Zoran Erceg
Zoran Erceg ( Serbian Cyrillic Зоран Ерцег; born January 11, 1985 in Pakrac, SR Croatia) is a Serbian professional basketball player. After career start in his Serbian homeland Erceg played in Greece and Turkey and a year with CSKA Moscow in Russia. The Serbian national team won with his club teams so far the international competitions Euro Challenge 2012, the VTB United League in 2013 and the ABA league in 2004. At national titles Erceg won the Russian and Turkish championship and cup competitions in Serbia and Montenegro, Greece and Turkey. Since the 2013/14 season he plays in the Türkiye Ligi Basketbol, this time for the Turkish champions Galatasaray SK Liv Hospital of Istanbul.
Career
Erceg moving in 2003 to the Serbian capital for FMP Železnik, who took that time under the name sponsors reflex. In the 2003 /04 season they won the Serbian- Montenegrin Cup competition and was national runner-up. A year later Erceg won with the club in 2004 the title in the ABA league and could again in 2005 to win the cup competition of Serbia and Montenegro. In the 2005/06 season he was loaned to the end of the season KK Borac Čačak out while his teammates again won the ABA league. After Ercegs return to FMP Železnik you drew in the 2006/07 season as the defending champion again in the time played out as a final series championships decision of the ABA league, but was defeated in two games in a previous year's final revenge local rivals KK Partizan Belgrade. Despite the defeat Erceg was voted best player of the second final match and was allowed to participate in the subsequent summer for the first time with the Serbian national team in the finals. In the first final since the separation of Montenegro, however, the Serbian selection disappointed and lost in the championship finals of 2007, all three group games.
2008 Erceg got a five -year contract with Greek giants Olympiakos Piraeus in the A1 Ethniki. With the team he moved into the " Final Four " of the highest European club competition ULEB Euro Cup 2008/ 09, in which one, however, in the semifinals of the Greek arch-rivals Panathinaikos Athens and the " small final " FC Barcelona defeated. In the final series of the Greek Cup, you could not stop series champions Panathinaikos. In the 2009/10 season Erceg was loaned to Panionios Athens which just a place in the Championship play-offs reached on the eighth place of the championship, where they were eliminated in the first round clearly inferior defending champions Panathinaikos. Then Erceg returned to Olympiakos, who finished unbeaten, the main round of the Greek Cup in season 2010/11 on the first place. Also undefeated are also reached the finals series against defending champion Panathinaikos, but in which one could use the home advantage just as the quarter-finals of ULEB Euro Cup 2010/ 11 and conceded three defeats in four games in the play- offs. At least the title in the Greek Cup competition could successfully defend. Then Ercegs contract was terminated and he moved to Turkey.
In the season 2011/12 Erceg played for Beşiktaş JK in Istanbul, Türkiye Milangaz Basketbol Ligi. Together with Carlos Arroyo and Pops Mensah-Bonsu, he was one of the protagonists in the first second title of a Turkish club team in a European competition. At 91:86 - Final victory over Élan Chalon he dominated with 25 points and 15 rebounds the frontcourt along with Mensah - Bonsu, who contributed 26 points and 20 rebounds and was named " Most Valuable Player " of the final game. In the Turkish Cup competition and championship the team was not going to stop and got a triple. It was only the second championship win in the history of basketball team of Beşiktaş, and the first since 1975. In the 2012/13 season Erceg played for the dominant Russian series champion CSKA Moscow, in which it failed after a hamstring injury early in the season for several months. Whereas it was in 2012/13 to defend the title of the Russian master in the PBL and in the Eastern European VTB United League is successful, it failed in a rematch of last year's final in the semi-finals of ULEB Euro League 2012 /13 Ercegs former club and defending champion Olympiakos Piraeus. For the 2013/14 season Erceg returned to Istanbul to coach Ergin Ataman, who was, however, after the title win with Beşiktaş became coach of local rivals Galatasaray SK. Ataman had guided to Galatasaray already in the preseason Arroyo and won with the team the Turkish Cup in 2013. After Fenerbahçe Ülker had strong local rival "upgraded" with Panathinaikos ' coach Zeljko Obradovic 's former success, we undertook at the beginning of the 2013/14 season also with Mensah - Bonsu the third protagonist of the triple winner in 2012.