Branislav Ratkovica
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| Nickname | Bane | |
| birthday | July 27, 1985 | |
| place of birth | Gradačac, SFR Yugoslavia | |
| size | 194 cm | |
| position | Point guard | |
| Club information | ||
| society | KK Partizan Belgrade | |
| league | ABA League / KLS | |
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2002–2003 Beopetrol Belgrad 2003–2006 Atlas Belgrade 2006–2007 Mega Ishrana Belgrade 2007–2008 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2008–2011 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2011–2012 Aliağa Petkim GSK 2012–2013 Olin Edirne 2013 Artland Dragons 2013 BK Politechnika-Halytschyna 2013–2015 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2015–2016 Lukoil Akademik Sofia Since 2016 KK Partizan Belgrade;_Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_(2003%E2%80%932006).svg){kind=small}     
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Branislav Ratkovica (born July 27, 1985 in Gradačac , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a Serbian basketball player . After starting his career in his home country, Ratkovica played from 2007 with a break of over a year and a half in Turkey and the Ukraine until 2015 for a total of three German first division clubs in the basketball Bundesliga . He was active for almost five seasons for the Walter Tigers Tübingen, with whom he missed a play-off participation for the German championship, but was the best assists in the top German division in the basketball Bundesliga 2010/11 and the 2014/15 season . After a year in Bulgaria , where he defended his title with master Lukoil Akademik, Ratkovica will play again in his home country for the former series champion Partizan Belgrade in the 2016/17 season.
Career
Ratkovica's family fled to Belgrade before the civil war in Yugoslavia, and Branislav, who was initially a football fanatic, came into contact with basketball there. As a Serbian-Montenegrin junior national player, Ratkovica took part in the European Junior Championships twice in 2004 and 2005 and won the bronze medal in Moscow in 2005 together with players like Luka Bogdanović under coach Luka Pavićević .
After playing in several clubs in Belgrade , he was brought to the German BBL in 2007 by his former youth coach Predrag Krunić , who now worked as head coach of EWE Baskets from Oldenburg . At the EWE Baskets Ratkovica could not prevail, whereupon he moved to league competitor Walter Tigers from Tübingen for the following season 2008/09 . A Serbian compatriot from Ratkovica also worked there with Igor Perović as assistant coach under the Turkish head coach Tolga Öngören . In Tübingen Ratkovica had much more play than in Oldenburg. While he was able to increase his personal statistics in Tübingen, season after season, and the Tigers, who have been trained by Perović, who has been promoted to head coach since 2009, developed from a fight for relegation to a fight for play-off places, it was enough for that Team never for participation in the play-offs for the German championship . In the BBL season 2010/11 he was the best assists of the BBL with over seven assists per game.
He then got a lucrative offer from Turkey and plays in the 2011/12 season on the Turkish west coast for Aliağa Petkim GSK in the TBL. After a few games in the 2012/13 season, he moved to league rivals Olin Edirne. But even there he did not end his contract and after a few months moved back to Germany, where he joined the Artland Dragons from Quakenbrück towards the end of the regular 2012/13 season. With these he reached the play-offs, but retired in the first round against Ratiopharm Ulm . Then Ratkovica moved to the Basketball Superliga Ukraine to BK Politechnika-Halychyna from Lviv . Only shortly after the start of the season, his contract there was canceled and the Serb moved back to his old place of work in Tübingen . There he signed a two-year contract. After two years in which Tübingen was able to celebrate relegation, his contract was not extended in the summer of 2015. Ratkovica had previously been the best assists in the league again in the 2014/15 season with more than seven assists per game.
In the 2015/16 season Ratkovica played for the Bulgarian champions Lukoil Akademik from the capital Sofia . After failing to qualify for the EuroChallenge 2012/13 three years earlier with Aliağa Petkim GSK and failing to take part in a continental club competition, he reached the second group stage of the 32 best teams with the Bulgarian team in the FIBA Europe Cup 2015/16 , in which, however, only one victory in six group games could be achieved. In the national championship, however, the title was defended and for Ratkovica personally the first title win in the men. For the following season he moved back to the Serbian homeland to the former series champion KK Partizan in Belgrade, but the arch-rival and champion KK Red Star had already overtaken the rank. With Partizan, Ratkovica will also play in the supranational ABA league 2016/17 . The team is also registered for the EuroCup 2016/17 .
Web links
- easyCredit BBL - Branislav Ratkovica - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
- Branislav Ratkovica - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
- Branislav Ratkovica - Turkish Basketball League Player - player profile on the statistics pages of the TBL ( English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fabian Foelsch: Sugar Passes and Train to the Basket. Tigers Tübingen , 2008, accessed on July 24, 2011 (“ Homestory ”).
- ↑ Hansjörg Lösel: Basketball: Tigers playmaker moves to third bottom in the Turkish league. Schwäbisches Tagblatt , June 1, 2011, accessed on July 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Branislav Ratkovica returns to the league and moves to Artland. Basketball Bundesliga , February 25, 2013, accessed on July 29, 2016 (Media Info Artland Dragons in the BBL news archive).
- ^ Sid : Tübingen brings Ratkovica back. Focus , October 30, 2013, accessed July 29, 2016 .
- ^ Partizan signs playmaker Ratkovica. Eurocup , July 29, 2016, accessed on July 29, 2016 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ratkovica, Branislav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gradačac |