Dejan Musli

Dejan Musli
Catalan League 2019
Player information
birthday	January 3, 1991
place of birth	Prizren, SFR Yugoslavia
size	213 cm
position	center
Club information
society	Brose Bamberg
league	BBL
Jersey number	42
Clubs as active
2008–2010 KK FMP Železnik 2010–2012 Caja Laboral 2011 → Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 2012 → KK Mega Vizura 2012–2014 KK Partizan Belgrade 2015 KK Mega Basket 2015–2016 Bàsquet Manresa 2016–2017 Unicaja Málaga Since 2017 Brose Bamberg ––––– ––––– ––––– -
National team
000002012	Serbia

Dejan Musli ( Serbian - Cyrillic Дејан Мусли ; born January 3, 1991 in Prizren , Kosovo and Metohija ) is a Serbian basketball player . The two-time European youth champion returned to his homeland in 2012 after two years in Spain, where he was twice Serbian champion with KK Partizan and in 2013 he was also the winner of the supranational Adriatic basketball league (ABA league) . For the 2015/16 season Musli went back to the Spanish ACB league to Bàsquet Manresa . In the following seasons he played for Unicaja Málaga and won the EuroCup 2016/17 . In December 2017, the German champion Brose Bamberg signed the Serbian and provided him with a contract until the end of the season.

Career

Musli belonged to the successful youth team of the Belgrade talent factory of KK FMP Železnik, which won the Next Generation Tournament of the Euroleague twice in 2008 and 2009 . With these two titles, Musli was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) in this junior competition. In the following summer of 2009, Musli also won the U18 European Championship finals with the Serbian youth team, after this selection had already won the title of U16 European Champion in 2007 two years earlier. In 2009 Musli was the only player of the title winner in the "All-Tournament-Team" of the five best tournament players. In contrast to 2007, when he was still MVP of the tournament, he had to give up the title of MVP to Enes Kanter from bronze medalist Turkey in 2009 . At the age of 18, Musli signed his first professional contract with KK FMP, for which he not only played in the Serbian league , in which they lost the play-off semi- finals for the championship in 2009 , but also in the supranational ABA league , in which they played Eighth place in 2009 in the 2009/10 season was only twelfth. His only victory in the preliminary round of the international club competition Eurocup 2008/09 achieved KK FMP against the German representative Artland Dragons in the 93:65 home win. After KK FMP had also lost the national cup final in 2010 against series champion KK Partizan, Musli moved to Spain in the summer of 2010 to the top European club Caja Laboral from Vitoria-Gasteiz , which has a permanent place in the highest European club competition, the Euroleague.

In the first-class team from the Basque Country , however, Musli only played a few parts of the game, in the Euroleague 2010/11, for example, only to two short appearances, in which he scored his first and for the time being only point in this competition with a free throw in the home win against scored the Serbian champions KK Partizan. Six weeks later, Musli was loaned to the Italian first division club Fabi Shoes Sutor from Montegranaro , who, however, returned Musli a short time later without being used. At the beginning of the following season, the Basque club tried to provide Musli with a loan to the league competitor from Fuenlabrada for more playing time, but after four weeks, Musli also waived the further services of Musli. Finally, in March 2012, Caja Laboral sent Musli to his Serbian homeland to KK Mega in the capital Belgrade and then ended the five-year contract early at the end of the season. Mega missed the play-offs for the championship as sixth in the Serbian main round. After the termination of his previous contract, Musli was signed for the new season by local rivals and serial champions KK Partizan, where he now also received more stakes with higher game shares in the Euroleague. Under coach returnee Duško Vujošević , a rejuvenated Belgrade team lost the decisive final group game for a place in the intermediate round of the Euroleague 2012/13 only after extra time against the German champions Brose Baskets . One season later, Partizan did better and reached the now expanded intermediate round of the 16 best teams in the Euroleague 2013/14 , in which they had to be content with four wins in 14 games. In the 2012/13 season, Partizan was able to defend his title in the Serbian championship and the supranational ABA league 2012/13 except for the cup competition, which was lost in the final against the regained local rivals KK Roter Stern Belgrade ; in the 2013/14 season finally only managed to defend the title in the Serbian championship thanks to a furious playing Bogdan Bogdanović . However, the semi-final defeat in the ABA League 2013/14 also meant that Partizan no longer played in the Euroleague the following season.

