Faruk Kulenović

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Faruk Kulenović (born February 23, 1952 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian basketball coach .

career

Kulenović was a basketball player at Mladost Zagreb, at the age of 21 he began his coaching career in the youth field at KK Medveščak Zagreb. He then worked at KK Borovo Vukovar. In 1975 he completed a sports degree in Zagreb. In the late 1970s and 1980s he stayed in the United States regularly , interned with teams at school, university and professional levels, and traveled with Yugoslav youth teams through the USA, during which they competed against US teams. In 1981, at the age of 29, he became the coach of the Yugoslav first division club KK Šibenka Šibenik . He led the team that Dražen Petrović  belonged to in the 1981/82 season in the final of the European club competition Korać Cup , where they were defeated by Limoges from France .

The cooperation with KK Šibenka came to an end after one season, from 1982 to 1985 he was a coach at KK Kvarner Rijeka , followed by two years at KK Pula (1985 to 1987). 1987/88 Kulenović Hapoel Jerusalem trained in the first division of Israel , in 1988/89 then in a second term KK Šibenka Šibenik. For the world basketball association FIBA , he was also the head of youth training camps and trainer training courses and held the latter in Ethiopia  and Yemen, among others . In addition to his club duties, Kulenović was a manager at a basketball academy in Pula from 1985 to 1990 .

In 1990 Kulenović took on the position of coach at BG Charlottenburg in the basketball league . The move to Germany came about  thanks to the mediation of Svetislav Pešić , the German national coach at the time. He led the BG to the German runner-up in 1991. With the Berliners he also took part in the European Korać Cup. In Berlin, Kulenović relied on a tactical approach that his Leverkusen coaching colleague Dirk Bauermann  classified as an "ugly way of playing". Kulenović himself later said, looking back on the 1990/91 season, that his team had played "the ugliest basketball in the world," but that it was essential to win games to attract spectators as the club's economic situation was difficult. In the 1991/92 season Charlottenburg first appeared as Alba Berlin . Kulenović reached the final series of the German championship again with the team with players like Uwe Blab , Emir Mutapčić , John Dronsella and Matthias Strauss , but lost there as in the previous year against Bayer Leverkusen . During Kulenović's tenure in Berlin, the cooperation with TuS Lichterfelde was initiated, and he himself trained regularly with Lichterfeld's young players. Kulenović stayed in Berlin until 1993, in the 1992/93 season he was eliminated with the team in the Bundesliga quarter-finals.

In 1993/94 he was the coach of the Turkish first division club Fenerbahçe Istanbul , with whom he lost in the championship semi-final against Efes Pilsen . In 1994 and 1995 he was the national coach of Bosnia and Herzegovina . He then worked again in Croatia: at KK Zrinjevac Zagreb (1995/96), KK Svjetlost Brod (1997 to 1999) and again at KK Zrinjevac Zagreb (1999/2000). In 2000, Kulenović took up the position of coach at Ohud Medina in Saudi Arabia  , which he exercised in the 2000/01 season, from 2002 to 2006 he was active in youth work in Adapazarı, Turkey .

In 2006 he moved to Darüşşafaka Kulübü in Turkey, where he was responsible for the management of youth work. He later worked in the youth department of the İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi BK (İTÜ BK) association.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e Faruk Kulenovic Results. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Faruk Kulenovic Biography. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Slobodna Dalmacija - Hrvatska košarkaška legenda progovorila o problemima koji dugo muče naš trofejni sport: 'Trgovci i suci sve su upropastili, klubovi su prestali proizvoditi igrače i sve se urušilo'. November 12, 2019, accessed on July 6, 2020 (hr-hr).
  4. ^ Korac Cup 1981-82. In: Pearl Basket. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d 25 years of Alba Berlin Basketball. A chronicle. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  6. ^ Korac Cup 1990-91. In: Pearl Basket. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Horst Schneider: The Balkans in the Bundesliga . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 132-135 .
  8. ↑ a b Horst Schneider: All seasons at a glance . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 205-209 .
  9. ↑ Fenerbahce Beko - Turkish Basketball Super League Team. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ http://free-zg.htnet.hr/Faruk/results.html
  11. ↑ Basketbol ... - Darüşşafaka, Altyapısının Başına Hırvat Antrenör Faruk Kulenoviç'i Getirdi. Retrieved July 6, 2020 (Turkish).
  12. ↑ İTÜ yıldızlarını seçmeyle bulacak. Retrieved July 6, 2020 (Turkish).
personal data
SURNAME Kulenović, Faruk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kulenovic, Faruk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb