Jurica Golemac

Jurica Golemac
Player information
birthday	May 29, 1977
place of birth	Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
size	209 cm
position	Power forward
Clubs as active
1996–1997 KK Zrinjevac Zagreb 1997–2002 KK Union Olimpija Ljubljana 1998–1999 → KD Slovan 2002–2003 Efes Pilsen Istanbul 2003–2004 KK Cibona Zagreb 2004–2006 Ural Great Perm 2006–2007 Hapoel Jerusalem 2007–2008 Paris-Levallois Basket 2008 –2009 Panellinios Athens 2009 Virtus Lottomatica Rome 2009 Panathinaikos Athens 2009–2010 ALBA Berlin 2010 KK Zadar 2010–2011 Kolossos Rhodes 2011–2012 Sidigas Avellino 2012 KK Krka Novo mesto 00000 00000 00000 00000
National team
2000-2009	Slovenia
Clubs as coaches
Since 02013 KK Cibona ( AC )

Jurica Golemac (born May 29, 1977 in Zagreb , SR Croatia ) is a former Slovenian basketball player with Croatian citizenship. The Slovenian international played for various clubs across Europe, but usually only for a short period of time. Golemac's greatest successes include winning the FIBA EuroCup Challenge 2005/06 with Ural Great Perm, the ABA-Liga 2002 and two doubles with Union Olimpija Ljubljana, as well as winning the Turkish championship with Efes Pilsen in 2003. He also won other cup competitions in Slovenia and Israel . After retiring in 2013, Golemac became a trainer and began his new career at KK Cibona in his hometown.

Career

Golemac made his debut in his hometown at the age of 19 at KK Zrinjevac Zagreb, where he was used as a supplementary player in the first season and averaged 2.8 points in eleven games. After a year there, he moved to Slovenia, where he signed a contract with KK Olimpija Ljubljana, but first went basket-hunting in the farm team in the second division and then moved to KD Slovan on loan. Due to good performances there, the approximately two hundredweight heavy power forward quickly made the leap into Ljubljana's first team after his return and was also able to establish himself there. After winning the cup in 2000, the Slovenian double from the championship and the cup competition was won in the following two years and also gained important experience in the ULEB Euroleague . The greatest success during this period was winning the ABA league in its debut season in 2002.

After a total of five years in Slovenia, Golemac moved to Turkey to Efes Pilsen in 2002 , where he became Turkish champion, and after a year returned to his native Croatia , this time to Cibona Zagreb, where he played in the 2003/04 season. After two years for Ural Great in Russia , where they won the FIBA EuroCup Challenge in the 2005/06 season , Golemac played in the 2006/07 season in the Israeli Ligat ha'Al for Hapoel from Jerusalem , with whom he won the national cup competition could. This was followed by further positions in France at Paris-Levallois and Greece , where he played for a total of 3 months at the Euroleague winner Panathinaikos Athens at the beginning of the 2009/2010 season, where he stood in for injured regular players.

In December 2009 Golemac joined the Bundesliga team ALBA Berlin, where he made his debut in the catch-up game against TBB Trier . On May 11, 2010, one day before ALBA Berlin's important second game in the play-off quarter-finals against Deutsche Bank Skyliners , Golemac was suspended for disciplinary reasons and did not take part in any of the other play-off games. He then signed a contract with KK Zadar in Croatia. Here, too, he was released from his contract after two months as a result of a dispute with the coach in October 2010. Then Golemac played again in the Greek A1 Ethniki for Kolossos from Rhodes , with whom he just reached the play-offs for the championship, in which they were eliminated in the first round against Olympiacos .

After Golemac was already briefly active in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A for Virtus Lottomatica Rome in 2009 , he played again in the league for Sidigas from Avellino in the 2011/12 season . In ninth place, however, they narrowly missed entry into the championship play-offs. Golemac then played his last season as an active player in his adopted Slovenian home with the champions KK Krka from Novo mesto . But soon after the start of the season, he finally ended his career. Krka was able to reactivate Matjaž Smodiš instead , who again won the championship with Krka in his last season. After initially working as a commentator in the media, he became a coaching assistant at KK Cibona in his hometown for the 2013/14 season .

With the receipt of the Slovenian second passport, Golemac was also an integral part of the Slovenian national team , with which he took part in the European Championship finals in 2003, 2005 and 2009 . At the European Championship finals in 2009 , he reached fourth place with Slovenia and narrowly missed a medal.

successes

• 2000: Winning the Slovenian Cup with BC Olimpija Ljubljana
• 2001: Winning the Slovenian Championship and the Slovenian Cup with BC Olimpija Ljubljana
• 2002: Winning the Slovenian Championship and the Slovenian Cup with BC Olimpija Ljubljana
• 2002: Winning the Adriatic League with BC Olimpija Ljubljana
• 2003: Winning the Turkish championship with Efes Pilsen
• 2006: Winning the FIBA EuroCup with Ural Great Perm
• 2007: Winning the Israeli Cup with Hapoel Jerusalem
• 2009: Fourth place at the 2009 European Championships in Poland

Web links

• Golemac, JURICA - Player profile on the sides of the ULEB ( English )
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Jurica GOLEMAC (SLO) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• easyCredit BBL - Jurica Golemac - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jurica Golemac - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed on October 5, 2011 (English, player profile). 
2. ^ Ural Great Claim Trophy Despite Final Loss. FIBA Europa , March 23, 2006, accessed January 19, 2014 (English, match report). 
3. ↑ Jurica Golemac - Paris-Levallois - Joueurs - Pro A: 2007/2008 season. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed 19 January 2014 (French, player profile). 
4. ↑ Christian Schwager: 32, happy to travel, willing to play. Berliner Zeitung , December 18, 2009, accessed on January 19, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Alba suspends Jurica Golemac. BZ , May 10, 2010, accessed October 5, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Ex-Alba: Golemac fired again. BZ , October 27, 2010, accessed October 28, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Legabasket: Jurica Golemac. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed January 19, 2014 (Italian, player profile). 
8. ^ I share the basketball philosophy with Rimac. (No longer available online.) Adriatic Basketball Association , December 4, 2013, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on January 19, 2014 (English / Croatian). 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.