Uroš Tripković

Uroš Tripković ( Serbian Cyrillic Урош Трипковић; born September 11, 1986 in Čačak, SR Serbia) is a Serbian professional basketball player. As a teenager, moved Tripković Serbian club KK Partizan the dominant, with whom he won seven league titles and three times the Serbian ABA League until 2009. With the Serbian national team, he was World Cup participant in 2006 and became vice European Champion 2009. Between 2009 and 2012, he played in the Spanish ACB League, before he moved to the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi to Fenerbahçe Ülker, with whom he 2013 won the Turkish Cup competition. Since the 2013/14 season he played for the Italian first division Vanoli Cremona.

Career

Tripković learned the game of basketball in his native city at the KK Borac Čačak, who has already produced World Champion and multiple European champions as Dragan Obradovic Kićanović and Željko. In 2002 he joined as a 16- year-old to KK Partizan in the capital Belgrade, where the above two 've been successful as a player, coach and / or director of sport. In his first season with the dominant Serbian club, he was inducted into individual championship games and won with the club until 2009, the following seven championships of Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia respectively. He also won with Partizan three consecutive ABA League from 2007 to 2009. With the Serb- Montenegrin junior national team he won together with Luka Bogdanovic, Vladimir Micov, Branislav Ratkovica, Novica Veličković and also dating Čačak Tadija Dragicevic 2005 at the U20 European Championship bronze medal and made his debut a year later in the men's national team at the World Cup finals in 2006. however, defending champion Serbia and Montenegro disappointed at these finals and was eliminated after a legitimate first round, in which they lost three of five games against the eventual world champion Spain already from last sixteen. Three years later, it was better than a clearly rejuvenated national team moved in with the European Championship finals in 2009 to the final and there was also subject to the World Champion from Spain, against whom they had not won in the first round in the opening game.

After the European Championship finals in 2009 Tripković left his homeland and played in the 2009/10 season for DKV Joventut Badalona in Catalonia. After the departure of TopTalents Ricky Rubio and the upheaval took place, however, the team of the club faltered in the ACB league and missed the play-offs for the championship. In the following two years played Tripković for Unicaja Málaga in Andalusia. The team reached eighth place just in the play-offs of the 2010/11 season, where they lost to FC Barcelona in the first round, then the superior winning unbeaten in the play- offs the championship. The following season, 2011/12, in the Tripković after injury problems completed no play and left the club in January 2012, Unicaja missed even in ninth place a place in the championship final. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season Tripković got a new contract with Premier League rivals Blancos de Rueda Valladolid, who had held the class only by the license waiver of other clubs. After two months Tripković moved in December 2012 in the Türkiye Ligi to Fenerbahçe Ülker Basketbol from Istanbul, with whom he indeed won the Turkish Cup competition, but for the championship against Pınar Karşıyaka to retire early already in the quarter-final play-offs. For the following season, took just Željko Obradović the fortunes as coach of the team, but Tripković got a new contract and joined then beginning November 2013 the Italian first division Vanoli Cremona in the Lega Basket Serie A at.