Nebojša Bogavac

Nebojša Bogavac
Nebojša Bogavac (2013)
Player information
birthday	December 14, 1973
place of birth	Bijelo Polje, SFR Yugoslavia
size	198 cm
position	Small forward
Clubs as active
1997–2001 KK Lovćen Cetinje 2001–2005 KK Hemofarm Vršac 2005–2006 Leche Río Breogán 2006–2008 Le Mans Sarthe Basket 2008–2009 KK Lovćen Cetinje 2009 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2009 Gorstak Kolašin 2009–2010 JDA Dijon 2010 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 000 0 000 0 000 0
National team
Until 2006, 2006–2009 00	Serbia and Montenegro Montenegro

Nebojša Bogavac (born December 14, 1973 in Bijelo Polje , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Montenegrin basketball player . In addition to his native country and one season in the Spanish ACB league Bogavac was particularly in the French LNB Pro A active. The 2003 European Championship participant won the Adria League (ABA) with KK Hemofarm in 2005 and the French championship with ASVEL in 2009 .

Bogavac played at KK Lovćen from Cetinje until 2001 before he was signed by the Serbian Korać Cup finalist KK Hemofarm from Vršac . With this club he reached the Serbian-Montenegrin Cup final once in 2003 and was twice runner-up in 2004 and 2005, each after defeat against KK Partizan Belgrade . But you could defeat Partizan in the final of the ABA in 2005, in which Bogavac was awarded as MVP of the final and as the best defender of the ABA season 2004/05, and celebrate the club's first title win. In the semifinals of the ULEB Cup 2004/05 they gambled away in the second leg against Makedonikos a 23-point lead from the first leg and retired after the 65-96 defeat in Kozani . Then the Serbian-Montenegrin international , who had finished sixth with the national team in the final round of the 2003 European basketball championship in Sweden after losing in the quarter-finals to the eventual title holder Lithuania , went abroad to Spain.

With Leche Río Breogán , the sponsor name of the basketball club from the Galician Lugo , Bogavac had little success and they rose from the top division after the 2005/06 season as the bottom of the table. He himself was able to achieve the title of best distance thrower at the ACB Showtime weekend in the three-point throwing competition. He then moved to the French champions MSB from Le Mans . After defending champions were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the championship play-offs in the 2006/07 season , things went better in the 2007/08 season than they were able to finish the regular season as first in the table. In the play-off semi-final series against defending champion Chorale Roanne Basket , however, they were eliminated. In the top European league ULEB Euroleague they were eliminated after the preliminary round.

In the 2008/09 season he returned to KK Lovćen in Montenegro, before moving back to ASVEL from Lyon in February 2009 in the French league. With the French record champions, he was not only first in regular time, but also champion in the championship play-offs. At the end of the season, the contract ended and he was initially active in the 2009/10 season with the Montenegrin first division club Gorstak from Kolašin , before the French first division team Jeanne d'Arc from Dijon in Burgundy took him under contract in December 2009 . But even a coach change to the Finnish and former German national coach Henrik Dettmann a month later did not help to save the club from relegation, which he had to start bottom of the table at the end of the season. From October to December 2010, Bogavac then had another contract with ASVEL.

Web links

• Bogavac, NEBOJSA - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• Nebojsa Bogavac - Lyon-Villeurbanne - Joueurs - Pro A - LNB.fr - player profile on the pages of the French LNB (French)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Nebojsa BOGAVAC (MNE) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ACB: N. Bogavac. ACB League , accessed September 25, 2011 (Spanish, ACB player profile).