Petar Naumoski

Petar Naumoski
Player information
birthday	August 27, 1968 (52 years and 4 days)
place of birth	Prilep, SFR Yugoslavia
size	194 cm
position	Point guard
Clubs as active
1989–1991 Jugoplastika / POP 84 Split 1991–1992 KK Rabotnički Skopje 1992–1994 Efes Pilsen SK 1994–1995 Benetton Treviso 1995–1999 Efes Pilsen SK 2000–2001 Benetton Treviso 2002 Montepaschi Siena 2002–2004 Olimpia Milano 2004 Ülkerspor 000 0 000 0
National team
Since 1992	Macedonia

Petar Naumoski ( Macedonian Петар Наумоски ; born August 27, 1968 in Prilep , SR Macedonia ) is a former North Macedonian basketball player and politician. Naumoski is considered one of the best European playmakers in basketball of the 1990s and is particularly admired in Turkey , as he led the first Turkish club team to win a European Cup with the Korać Cup in 1996 . During his playing days, Naumoski was naturalized in Turkey and Italy . Between 2002 and 2006 he was a member of the North Macedonian parliament within the group of the VMRO-DPMNE .

Career

Naumoski began his career in 1989 with the basketball club from the Croatian Split , which at that time united a large part of the best players of the then leading European basketball nation Yugoslavia . However , Naumoski was unable to prevail in the three-time triple winner of the national championship and cup as well as the European Cup between 1989 and 1991 , so that in 1991 he returned to KK Rabotnički in Skopje in his north Macedonian homeland . In 1992 he moved to Türkiye Basketbol Ligi at Efes Pilsen in Istanbul . With this club he won the Turkish championship four times in 1994/95 with a one-year break and was twice runner-up and four times Turkish cup winner. After winning the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1995 with the Benetton basketball club from Treviso, Italy , which he had lost in 1993 with Efes Pilsen, and the Italian national cup, he won the Korać Cup in 1996 after returning to Efes Pilsen in the final against Stefanel Milan , who had already lost the final of this competition to the German representative Alba Berlin a year earlier . With Efes Pilsen he also reached the quarter-finals three times in the now Euroleague- titled European Cup. In 1999 Naumoski Efes left Pilsen. With the North Macedonian national team, Naumoski was able to qualify for a European Championship finals at the 1999 European Basketball Championship , where they were eliminated after three defeats in the preliminary round. He was not active in the 1999/2000 season.

For the 2000/01 season, Naumoski returned to Benetton Treviso. In the 2001/02 season he played for Montepaschi in Siena, Tuscany, from February 2002 and won the last edition of the European Cup Winners' Cup with this team, now called the Saporta Cup . Then he was still active for Olimpia from Milan until January 2004, before he returned to Istanbul for the rest of the 2003/04 season and won another Turkish Cup with Ülkerspor and reached the final series of the Turkish championship against his ex-club Efes Pilsen got lost.

Between 2008 and 2009 he played in Italy and was in the squad of the KK MZT in Skopje in the 2010/11 season .

At the beginning of 2008, Petar Naumoski belonged to a group of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euroleague basketball and / or basketball enthusiasts to determine fifty important figures in basketball in Europe , active in the period 1958 to 2008 and subsequently in Madrid in May 2008 ( Spain ). All the nominated players played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euroleague basketball and were each among the particularly prominent 'stars' of their national league teams.

successes

season	society	European Cup	National championship	National Cup
1989/90	Jugoplastika Split	Europe national champion	Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia
1990/91	POP 84 split	European Champion (2)	Yugoslavia (2)	Yugoslavia (2)
1992/93	Efes Pilsen Istanbul	Europe Cup Winner Vice	Turkey
1993/94	Efes Pilsen Istanbul		Turkey (2)	Turkey
1994/95	Benetton Treviso	Europe cup winner	Italy Vice	Italy
1995/96	Efes Pilsen Istanbul	Europe Korać Cup	Turkey (3)	Turkey (2)
1996/97	Efes Pilsen Istanbul		Turkey (4)	Turkey (3)
1997/98	Efes Pilsen Istanbul		Turkey Vice	Turkey (4)
1998/99	Efes Pilsen Istanbul		Turkey Vice (2)
2001/02	Montepaschi Siena	European Cup Winner / Saporta Cup (2)		Italy Vice
2003/04	Ülkerspor		Turkey Vice (3)	Turkey (5)

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Players - Petar NAUMOSKI (MKD) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments
• Turkish Basketball League History: Petar Naumoski - "Portrait" on the statistics pages of the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi (English)
• Legabasket: Petar Naumoski - player profile on the statistics pages of Serie A (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ VMRO - Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (2002-2006). (No longer available online.) Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia : sobranie.mk, archived from the original on September 30, 2012 ; Retrieved September 18, 2011 (English, parliamentary group composition). 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.  
2. ↑ KK MZT Skopje Aerodrom basketball - team details, stats, news, roster: List of Former Players. eurobasket.com, accessed on September 18, 2011 (English, display of previous players with the end of the season). 
3. ^ NN: The All-Time Player Nominees. ( Memento of January 2, 2015 on the Internet Archive ) Archived from EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​January 2, 2015. Accessed February 2, 2019.