Igor Jovović

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Igor Jovović (born October 16, 1982 in Podgorica ) is a Montenegrin basketball coach . He has been a trainer at Telekom Baskets Bonn since July 2020 .

career

Jovović worked from 2007 as an assistant coach of the top Montenegrin club KK Budućnost Podgorica and was promoted to head coach in April 2013. He held this position until November 2015. During his time as assistant and then head coach, Jovović won the national championship of Montenegro seven times (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) and six times the national cup competition (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015). During this period (2011, 2012, 2015) the team reached the semi-finals of the international Adriatic Basketball League three times . From the internet service eurobasket.com he was named “Coach of the Year” of the Montenegrin League in the 2014/15 season. In November 2015 he resigned as Podgorica's coach for personal reasons. Between January and March 2016, he was the head coach of another first division club in Montenegro, KK Sutjeska Nikšić .

In addition to his duties as a club coach, he was among other things during the European Championships in 2008 and 2009 as a "Co" to the coaching staff of the Montenegrin U20 national team. At the B-EM 2015 in the U20 age range, he worked as head coach and led the selection of his home country to the semi-finals. In 2012 Jovović also acted as assistant coach for the senior national team and in 2013 as head coach of the B national team.

In May 2016, Jovović was hired as head coach by the Central German BC , who had previously been relegated from the basketball Bundesliga to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA . He led the MBC to win the ProA championship title in spring 2017 and thus to (re-) promotion to the Bundesliga. During the 2018 summer break, Jovović used a release clause in his contract to leave the MBC and move to the Polish first division club Stelmet Zielona Góra . After one season, Jovović and the Polish team separated in July 2019. For the 2019/20 season he moved to FC Bayern Munich and became assistant coach there.

In July 2020, Jovović signed a two-year contract as head coach with Bundesliga club Telekom Baskets Bonn .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coach Profile . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed March 14, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Montenegrin Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - eurobasket.com . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed March 14, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Alo !: KK Budućnost ostaje bez trenera! In: alo . ( alo.rs [accessed March 14, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Jovović Novi trener košarkaša Sutjeske . In: Blic.rs . January 24, 2016 ( blic.rs [accessed March 14, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Igor Jovovic takes Mitteldeutsche BC. schoenen-dunk.de, accessed on March 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Birger Zentner: Middle German BC: Igor Jovovic is now training the MBC . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on March 14, 2017]).
  7. ↑ LVZ-Online: ProA - Mitteldeutscher BC wins title in the 2nd basketball league - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Trainer Jovovic leaves the MBC - MBC . In: MBC . June 7, 2018 ( Mitteldeutscherbc.de [accessed June 7, 2018]).
  9. ↑ https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/koszykowka/833971/ebl-stelmet-enea-bc-zielona-gora-igor-jovovic-w-separacji-markel-starks-odchodzi
  10. ↑ Team rearranged behind the team. In: FC Bayern Munich Basketball GmbH. October 6, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Igor Jovović becomes the new head coach. In: Telekom Baskets Bonn. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jovović, Igor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jovovic, Igor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Montenegrin basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Podgorica