Slobodan Ocokoljić

Slobodan Ocokoljić
Player information
birthday	August 15, 1980
place of birth	Kraljevo, SFR Yugoslavia
size	203 cm
position	Power forward
college	Weber State
Club information
society	Rueil-Malmaison
league	NM1
Clubs as active
1999–2001 Ohio State Buckeyes ( NCAA ) 2002–2004 Weber State Wildcats (NCAA) 2005–2006 TBB Trier 2006–2007 InterCollege ETHA Engomis 2007 Zlatorog Laško 2007–2008 APOEL Nicosia 2008–2009 BSC Raiffeisen Panthers Fürstenfeld 2009–2010 Cognac Basketball 2010 –2012 Sorgues BC Since 2012 Rueil-Malmaison 00000 0

Slobodan Ocokoljić ( Cyrillic Слободан Оцокољић ; born August 15, 1980 in Kraljevo , SR Serbia ) is a Serbian basketball player . Ocokoljić's greatest success was winning the Austrian championship in 2008 with the Panthers from Fürstenfeld .

Career

Ocokoljić studied in the United States from 1999 and initially played for the Buckeyes team at Ohio State University in the NCAA . After he could not assert himself here, he moved to Weber State University in 2001 and, according to the regulations of the NCAA, had to take a year off from official championship games after the change of university. After the break, he won the Big Sky Conference championship with the Weber State Wildcats . In the first round game of the national finals of the NCAA you then lost to the Badgers of the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

After completing his studies in 2004, Ocokoljić only got his first professional contract with the German first division club TBB Trier in the basketball league in February 2005 . In the basketball Bundesliga 2005/06 they narrowly missed entry into the play-offs for the German championship because of the poorer direct comparison . After Ocokoljić had hardly seen any working time before, he did not get a new contract and moved to InterCollege ETHA in Engomi in Cyprus in 2006 . However, he only stayed here until March 2007 and then moved to Zlatorog in Laško, Slovenia . After losing in the semi-finals of the Slovenian championship, he returned to Cyprus and played for APOEL in the capital Nicosia . But even here he didn't stay until the end of the season.

In February 2008 Ocokoljić moved to the " Austrian Basketball Bundesliga ", where he won the championship with the Fürstenfeld Panthers. In the 2008/09 season the title defense failed when the eventual champions WBC Raiffeisen Wels were defeated in the semi-final series. Ocokoljić joined the French third division club from Cognac in the following season 2009/10 after the start of the season . In the following seasons he played for other third division teams in France .

Web links

• Slobodan Ocokoljic Player Profile - player profile on eurobasket.com
• easyCredit BBL - Slobodan Ocokoljić - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website