Aleksandar Capin

Aleksandar Capin
Player information
Nickname	Aco
birthday	October 6, 1982
place of birth	Sarajevo , SFR Yugoslavia
size	186 cm
position	Point guard
Club information
society	Koroivos
league	Basket League
Clubs as active
2000–2003 KK Krka Novo mesto 2003–2004 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2004 BCM Gravelines 2004–2005 Panellinios Athens 2005–2006 Viola Reggio Calabria 2006–2008 Cimberio Varese 2008 Panionios Athens 2009 Lokomotive Rostow / Kuban 2010–2011 Žalgiris Kaunas 2011 KK Union Olimpija 2011 –2012 Türk Telekomspor 2012–2013 KK Radnički Kragujevac 2013–2014 KK Budućnost Podgorica 2014–2015 JuveCaserta Basket 2015 KK MZT Skopje 2015–2016 KK Igokea Aleksandrovac Since 2016 Koroivos 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0
National team
2004-2008	Slovenia

Aleksandar Ćapin ( Serbian - Cyrillic Александар Ћапин , born October 6, 1982 in Sarajevo , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian - Slovenian basketball player . The Slovenian national player and two-time European Championship finals competitor played professionally for clubs from all major and major basketball leagues on the European continent except for Spain and Northern Europe, including a season in the German basketball league in 2003/04 for Telekom Baskets Bonn. With KK Krka, Ćapin won a Slovenian championship in 2003 and reached the finals of the ULEB Eurocup . With Žalgiris Kaunas he won the Lithuanian championship and the Baltic Basketball League in 2010 and 2011. With Radnički Kragujevac, Ćapin moved into the 2012/13 Final Four tournament of this league as "Regular Season" MVP and top scorer of the ABA League. Most recently, Ćapin won a Macedonian championship with MZT Skopje in 2015 , after having become the Montenegrin champion in 2014 with KK Budućnost Podgorica . Ćapin has been playing for KK Igokea Aleksandrovac in Bosnia since the 2015/16 season.

Career

Ćapin played in his youth for the youth teams of the Serbian top club KK Partizan in Belgrade . In 2000, at the age of 17, he switched to the Slovenian champion KK Krka in Novo mesto , with whom he initially participated in the Suproleague and the ULEB Euroleague . While under coach Aleš Pipan in the FIBA Suproleague 2000/01 , among others, against the second German representative Bayer Giants Leverkusen won out and then in the second round to eventual finalists Panathinaikos was eliminated, one difference in the ULEB Euro League 2001/02 after the Preliminary round, which one had only reached through two qualifying wins against Telekom Baskets Bonn. In the following season the team played under the Croatian coach Neven Spahija in the newly refurbished 2002-03 ULEB Cup for clubs that did not qualify for the Euro League, and reached in the first season the finals, however, against the Spanish side Pamesa Valencia lost went. The 20-year-old Ćapin had now become his team's starting PG and scored a good 13 points and three assists per game in the ULEB Cup. Nationally, Krka had only two runners-up championships behind record champions KK Union Olimpija from the capital. In the 2001/02 season they lost not only the national championship final series and the cup final but also the final of the first-ever Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) against their arch-rivals. In 2003, KK Krka was able to push the record champions from the throne again and win the championship. In addition to coach Spahija, Ćapin also left the Slovenian champions despite an ongoing contract.

After Ćapin's current contract in Novo mesto had been declared invalid, the Serbian coach Predrag Krunić, also from Bosnia, brought him to the Telekom Baskets from Bonn in the German basketball league . In the ULEB Cup 2003/04 the Bonn team disappointed and were eliminated after only three wins in ten games after the preliminary round. Nationally reached the team as second in the main round of the 2003/04 season , in which Ćapins individual statistics corresponded to those of his previous season in the ULEB Cup, a good starting position for the play-offs for the championship, but they could not use them again and lost in the semifinals series just under five games against the eventual champions Opel Skyliners Frankfurt , who ended the series of the seven-time champions Alba Berlin as the title winner . The following season Ćapin moved to the English Channel to the French runner-up BCM Gravelines from Dunkirk . After a rather moderate start to the season in the ULEB Cup 2004/05 and national league, Ćapin moved after only 13 appearances in the LNB Pro A in December 2004 to the Greek A1 Ethniki for the Panellinios club in Athens , which at the end of the season just managed to stay third from last. For the European Championship finals in 2005 , the former national junior player was appointed to the Slovenian men's selection by his former club coach Pipan. Undefeated in group matches in Belgrade's Pionir Hall , Slovenia lost the quarter-finals against Germany in the Belgrade Arena and finally qualified for the 2006 World Cup in sixth place . Ćapin received after the opening win only again in the placement round operating time.

After a season with the Italian first division club Viola from Reggio Calabria , who relegated after only three victories at the end of the season and initially ceased professional play, Ćapin moved in 2006 within the Lega Basket Serie A from Calabria at the foot of the Alps to previous league rivals Cimberio from Varese . With the traditional club and multiple European Cup winners in the 1970s, he managed to return to the 2007 play-offs in seventh place, in which they were defeated in the first round by the Lombard arch-rivals and record champions Olimpia Milano . Ćapin's former teammate Rimantas Kaukėnas from Bonn won the second national championship as MVP of the final series against Milan with Montepaschi Siena . After Ćapin was not nominated for the World Cup finals, he returned to the 2007 European Championship finals in the circle of the national team, which again started strong with five wins in the tournament. After a runaway victory with 77:47 in the quarter-finals against Germany, Slovenia lost the following three games and missed direct qualification for the 2008 Olympic basketball tournament . National coach Pipan only used Ćapin in the opening game, otherwise he had already been ousted in the rotation by the younger, future NBA professional Goran Dragić . The following 2007/08 season was almost catastrophic for Varese and the club had to relegate for the second time after 1992 after only eight wins this season as the table penultimate. Ćapin was last no longer involved, because he was released in January 2008 and returned to Greece, where he reached the championship play-offs with Panionios from Athens in fourth place. After you had defeated Ćapins former team Panellinios smoothly in two games in the first round, you lost in the semifinals series just as smoothly against the then series champions and local rivals Panathinaikos.

