Bruno Socé

Bruno Socé (* 1946 ; † May 22, 2014 in Munich ) was a Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player and coach.

Career

As a player he was active for Belgrade and Sarajevo. Socé began his coaching career in 1980 as the director of the basketball school in Sarajevo . He stayed in this position until 1991, where he also acted as coach of Bosna Sarajevo from 1988 . He then left his home country and initially hired in Germany in Münster and Weiden, before he was hired by Telekom Baskets Bonn in 1995 on the recommendation of his friend Svetislav Pešić , whose best man he was .

In his first season he was promoted to the Bundesliga with the then second division team, in which he led his team to the runner-up the next year. Until he left Bonn in 2001, he was to repeat this success two more times.

Since then, however, he has not been able to build on these successes again. Although he returned after a less than successful guest appearance in the Russian league, in the 2003/04 season again to EnBW Ludwigsburg in the basketball Bundesliga. There he was released in spring 2004 due to acute danger of relegation.

His last coaching station was Gaz Metan Mediaș in Romania until 2011 .

Bruno Socé died on May 22, 2014 in Munich .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Krause: Riot at the family reunion. Berliner Zeitung , May 4, 1999, accessed on January 21, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Gerhard Mertens: "We have done miracles". General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , May 24, 2014, accessed on October 10, 2014 .