Mladen Drijenčić

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Mladen Drijenčić (born July 9, 1965 in Vareš ) is a German basketball coach of Bosnian-Herzegovinian origin. He is the head coach of the German first division club EWE Baskets Oldenburg .

Coaching career

Drijenčić began his career as a full-time coach at SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen . He looked after youth teams and the club's first men's team, which he led, among other things, to promotion to the 1st regional league.

In 2009 he was appointed to the coaching staff of the German U18 national team for the first time and was part of the team for the European Championship in France as an assistant coach. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 he also took part in European Championship tournaments as assistant coach of the German U18 team.

In 2010 he was signed by the Oldenburg TB , took over the club's regional league team as head coach and also worked in the youth field. In 2012, he led the men's team as a master of the first Regionalliga Nord for promotion to the third highest German basketball class 2. Bundesliga Pro B . The name of the team had been changed to Baskets Akademie Weser-Ems / Oldenburger TB and underlined the character of a talent factory for the Oldenburg Bundesliga team.

In the 2012/13 season, "BAWE / OTB" managed to move into the championship round as fourth in the table in the northern season of Pro B , where they were eliminated in the first round. Drijenčić was named the best coach of the season by the Internet portal Eurobasket.com.

In the following season (2013/14) he led the team to the Pro-B championship title, again Drijenčić received the award of coach of the year from Eurobasket.com. But the club decided not to move up to the Pro A .

At the 2013 European Championships he was an assistant to the then national coach Frank Menz on the staff of the German national team.

In the 2014/15 season Drijenčić had led "BAWE / OTB" to the Pro B playoff quarter-finals before he was promoted to head coach of the Bundesliga team EWE Baskets Oldenburg in March 2015 after Sebastian Machowski had been fired. His successor in the Pro-B team, Christian Held , then led the Oldenburg junior team to win the Pro B title again .

A few weeks after taking office, Drijenčić won the German cup competition with EWE Baskets Oldenburg in his own hall . In the Bundesliga championship round, Oldenburg was eliminated under Drijenčić in the quarter-finals.

On May 27, 2015, his contract with EWE Baskets Oldenburg was extended for the following season, 2015/16. In January 2016 he signed a new contract until 2017 and extended it in February 2017 to 2018.

At the beginning of May 2018, Drijenčić was given a further contract extension by the Oldenburg team, he signed a new working paper that will run until 2020. He led the team to the semi-finals in the 2018/19 game year, where they lost to Berlin.

Personal

Drijenčić comes from the Croatian minority in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He fled to Germany in 1994. In Krefeld he worked as a mechanical engineer and played basketball in the regional league at BBC Krefeld and later at SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen .

His son Robert is a basketball player and is in the squad of the third division Baskets Akademie Weser-Ems / Oldenburger TB.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ By Jens Behler: Mladen Drijenčić: Basketball means everything to him. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  2. ^ German Basketball Association: U18 boys complete a fitness course . In: www.basketball-bund.de. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ U18 European Championship Men (2009) | FIBA Europe. In: www.fibaeurope.com. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  4. ^ Senthuran Sivananda: Drijenčić is leaving SC Bayer 05. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Basketball: Mladen Drijenčić succeeds Glasauer. In: NWZonline. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Master list - Basketball Regionalliga Nord. In: www.rln-basketball.de. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  7. ↑ PROB_2012-2013 Basketball League GERMANY - eurobasket.com. In: www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ PROB_2013-2014 Basketball League GERMANY - eurobasket.com. In: www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  9. ↑ FOCUS Online: Three new assistants for national coach Menz. In: FOCUS Online. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  10. ↑ NDR: Oldenburg separates from Coach Machowski. In: www.ndr.de. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Basketball: New head coach relies on Drijenčić's formula for success. In: NWZonline. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Oldenburg is a cup winner - Baskets Oldenburg. (No longer available online.) In: www.radiobremen.de. Archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  13. ↑ Oldenburg: Play-off with applause - Baskets Oldenburg. (No longer available online.) In: www.radiobremen.de. Archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  14. ↑ EWE Baskets Oldenburg: With Mladen Drijenčić into the future. (No longer available online.) In: ewe-baskets.de. Archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ewe-baskets.de
  15. ↑ Sport1.de: EWE Baskets Oldenburg extend with Mladen Drijenčić. In: Sport1.de. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  16. ↑ EWE Baskets Oldenburg: Early contract extension: Into the future with Drijencic! (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 18, 2017 ; accessed on February 18, 2017 (German). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ewe-baskets.de
  17. ↑ https://www.nwzonline.de/basketball/vertrag-bis-2020-baskets-oldenburg-verlaengern-mit-trainer-drijencic_a_50,1,2148137868.html
  18. ↑ New edition! Albatrosses are again in the final against Munich after 100: 89 against Oldenburg. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Florian Lütticke and Oliver Schaulandt: Local sport: 'Mr. Basketball 'Drijenčić: From work visa to cup win. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Basketball: Drijenčić junior emulates father. In: NWZonline. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  21. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Player. In: www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Drijenčić, Mladen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Herzegovinian basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Vareš