In autumn 2008, Ćapin suffered a hip injury in a preparation game in Rostov-on-Don , which had to be operated on. The Ukrainian champions BK Azovmasch Mariupol then dissolved the contract concluded with Ćapin. After Ćapin was initially in contact with the Polish master Asseco Prokom Gdynia in early 2009 , Ćapin returned to the Sea of ​​Azov region and signed a contract with the Russian Lokomotiv Club from Rostov where he had been injured six months earlier. There he did not stay long with the club, however, because the entire club moved to Krasnodar further south at the end of the season . The season opener in the 2009/10 season was disappointing after, among other things, they were eliminated internationally without a win after the preliminary round of the EuroChallenge 2009/10 , in which they were twice defeated by the eventual title winner BG Göttingen . At the turn of the year, Ćapin then moved to the Lithuanian master Žalgiris in Kaunas , with whom he failed in the intermediate round of the ULEB Euroleague 2009/10, among other things, at the Polish master Asseco Prokom. Although the Lithuanian record champion was able to take back the 2010 title in the Baltic Basketball League from national competitor Lietuvos rytas Vilnius in his hall in the finals, the national titles went back to their arch rivals. While Žalgiris clearly failed to reach the play-offs this time in the second round of the 16 best teams in the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 after only one win in six games, they not only defended the title in the Baltic League 2011, but was also able to regain the national titles. However, Ćapins play at Žalgiris had decreased and he was no longer given a contract extension.

After his former club coach Aleš Pipan was no longer a national coach, Ćapin was no longer considered for a final squad of the national team. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season he played again in Slovenia for the record champions KK Union Olimpija in the capital Ljubljana , who had given the last two titles in the national championship to Ćapin's former club Krka. Nevertheless, as a finalist of the ABA-Liga 2010/11 you were allowed to play in the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 , in which you only achieved one home win against Asseco Prokom and eliminated in ten preliminary round games. In December 2011, Ćapin moved to the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi for Türk Telekomspor from the Turkish capital Ankara , but at the end of the season in ninth place just missed making the play-offs for the championship. Ćapin, who also has a Serbian passport, then played the following season for the first time in Serbia for KK Radnički in Kragujevac , who took part in the ABA League 2012/13 for the third time in a row after moving from Vršac . As top scorer and best assist provider with nearly 18 points and five assists per game Capin had that on the basis of efficiency rating as MVP of the ABA League Main Round was excellent, significant role in ensuring that the team is somewhat surprising as the main round of third parties for the Final Four - Tournament qualified, which was held in the almost sensationally strong main round first KK Igokea Aleksandrovac in Laktaši . Both surprise teams, however, lost the semi-finals when Radnički lost to KK Red Star Belgrade by one point , and KK Partizan won his fifth title in this league.

In the following 2013/14 season Ćapin played for the Montenegrin champions KK Budućnost from the capital Podgorica . In the ABA-Liga 2013/14 the team could not improve with Ćapin and again missed the entry into the Final Four tournament in fifth place . After the seventh national double , the team started again moderately in the Eurocup 2014/15 , after having been eliminated after the preliminary round last year. In December 2014, shortly before Christmas, Ćapin signed a two-month contract with Juve Basket from Caserta in Campania , with which he returned to the Italian Serie A. The team, which in the preseason just failed to get into the championship play-offs, remained at the end of the table and was only able to keep the class at the end of the season by withdrawing other teams. Ćapin's contract had already expired and had not been extended. Instead, he moved for the play-offs to the KK MZT Aerodrom in the Macedonian capital Skopje , with which he celebrated their fourth national title win in a row. Then Ćapin played for the first time in Bosnia , where he was born, at KK Igokea Aleksandrovac from Laktaši in the Republika Srpska .

Web links

• CAPIN, ALEKSANDAR - Player profile on the website of the Euro League ( English )
• Aleksandar Ćapin - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Aleksandar Capin Europe Stats - Personal statistics from European leagues at basketball-reference.com (English)
• ABA - Player: Aleksandar Ćapin - Profile on the website of the ABA League (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Novo Mesto takes the playmaker of Telekom Baskets Bonn to court. General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , October 19, 2003, archived from the original on December 6, 2015 ; Retrieved December 6, 2015 . 
2. Jump up ↑ Player Statistics - Aleksandar Capin. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on December 6, 2015 (profile on statistics pages). 
3. ↑ Legabasket: Aleksandar Capin. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed December 6, 2015 (Italian, player profile). 
4. ↑ FIBA Arbitral Tribunal (FAT) - ARBITRAL AWARD: (0039/09 FAT). (PDF (433 KB)) FIBA , August 17, 2009, accessed on December 6, 2015 (English, repro of an arbitration judgment). 
5. ↑ Capin, Aleksandar - Turkish Basketball League Player: 2011-2012 Regular Season. TBLStat.net, accessed on December 6, 2015 (English, individual seasonal statistics). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Aleksandar Capin signs at MZT Skopje. Interperformances.com, May 5, 2015, accessed on December 6, 2015 (English, media information from the player agency). 
7. ↑ Fernando Gordo: Aleksandar Capin, MVP de la Liga Adriática: "Espero que pronto me veáis por España". Solobasket.com, June 26, 2013, accessed December 6, 2015 (Spanish, interview).