Aleksandar Nađfeji

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Basketball player
Aleksandar Nađfeji
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Player information
Nickname Pista, Sasa
birthday October 27, 1976
place of birth Belgrade , SFR Yugoslavia
size 202 cm
position Power forward
NBA draft undrafted, 1998
Clubs as active
1996–1998 KK Put 1998–2001 KK Radnički Belgrade 2001–2005 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2005–2008 Cologne 99ers 2008–2009 ALBA Berlin 2009–2010 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2010–2013 FC Bayern Munich 2013–2016 Walter Tigers Tübingen Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro
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National team
0000   2001 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Clubs as coaches
2013–2018 Walter Tigers Tübingen (assistant trainer) 2018–2019 Walter Tigers Tübingen Since 2020 Wiha Panthers Schwenningen (assistant trainer) GermanyGermany
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Aleksandar Nađfeji ( Serbian - Cyrillic Александар Нађфеји , alternative spelling: Aleksandar Nadjfeji ; born October 27, 1976 in Belgrade , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a German basketball player and coach with Serbian roots.

Career

Nađfeji moved in 2001 from KK Radnički Belgrade to the basketball league. He began his career in Germany at Telekom Baskets Bonn , where he developed into a top performer and one of the best players in the league. In 2005 he moved to the Cologne 99ers . With Cologne he succeeded in defeating Alba Berlin in the final , becoming German champion for the first time in his career . The following year he was with the 99ers German cup winners , but since the club had to file for bankruptcy in January 2008, he moved to Alba Berlin.

In 2008 he celebrated the German championship again in Berlin. In addition, he won the cup for the second time with Alba in 2009. After the 2008/2009 season, his contract in Berlin was not extended and Nađfeji switched to the Walter Tigers Tübingen . After one season he left the Tübingen again and signed a three-year contract with the Pro A league club FC Bayern Munich . With the ambitious FC Bayern under the direction of the then national coach Dirk Bauermann , he was promoted to the basketball league at the end of his first season in Munich . After being an important part of Bayern's rotation in the 2011/12 season, he only played eight games under coach Svetislav Pesic in 2012/13.

So Nađfeji decided to return to Tübingen for the 2013/14 season and signed a three-year contract. At the side of his friend Igor Perović , he was initially a player and assistant coach, from 2016 only an assistant coach, also under Perovic's successors Tyron McCoy and Mathias Fischer .

In October 2014, he received German citizenship and at the same time gave up his Serbian citizenship.

2001 Nađfeji was a member of the Yugoslav national team under Svetislav Pešić . In Germany he was elected to the BBL's All Star Team four times .

At the beginning of May 2018, he took over the position of head coach at the Tübingen team, who had previously been  relegated from the Bundesliga to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA . In January 2019, he was released in Tübingen, at the time the team was third from bottom of the table. Nadjfeji moved to second division Wiha Panthers Schwenningen in the summer of 2020 , from whom he was hired as assistant coach.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1997: Participation in the U22 World Championship
  • 1999: Yugoslav All-Star Team
  • 2001: Yugoslav All-Star Team
  • 2001: Appointment of the Yugoslav national team
  • 2001: Winner of the Universiade in Beijing
  • 2002: German All-Star Team
  • 2003: German All-Star Team
  • 2004: German All-Star Team
  • 2005: Vice cup winner with the Telekom Baskets Bonn
  • 2006: German champion with the Cologne 99ers
  • 2007: German cup winner with the Cologne 99ers
  • 2008: German All Star Team
  • 2008: German champion with Alba Berlin
  • 2009: German cup winner with Alba Berlin
  • 2011: Pro A champion with FC Bayern Munich

Others

Aleksandar Nađfeji is married and has three children. His brother Stevan Nađfeji and his son Nemanja Nađfeji also made the leap to professional basketball players.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Just in time for the start of the season: Nadjfeji receives a German passport
  2. ↑ Nađfeji and McElroy strengthen the albatrosses ( Memento from April 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Change of sensation: Aleksandar Nadjfeji comes to Tübingen! , Walter-Tigers.de. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ Aleksandar Nadjfeji ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , statistik.beko-bbl.de. Retrieved June 24, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / statistik.beko-bbl.de
  5. ↑ Assistant coach and player in personal union - Aleksandar Nadjfeji returns to Tübingen! , Walter-Tigers.de. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ 'Just in time for the start of the season: Nadjfeji receives German passport'
  7. ↑ https://walter-tigers.de/index.php?id=63&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=3493&cHash=2776d4f12c087362869363c2309f19af
  8. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Walter Tigers Tübingen leaves Nadjfeji on leave. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Aleksandar Nadjfeji completes Schwenninger's coaching team. Wiha Panthers Schwenningen, accessed on June 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ mdr.de: Basketball - Bundesliga: MBC signs Tübingen talent Nadjfeji | MDR.DE. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nađfeji, Aleksandar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Нађфеји, Александар (Serbian); Nadjfeji; Aleksandar (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade , SFR Yugoslavia