Vlado Ilievski
Vlado Ilievski ( Macedonian Владо Илиевски; born January 19, 1980 in Strumica, SR Macedonia ) is a Macedonian professional basketball player. After Ilievski began his professional career at KK Partizan in Belgrade, he won at his stations in Slovenia, Spain and Italy each time the national championships. After further stops in Turkey, Russia and Croatia, he has been playing the 2013/14 season in the Czech Republic for the local series champion CEZ Nymburk
National Competitions
Ilievski completed his first championship matches at senior level as early as the 1995/96 season in his parent club KK Nemetali in his hometown. 1997/98 he spent a year in the United States at a high school. After just one year he returned and played for the Serbian series champions KK Partizan Belgrade. Currently Ilievski but won the Montenegrin team of KK Budućnost Podgorica between 1999 and 2001 three times in a row the National Championship of Serbia and Montenegro. 2000 had KK Partizan in the play-off final series settle for the runner, it could defend the Cup victory in 1999 won successfully. As of December 2000 Ilievski played at Turkish club Antbirlik from Antalya. However, the climber in the highest national league Türkiye Ligi Basketbol rose at the end of the season as Penultimate same again.
From 2001 to Ilievski played for two seasons for the first time at KK Union Olimpija in Ljubljana. The dominant Slovenian basketball club also brought in Ilievskis first season of 2002, the national league and cup double. 2003 lost to the final series of the Slovenian championship in five games against KK Krka from Novo Mesto and had to be content with the Cup victory. Ilievski moved to Spanish triple- winners FC Barcelona, with whom he was able to defend the Spanish championships under coach Svetislav Pešić in 2004 and winning the inaugural played Spanish Supercup. In the 2004/05 season, the defending champion had already failed in the first play-off round of the Spanish Championship.
In the season 2005/ 06 brought Pešić coach Ilievski in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A for Lottomatica in Rome. They reached the Italian Cup final, which was lost just two points to Basket Napoli, and was eliminated in the semifinals of the national championship against the eventual champions Pallacanestro Treviso. The following season he moved to the end of December Virtus Bologna, which competed under the name Vidivici sponsors. Again had Ilievski in the Italian Cup final defeat with two points this time against Treviso suffered in the final series of the championship it was clear in three games Mens Sana Basket Siena inferior to that committed him for the following season. With the antretenden under the sponsor names Montepaschi club from Tuscany Ilievski 2008 defended superior to the Italian league title with only one defeat in the play- offs in the final series against his former club from Rome.
For the 2008/ 09 season Ilievski KK Union Olimpija returned to, but switched back in December 2008 in the Spanish Liga ACB club TAU Ceramica for Basque in Vitoria- Gasteiz. With the Basques, he won the Copa del Rey cup competition and reached the final series of the Spanish Championship, which was lost against his former club from the Catalan Barcelona. Then he returned to KK Union Olimpija back, who lost for the first time since 2003, the final series of the Slovenian championship against KK Krka in 2010 and 2011, respectively scarce in five games. In the Slovenian Cup competition, however, there was twice victorious. For the season 2011/12 Ilievski moved back to Turkey and played at Anadolu Efes SK in Istanbul, where he joined the large footsteps of his compatriot Macedonian Petar Naumoski, who had played very successfully in the 90s for this club. After Ilievski could not fully meet the expectations, already they parted at the beginning of 2012 and he moved to Russian club Kuban locomotive from Krasnodar.
For the 2012/13 season Ilievski joined the Croatian vice-champion and cup winner KK Cedevita from Zagreb, the 2012/13 participates as a finalist in the Adriatic League in the ULEB Euro League. There one difference, however, from and after the first round after being lost as defending the cup final would retire in the championship, this time in the semis from. In the 2013/14 season after season start Ilievski got a new contract and joined in mid-November the Czech series champion CEZ Basketball Nymburk out who will compete next national championship and VTB United League and the Eurocup 2013/14.
European Cup competitions
Ilievski has played up to the 2005/06 season with Lottomatica Rome in every season for at least one club in the highest European League ULEB Euro League from 2001 onwards. He also did not play in the only season 2000 /01 the Suproleague with KK Partizan. With Union Olimpija he reached up to the early departure in the group stage in the 2008/09 season, where he moved earlier to TAU Ceramica in Spain, and in the following season 2009/ 10 is always the second round of sixteen best teams. With defending champion FC Barcelona overtook him in 2004 and in the following season, 2005, the same fate with the failure in the Round of 16 in the season 2011/12 he reached with Anadolu Efes SK, although the group stage of the last 16 teams, but moved to after locomotive Kuban who competed in the ULEB Eurocup.
With Lottomatica Rome, he retired in the ULEB Cup in 2005 /06 in the quarterfinals. With this club he would have qualified 2006/ 07 in the Euro League for the round of the last sixteen teams. With his move to Virtus Bologna in December 2006, he reached a third place in the Euro Challenge 2007, which won his former coach Svetislav Pešić with Akasvayu Girona. In the ULEB Euro League 2007 /08 it reached with Montepaschi Siena for the first time the Final Four tournament in 2008 in Madrid, where they won the match for third place against TAU Ceramica. In the following season he reached with the Basque club to which he was changed in December 2008, once the quarter-final series in which you retired against his former club and later champions FC Barcelona.
National
Want to seasons by Petar Ilievski Naumoski took 19 years with the Macedonian national team at the European Championship finals in 1999 in part. In this final round would retire with three defeats out in the first round. It was not until ten years later again after qualifying for a final, but at the 2009 European Championships in Poland Ilievski could not participate due to injury. Two years later it was again qualified and entered, led by naturalized Bo McCalebb despite an opening defeat in extra time against the Montenegrin national basketball team after six consecutive victories to the final round before where you could climb in 2011 hosts Lithuania in the quarterfinals of the European Championship. When they lagged at the registry of 63-65, Ilievski scored in the final seconds of the game a three- point shot in the closing seconds and even a free throw that meant the last four points of the game and the victory and the greatest success for the minnows. This victory also secured the Macedonians participation in the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament in 2012. In the match for the bronze medal they lost to the Russian team. In the Olympic qualifying tournament in Caracas in 2012, they lost in the quarterfinals of the Dominican Republic and so missed the actual Olympic tournament. A year later, would retire at the European Championship finals in 2013 after only one victory this time already again in the first round of.