Dragan Milosavljevic

Dragan Milosavljevic
Dragan Milosavljević (2018)
Player information
birthday	May 11, 1989
place of birth	Kruševac, SFR Yugoslavia
size	198 cm
position	Small Forward / Shooting Guard
Club information
society	Unicaja Málaga
league	ACB
Jersey number	12
Clubs as active
2006–2009 Napredak Kruševac 2009–2010 KK Radnički Kragujevac 2010–2015 KK Partizan Belgrade 2015–2017 Alba Berlin Since 2017 Unicaja Málaga 0
National team
Since 02012	Serbia

Dragan Milosavljević ( Serbian - Cyrillic Драган Милосављевић ; born May 11, 1989 in Kruševac , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian basketball player . The Serbian international played in his homeland until 2015, where he won four championships with the former series champion KK Partizan Belgrade, in 2013 he was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the final series, and won two national cup titles. At the 2015 European Championship finals , Milosavljević was also represented in a men 's final squad for the first time, after which he moved to Alba Berlin in the top German basketball division .

Career

Milosavljević began his career with his home club Napredak Rubin in his hometown, with whom he only narrowly missed entry into the championship round of the eight best teams after placing first in the lower third of the table of the preliminary round of the Serbian league. With the Serbian junior selection he won the European Championship finals in Rhodes in 2009 with just two points difference against the German selection with his future Berlin teammate Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann , but after defeats against Croatia and Montenegro, among others, the Serbian selection finished eleventh Place a rather poor placement for their claims. He then moved within Serbia to the more ambitious league preliminary round winner, who had moved from Vršac to Kragujevac as KK Radnički because of his first participation in the supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) . At the premiere in the ABA League 2009/10 , the team reached eleventh and fourth from bottom and qualified as third in the championship round, for which you were directly qualified as an ABA League participant, for the play-offs of the Serbian championship. In the semi-final series they lost to their former local rivals KK Hemofarm Vršac .

For the 2010/11 season, Milosavljević was brought to the capital Belgrade by the dominant Serbian champions Partizan , who also had to reinstall younger talents in his squad for financial reasons under the new head coach Vlada Jovanović. In the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , the team qualified for the intermediate round of the 16 best teams, in which, however, they only won the last group game at Efes Pilsen Istanbul , which has become meaningless . The team was able to defend all three titles in the ABA League and in the national championship and cup competition. As a Partizan player, Milosavljević was also able to play in the extended national squad of the Serbian men's selection , for which he was used in two of five games at the Olympic dress rehearsal in London 2011. In the following season Partizan got problems in the front court after the departure of Jan Veselý and the return of Nikola Peković after the end of the lockout in the NBA . So it was not enough to qualify for the intermediate round of the Euroleague or to defend the title in the ABA League, won by the visiting team Maccabi Tel Aviv . At the national level, the team with, among others, Miroslav Raduljica , who had previously become German runner-up with Alba Berlin in 2011, was able to keep the competition going and defend the national double . In the following season, a rejuvenated team under coach returnees Duško Vujošević lost the decisive final group game for a place in the intermediate round of the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 only after extra time against the German champions Brose Baskets . In the ABA league 2012/13 without Maccabi, the title holder was fourth in the main round in the Final Four tournament and won the final series of the championship against local rivals KK Red Star Belgrade , after which Milosavljević was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) has been. After the defeat in the cup final against the same opponent, in which Partizan missed the sixth double success in a row, there were indications that with the Red Star the series champion was again a serious competitor on a national level.

After the departure of the same age teammate Vladimir Lučić , with whom Milosavljević had already played in the junior team and who, like many of his colleagues before, moved abroad, Milosavljević was already one of the oldest players in the Partizan squad in the 2013/14 season and became Team captain appointed. He initially led his team successfully and scored 26 points on the second match day of the ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 , his personal best in a game in a continental European club competition in a 73:43 victory over French champions JSF Nanterre , who at the end of the Preliminary round thanks to the better direct comparison, the qualification for the intermediate round decided. In this second group stage, however, Partizan only managed four wins in 14 games in extended groups, including a home win against German representative FC Bayern Munich after Milosavljević tore a cruciate ligament in January and was injured until the end of the season. After the title in the ABA league was lost in the semi-finals, the team was able to defend the championship against the renewed cup winner Red Star only thanks to a furious playing Bogdan Bogdanović , who then also moved abroad. A possible move abroad came to nothing for Milosavljević, who preferred to try his comeback after the injury at home. After missing the final in the ABA League, Partizan played in the Eurocup 2014/15 , in which the team was eliminated after the preliminary round after only three wins in ten games. In the semi-finals of the ABA League and the national cup competition they lost to arch rivals Red Star, who also won the final series of the championship without losing to Partizan. In addition to teammate Milan Mačvan , captain Milosavljević also left the financially struggling club, which had won 13 national championships in a row from 2002 to 2014, and moved to the first division club Alba Berlin in the German capital.

In the summer of 2015, Milosavljević was now also represented in the Serbian men's squad at an official final tournament. Serbia won the group stage at the start of the 2015 European Championship finals without defeat at Milosavljević's new home ground in Berlin, the Mercedes-Benz Arena . With the exception of the narrow success against hosts Germany , Milosavljević was used in every game, but mostly only for a few minutes. In the final round in the knockout system in Lille , Vice World Champion Serbia missed a medal after losing in the "small final" against hosts and defending champions France . Due to participation in the finals, Milosavljević had practically no preparation for the season with his club team for the 2015/16 Basketball Bundesliga, which began ten days later . Nevertheless, the season got off to a good start and in the Eurocup 2015/16 Milosavljević was named “Player of the Week” on the basis of his effectiveness on the second match day. For the 2017/18 season, Milosavljević moved to the Spanish ACB for Unicaja Málaga.

Web links

Commons : Dragan Milosavljević  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• easyCredit BBL - Dragan Milosavljevic - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• MILOSAVLJEVIC, DRAGAN - Player profile on the website of the Eurocup ( English )
• Dragan Milosavljević - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• ABA - Player: Dragan Milosavljević - Profile on the statistics pages of the ABA League (English)

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Benjamin Strüh: Brose Baskets make TOP16 entry. Nürnberger Nachrichten : nordbayern.de, December 14, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Partizan shines at both ends in routing Nanterre. Euroleague , October 25, 2013, accessed on January 17, 2016 . 
4. ^ Partizan NIS loses Milosavljevic. Euroleague , January 25, 2014, accessed on January 17, 2016 (English, media information). 
5. ↑ Sebastian Kayser: "Alba wanted to get me a year ago". BZ , September 23, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016 (interview). 
6. ↑ Christian Schwager: Dragan Milosavljevic is coming for two years. Berliner Zeitung , June 25, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Eurocup Round 2 MVP: Dragan Milosavljevic, ALBA Berlin. Eurocup , October 22, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016 (English, media information). 
8. ↑ Alba Berlin: Milosavljevic is drawn to Spain . In: Alba Berlin . ( albaberlin.de [accessed on March 6, 2018]).