Leon Radosevic

Leon Radosevic
Player information
birthday	February 26, 1990
place of birth	Sisak , SFR Yugoslavia
size	209 cm
position	Center / Power Forward
Club information
society	FC Bayern Munich
league	BBL
Jersey number	43
Clubs as active
2009–2011 KK Cibona Zagreb 2011–2013 EA7 Armani Milan 2012–2013 → Lietuvos rytas Vilnius 2013–2015 Alba Berlin 2015 Beşiktaş Istanbul 2015–2018 Brose Bamberg Since 2018 FC Bayern Munich 0000– -
National team
	Croatia

Leon Radošević (born February 26, 1990 in Sisak , SR Croatia ) is a German - Croatian basketball player . After two championships at a young age with KK Cibona in his home country, Radošević played in Italy and Lithuania before moving to the basketball Bundesliga in 2013/14 to the German cup winner ALBA Berlin . With this club he was able to defend the title in the Beko BBL Cup 2014 . He then played for series champion Brose Bamberg for three years before moving to FC Bayern Munich .

Career

Radošević celebrated his first major successes in his youth with the Croatian youth teams, with whom he won a bronze medal at the U18 European Championship in 2008. Together in a team with Mario Delaš , among others , they lost the semi-finals at the following U19 World Cup by just four points against the eventual world champions from the United States , who remained undefeated and won their narrowest tournament victory against the Croatians. In the game for the bronze medal you won against the Australian selection, against which you had lost in the preliminary round. Radošević was then a permanent member of the senior squad of KK Cibona from the capital Zagreb , with whom he won the championship and cup double in Croatia in 2009. In the supranational ABA league 2009/10 Cibona reached first place after the main round after the runner-up in the previous year, but lost again the final against KK Partizan Belgrade after extra time in front of their own audience . In the Croatian championship you could defend your title. Then the club had to accept the departures of important players such as Marko Tomas and Lukša Andrić and could not follow up on the previous successes in the 2010/11 season. After they had just reached the round of the best 16 teams in the most important European club competition ULEB Euroleague in the 2009/10 season , they remained in the preliminary round of the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 in ten games without a single win.

For the 2011/12 season, in addition to Bojan Bogdanović , Radošević KK Cibona left and moved to the Lega Basket Serie A for Italian record champions Olimpia from Milan , who competed under the sponsor name EA7 Emporio Armani. In Milan, Radošević again had to be content with significantly less playing time and the team only narrowly missed the quarter-final play-offs in the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 . In the Italian championship they reached the final series for the championship for the first time after five years, which was lost after only one win in five games against series champion Montepaschi Siena . At the beginning of the 2012/13 season, Radošević was loaned to the Lithuanian runner-up Lietuvos rytas from the capital Vilnius , who, like Milan, was eliminated in the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 after the preliminary round. Therefore, Radošević returned to Milan in mid-January 2013, where he and his team, finishing fourth in the main round, were defeated this time in the first play-off round in just under seven games against the defending champions and eventual champions Siena. For the 2013/14 season Radošević was signed by the German cup winner Alba from Berlin for two years. With the team Radošević did not play in the Euroleague for the first time in four years, but reached the quarter-finals of the Eurocup 2013/14 , which was lost to Valencia Basket Club , with longer playing times than his previous teams . At the Beko BBL-Pokal 2014 the team was able to defeat the host ratiopharm Ulm and defend the title in a new edition of the previous year 's final . In the national championship, however, they lost the final series of the basketball Bundesliga 2013/14 against the new champions FC Bayern Munich . As the German runner-up, you received an invitation in the form of a wildcard to participate in the ULEB Euroleague 2014/15 , where you were the first German team in the ULEB era to be the first German team in the ULEB era to move into the quarter-final play-offs on the last intermediate round match. But after the home defeat to defending champion Maccabi Tel Aviv , this prestigious success was missed. A title defense in the national cup competition and the renewed entry into the championship final series also failed when they lost the all-important game of the semi-final series at home after extra time to defending champion FC Bayern.

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, Radošević initially had a two-month contract with Beşiktaş JK from Istanbul , for which he played in the Eurocup 2015/16 as well as in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi . After the contract expired, he returned to the German league and played for the reigning German champions Brose Bamberg for the next three years , with whom he was champion in 2016 and even a double winner in 2017 . With Bamberg, he also competed in the EuroLeague and became a German citizen in 2017, which is why he was no longer one of the six foreigners that could be used in the BBL per game. After the disappointing 2017/18 season at Upper Franconia, Radošević decided, in view of the impending upheaval in Bamberg, combined with the voluntary relegation from the EuroCup to the Champions League, to opt out and join Bayern Munich in order to continue to compete at the highest European level .

successes

• German champion : 2016 , 2017
• German Cup Winner : 2013 , 2014 , 2017

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Leon Radosevic - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• RADOSEVIC, LEON - player profile on the website of the Euroleague ( English )
• Leon Radošević - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bblprofis.de/index.php/2017/08/22/leon-radosevic-ab-sofort-mit-deutscher-staatsbuergerschaft-und-playerlaubnis/
2. ↑ Legabasket: Leon Radosevic. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed April 24, 2014 (Italian, player profile). 
3. ↑ Benedikt Voigt: Alba Berlin brings Leon Radosevic: Agile and young. Der Tagesspiegel , July 31, 2013, accessed on April 24, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Radošević, Leon - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed on December 13, 2015 (English, player profile on statistics pages ). 
5. ↑ Brose Bamberg Basketball | Leon Radosevic is a German citizen. Retrieved July 20, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Radosevic: "Stoschek was a little pissed off" | BASKETBALL.DE . In: BASKETBALL.DE . July 10, 2018 ( basketball.de [accessed July 20, 2018]). Radosevic: "Stoschek was a little pissed off" | BASKETBALL.DE ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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.