Bogdan Tanjevic

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Bogdan Tanjevic

Bogdan Tanjević (born February 13, 1947 in Pljevlja ) is a Montenegrin basketball coach .

career

Tanjević moved with his family to Sarajevo at the age of four , he started playing basketball at the local club Željezničar Sarajevo. From 1966 he studied literature in Belgrade and played for OKK Belgrade . One of his teammates there was Radivoje Korać , he played at OKK under coach Borislav Stanković , later general secretary of the world association FIBA . With Yugoslavia's national team, he took part in the European Championships in 1964 and 1966. He married the national basketball player Jasna Selimović from Sarajevo.

He was just 24 years old when he took up the post of coach at the second division KK Bosna Sarajevo in 1971 . He brought his friend Svetislav Pesić to Sarajevo as a player. In the 1971/72 season Tanjević KK Bosna led to promotion to the first division. With Mirza Delibasić he won a great talent for his team in 1972, which contributed significantly to KK Bosna's relegation in 1972/73. In 1974 he led the Yugoslav selection as head coach to win the European Junior Championship. With Ratko Radovanović one of the top performers there was a player who played for him in Sarajevo for years.

1974/75 Tanjević could not exercise his coaching office in Sarajevo because he had to do his military service, then he headed the team again and led KK Bosna 1978 to win the Yugoslav championship and the cup competition. In the same year they reached the final in the European club cup Korać Cup , but lost there against Partizan Belgrade .

At the EM 1977 he was an assistant coach on the staff of the Yugoslav men's national team under Aleksandar Nikolić .

In the 1978/79 season, KK Bosna reached the top of Europe under Tanjević when they defeated the national champions Pallacanestro Varese from Italy with 96:93 in the final of the European Cup . Outstanding man of the final was Žarko Varajić with 45 points, Mirza Delibasić scored 30 points. In the following season 1979/80 Tanjević with KK Bosna just missed the entry into the final of the European Cup when they finished third in the final round. In the same season, however, he won the Yugoslav championship for the second time with his team. 1980 ended his tenure in Sarajevo, he was Yugoslav national coach and remained so until 1982. At the EM in 1981, Yugoslavia under Tanjević was vice European champion, in the final they were defeated by the Soviet Union .

In 1982 he became a coach at the Italian club Juventus Caserta . There the Brazilian Oscar Schmidt was one of his protégés. He saw Schmidt, who is known for his offensive power, at a tournament in Brazil in 1979 and brought him to Italy after taking office in Caserta. In his tenure, which lasted until 1986, he reached the finals (home and return) in the Korać Cup with the team in the 1985/86 season, but lost both to Virtus Rome . In the same year he was runner-up in Italy with Caserta.

Between 1986 and 1994 he worked as a trainer for Pallacanestro Trieste (also Italy). In 1994, his team around Dejan Bodiroga and Gregor Fučka lost the two finals of the Korać Cup against PAOK Thessaloniki . His third club in Italy was Olimpia Milan (1994 to 1996). The Milanese won the Italian championship and the cup under Tanjević in 1996. In 1995 he missed victory in the Korać Cup with Milan ( Alba Berlin was the winner with his former player Pesic as coach) as well as in 1996, when they lost to Efes Pilsen .

In the 1996/97 season he looked after CSP Limoges in France, then from 1997 to 2000 the national team of Italy. At the European Championship in 1999 he led Italy to the title, the team around Carlton Myers , Andrea Meneghin and Gregor Fučka defeated Spain in the final with 64:56. This also succeeded in qualifying for the 2000 Summer Olympics, in which Tanjević was fifth with Italy.

He returned to club basketball and subsequently worked for these teams: KK Budućnost Podgorica (2001), ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne (2001/02), Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna (2002). Lyon-Villeurbanne (at that time the German Tim Nees and the Swiss Harold Mrazek were  part of the squad) he led to winning the French championship title after the team under his predecessor had been in the final series five times in six years, but lost each time.

From 2003 to 2013 he was the coach of the Turkish national team and during this tenure from 2007 to 2010 he was also the coach of Fenerbahçe Istanbul . Under his leadership, the national team became bronze medalists at the Mediterranean Games in 2009, vice world champions in 2010 and winners of the Mediterranean Games in 2013. With Fenerbahçe, Tanjević won the Turkish Championship in 2008 and 2010 and the Cup in 2010.

In June 2010 he took up the post of sports director at Virtus Rom. From 2015 to 2017 he was the national coach of Montenegro. In 2017 Tanjević ended his coaching career.

In 2015 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Italian Basketball Federation and in 2019 that of the World Federation FIBA .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Bogdan Tanjevic, national coach in four countries. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Yugoslavia | 1974 European Championship for Junior Men | ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  3. ^ Korac Cup 1977-78. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Champions Cup 1978-79. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Champions Cup 1979-80. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Yugoslavia | 1981 European Championship for Men | ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ LEGABASKET SERIE A LEGABASKET SERIE A. Accessed July 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/clubes/c3/C3_86.htm
  9. ↑ a b c d HALL OF FAMERS: Bogdan Tanjević (Montenegro). In: FIBA. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  10. ^ Korac Cup 1993-94. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Bogdan Tanjevic. In: Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Korac Cup 1994-95. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  13. ^ Korac Cup 1995-96. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ European Championship 1999. Accessed July 3, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Olympic Basketball Tournament 2000 (National Squads). Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  16. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Teams. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  17. ↑ 2001-2002 season: La délivrance pour l'ASVEL | LNB.fr. Retrieved July 3, 2020 (long iso).
  18. ↑ Zoran Bogdanovic: Bogdan Tanjevic is Roma's new sporting director. In: TalkBasket.net. June 24, 2010, Retrieved July 3, 2020 (American English).
  19. ↑ Bogdan Tanjevic met fin à sa carrière d'entraîneur - Basket - MTN. Retrieved July 3, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Tanjević, Bogdan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanjevic, Bogdan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Montenegrin basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Pljevlja