Damjan Stojanovski

Damjan Stojanovski
Player information
birthday	December 9, 1987
place of birth	Skopje, SFR Yugoslavia
size	197 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
Club information
society	KK MZT Skopje
league	Prva Liga Macedonia / ABA League
Jersey number	10
Clubs as active
2005–2007 KK Vardar Skopje 2007–2009 KK AMAK SP Ohrid 2009–2010 KK Vardar Skopje 2010–2012 Lukoil Akademik Sofia Since 2012 KK MZT Skopje 00
National team
Since 02009	Macedonia

Damjan Stojanovski ( Macedonian Дамјан Стојановски ; born December 9, 1987 in Skopje , SR Macedonia ) is a Macedonian basketball player . With his clubs, Stojanovski won two doubles from the national championship and cup competition in Bulgaria with Lukoil Akademik and in Macedonia with MZT Skopje. He also won three other Macedonian cup competitions with various clubs. As a national player , he narrowly missed a medal with the Macedonian national team at the 2011 European Championship finals in fourth place. His twin brother Vojdan Stojanovski is also a national basketball player and has been active in the German basketball league at ALBA Berlin . Since 2012 he has been playing with his older brother Ognen (* 1984) for the Macedonian double winner KK MZT from Skopje.

Career

Damjan Stojanovski played his first games in senior teams with his brother Vojdan in his hometown at KK Vardar, which won the cup competition in Macedonia in 2007 after two previous defeats in the final. Afterwards, both played together for two years at AMAK SP in Ohrid , which finally won the cup competition in 2009. Then both were represented together in the final squad of the men's national team at the European Championship 2009 , for which the Macedonian selection qualified again for the first time in ten years and after reaching the intermediate round and a victory over Germany took a good ninth place.

In 2009 the twin brothers parted ways and Damjan Stojanovski went back to KK Vardar, who lost the 2010 play-off finals for the Macedonian championship in just seven games against KK Feni Industries . Damjan Stojanovski then moved abroad for two years and went to neighboring Bulgaria to join serial champion Lukoil Akademik from the capital Sofia , where his national team colleague Pero Antić had already been active. With Lukoil Akademik he won the double from the Bulgarian championship and cup competition twice. In the quarter-finals of the EuroChallenge 2010/11 , however, they failed in the quarter-finals at the eventual title winner KK Krka from Slovenia . A year later they were eliminated in the higher-ranking Eurocup 2011/12 already in the preliminary round. At the 2011 European Championship finals , the Stojanovski twins were able to celebrate the greatest success for the Macedonian national team to date. Led by the naturalized Bo McCalebb and the later NBA professional Antić, the selection reached the semi-finals almost sensationally, beating the host and medal candidate Lithuania in the quarter-finals . After two defeats against defending champions Spain and Russia , however, they missed the medal they had hoped for in fourth place.

In 2012 Damjan Stojanovski returned to Skopje and joined the Macedonian double winner KK MZT, where his older brother Ognen and the former basketball Bundesliga player and national team captain Todor Gečevski played. Together they defended the 2013 double and also won the cup competition in the 2013/14 season. The national team was eliminated from the 2013 European Championship finals after the preliminary round, and at the premiere of KK MZT in an international ULEB competition, it was only enough to win ten preliminary round games in the 2013/14 Eurocup . In the ABA league , after a seventh place with a positive record in 2013, it was only ninth place in the 2013/14 season.

Web links

• ABA - Player: Damjan Stojanovski - player profile on the websites of the ABA League ( English )
• Stojanovski, DAMJAN - Player profile on the sides of the ULEB (English)
• Damjan STOJANOVSKI (MKD) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)