For the following 2014/15 season, Bogdanović, like many other talented Partizan players, moved abroad. The financially tight club could no longer compensate for this bloodletting as before and finally retired in the Eurocup 2014/15 after only three wins in ten games after the preliminary round. Because of outstanding salary payments, Musli fell out with his club and at the end of the year switched back to local rivals Mega, which now traded as Mega Leks with a new name sponsor . In their second participation in the ABA league, the team from Mega reached a tenth place in the ABA league 2014/15 . In the Serbian championship they were able to secure themselves again in fourth place in the ABA league, but lost the play-off semi-final series against the new title winner Red Star. For the following 2015/16 season, Musli started a new attempt in the Spanish ACB league and signed a distribution with the Catalan club from Manresa , which had been relegated in the two seasons before and only kept the class due to a lack of promoted players. Contrary to his experience in his first one and a half years abroad in 2010 and 2011, Musli was able to convince right away and was awarded MVP as the most valuable player of the month October 2015 based on his effectiveness in the first month of the ACB season 2015/16.

In the following season Musli moved to Unicaja Málaga . By winning the final of the EuroCup 2016/17 against league competitor Valencia Basket Club , Málaga was eligible to participate in the EuroLeague 2017/18 .

In December 2017, the German champion and EuroLeague participant Brose Bamberg signed the Serbs until the end of the season.

Web links

Commons : Dejan Musli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ACB.COM: Dejan Musli - player profile on the websites of the ACB League ( Spanish )
• MUSLI, DEJAN - Player profile on the website of the Euro League ( English )
• Dejan Musli - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• ABA - Player: Dejan Musli - Profile on the statistics pages of the ABA League (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Igor Petrinović: Euroleague profiles: Dejan Musli, Partizan NIS Belgrade. Euroleague , October 25, 2013, accessed April 5, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Serbia Hold Off France To Win Title. FIBA Europa , August 2, 2009, accessed April 5, 2016 (English, media information). 
3. ↑ Musli Named MVP. FIBA Europe , July 29, 2007, accessed on April 5, 2016 (English, media information). 
4. ^ Kanter Named MVP. FIBA Europa , August 2, 2009, accessed April 5, 2016 (English, media information). 
5. ↑ Caja Laboral Vitoria vs. Partizan mt: s Belgrade. Euroleague , December 23, 2010, accessed April 5, 2016 (English, match report and statistics). 
6. ↑ EFE : El pívot Dejan Musli descarta su retorno como cedido al Sutor Montegranaro. (No longer available online.) El Norte de Castilla , March 18, 2011, archived from the original on April 5, 2016 ; Retrieved April 5, 2016 (Spanish). 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.  
7. ↑ EFE : El Fuenlabrada devuelve al Caja Laboral al casi inédito Dejan Musli. Marca , November 9, 2011, accessed April 5, 2016 (Spanish). 
8. ↑ David Hein: Bamberg prevails in OT thriller to reach Top 16. Euroleague , December 13, 2012, accessed on April 5, 2016 (English). 
9. ↑ Benjamin Strüh: Brose Baskets make TOP16 entry. Nürnberger Nachrichten : nordbayern.de, December 14, 2012, accessed on April 5, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Basketball Arbitral Tribunal: ARBITRAL AWARD (BAT 0609/14): Musli vs. Basketball Club Partizan. (PDF (61 KB)) goldengate-law.com, December 18, 2014, accessed on April 5, 2016 (English, arbitration judgment ). 
11. ^ Dejan Musli, MVP Movistar + de Octubre. Liga ACB , October 28, 2015, accessed April 5, 2016 (Spanish, media info).