 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia ) is a German - Serbian basketball coach and former player. Since November 2012, he coached the Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.
Career
As a player Pešić achieved his greatest successes in KK Bosna Sarajevo, with whom he became in 1978 the Yugoslav League and Cup winners and 1979 European Cup Winners ' Cup.
After his career as a player Pešić was in season 1981/82 first sports director at KK Bosna. From 1982 to 1987 he coached the club with which he had already worked as a player. In 1983 he as coach of Yugoslav champion and 1984 Cup winner was. At the same time he trained in those years Yugoslav youth national teams. After previous EM victories was won under his direction in 1987, the U-19 World Basketball Championship. With this triumph, for the first time an American selection was defeated under the same conditions as the defeats of U.S. seniors choosing teams at Basketball World Championships and Olympic games before without the participation of NBA professionals came about.
After these successes the German Basketball Federation signed him as a coach. In this role Pešić led the German basketball team on winning the surprising Eurobasket 1993, the first international title of a German Senior selection.
From 1993 to Pešić was head coach at Alba Berlin. Here he won the Korac Cup, which was also the first international title of a German club team in the second year of his obligation. In addition, ALBA was under his direction in the following years four times German champion and twice Cup winners.
In 2000 Pešić left Berlin and coached the national team of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 2001 simultaneously with the Rhein Energie Cologne. He was with the national team again in 2001 European Champion and 2002 World Champion.
There were other engagements with European top clubs like FC Barcelona (2002-2004), with whom he won the 2003 Triple consisting of championship, national cup and Euro League. He then worked at Lottomatica Rome (2004-2006), Akasvayu Girona ( 2006/ 07), with whom he won the FIBA EuroCup, Dynamo Moscow ( 2007/ 08) and Red Star Belgrade (2008/ 09). From November 2010 was Pešić Coach of ULEB Eurocup winner Valencia Basket Club, with whom he 2010/11 in five games was eliminated in the quarter-finals of ULEB Euro League against national rivals Real Madrid. For the season 2011/12 he returned to the new merger club from Red Star and KK KK FMP Železnik back to Belgrade, which should form a counterpoint to the dominant Serbian series champions KK Partizan Belgrade.
From the summer of 2012 Pešić again took over - for now parallel to his job in Belgrade - the German national team of men as national coach. Following the successful qualification for the European Championship, he extended his contract with the German Basketball Federation not, but entered on 27 November 2012, the successor of Yannis Christopoulos as head coach of FC Bayern Munich, where he received a contract until the end of season. In March 2013 his contract was extended for another two years ahead of schedule.
Others
Pešićs son Marko was also active as a basketball player and played in the German national team. Pešić jun. was also active for the teams of ALBA Berlin and Lottomatica Rome, left by Pešić. were trained.
Successes as a player
- Yugoslavian champion with KK Bosna Sarajevo 1978
- Yugoslav Cup winner with KK Bosna Sarajevo 1978
- European Cup champion with KK Bosna Sarajevo 1979
Success as a coach
- Yugoslavian champion with KK Bosna Sarajevo 1983
- Yugoslav Cup winner with KK Bosna Sarajevo 1984
- World Champion with the Yugoslav Junior 1987
- European Championship with Germany in 1993
- Korac Cup in 1995 with Alba Berlin
- German champion with Alba Berlin, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
- German Cup winner with Alba Berlin 1997, 1999
- European champion in 2001 with Yugoslavia
- World Champion of Yugoslavia 2002
- Spanish Champion, Spanish Cup winner and winner of the Euro League with FC Barcelona in 2003
- Spanish champion with FC Barcelona in 2004