Stefan Marković

Stefan Marković
Player information
birthday	April 25, 1988
place of birth	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
size	199 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
Club information
society	Virtus Segafredo Bologna
league	Lega Basket Serie A
Clubs as active
2005–2006 KK Atlas Belgrade 2006–2010 KK Hemofarm Vršac 2010–2011 Benetton Treviso 2011–2013 Valencia Basket Club 2013–2014 Banvit BK Bandırma 2014–2016 Unicaja Málaga 2016–2017 BK Zenit Sankt Petersburg 2017–2019 BK Chimki Since 2019 Virtus Bologna 0
National team
Since 02007	Serbia

Stefan Marković medal table
Basketball (men)
Serbia
Basketball world championship
silver	2014 Spain
European basketball championship
silver	2009 Poland
U-19 basketball world championship
gold	2007 Novi Sad

Stefan Marković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Стефан Марковић ; born April 25, 1988 in Belgrade , SR Serbia ) is a Serbian basketball player . The 2007 junior world champion has been playing abroad since 2010, where he was active in Italy , Spain and Turkey , among others . With the Serbian men's selection, Marković became vice European champion in 2009 and vice world champion in 2014. Marković has been playing in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A for the Virtus Bologna club since the 2019/20 season .

Career

After the U-18 European Championship finals in 2006, when a Serbian-Montenegrin selection had competed for the last time and had achieved fifth place as the defending champion, Marković moved from his hometown from KK Atlas to the Serbian-Montenegrin cup finalist KK Hemofarm in Vršac . Without the Montenegrin Vladimir Dašić , who was still the top scorer of the junior selection in the U-18 finals last year , a Serbian junior selection with team captain Marković won the title in front of their home crowd in the final 74:69 at the U-19 World Cup in Novi Sad in 2007 the previously undefeated selection of the United States . The Serbian selection had suffered their only tournament defeat in the preliminary round with 78:82 against the Americans, who competed with various later NBA professionals such as Michael Beasley , Patrick Beverley , Stephen Curry , Jonny Flynn , Donté Greene and DeAndre Jordan . With his club KK Hemofarm, which now also played Junior World Championship MVP Milan Mačvan , Marković also reached the play-off final series of the Košarkaška liga Srbije after losing again in the 2008 cup final , with the third defeat in the final that season against the new one Serial champion KK Partizan Belgrade was lost. In addition to the national double , Partizan also won the title in the supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) as defending champion in 2007/08 in the final against KK Hemofarm, who last won this competition in 2005. In the following it was enough for Hemofarm only to another national runner-up in 2010 behind Partizan. In international club competitions Hemofarm reached the final tournament "Final Eight" in Turin in the Eurocup 2008/09 together with the winner of the intermediate round group Pamesa Valencia BC, after having failed in the second round a year earlier. In the semifinals of 2009, however, the team was defeated by the eventual title winner Lietuvos rytas Vilnius . In the following Eurocup 2009/10 , the later title winner Valencia was already group winners again in the preliminary group when Hemofarm could only win one of six preliminary round games.

In the Serbian men's selection , Marković had already had individual short appearances at the 2007 European Championship finals after winning the Junior World Cup in 2007 , when the Serbs were eliminated prematurely in their first finals without Montenegrins after three preliminary round defeats. Two years later, Marković moved with a young Serbian selection, who with the exception of Nenad Krstić and Bojan Popović were 24 years and younger, up to the final of the European Championship finals in 2009 , in which one of the Olympic champions Spain , who was still in the opening game of the preliminary round could be defeated, was clearly inferior with over 20 points difference. At the 2010 World Cup in Turkey , Serbia won all of its preliminary round matches except for one defeat after extra time against Germany , which, however, did not qualify for the round of 16. After narrow victories over Croatia and defending champion Spain, the team lost the semi-finals in the final seconds against hosts Turkey and missed a medal win after losing in the "small final" for third place against Lithuania . Then moved Marković, who in the 2010 NBA draft had been ignored, the Italian veteran and former European champions Benetton in Treviso in the Lega Basket Serie A . In the 2010/11 Eurocup , the team won eleven of twelve group games in the preliminary and intermediate rounds, including both games against the previous finalist Alba Berlin . After a rare draw, Benetton was able to prevail in the quarter-final second leg against last year's EuroChallenge winner BG Göttingen , but as host of the Final Four tournament lost both the semifinals against Cajasol Sevilla , against whom they had also suffered the only intermediate round defeat , as well as the game for third place against KK Cedevita . In the national play-offs for the championship, the main round fifth and five-time title holder Treviso lost the semi-final series smoothly in three games against serial champion Montepaschi Siena .

At the 2011 European Championship finals , Serbia won the first four preliminary round games, including this time against Germany, but lost the following three games before they secured participation in the quarter-finals with a narrow success over runner-up Turkey in the last intermediate round match. Then, after losing to Russia in the quarter-final, it set two more defeats in the placement round, so that Serbia missed a qualification for the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament in eighth place. After the finals, Marković left the financially troubled Italian first division club and moved to the Spanish ACB league for the club from Valencia, with whom he moved into the final in the 2011/12 Eurocup . The club's third entry into the final was a new record in this competition, which had existed since 2002, but for the first time the team of the Spanish club lost a final against BK Chimki , who won the title in this competition for the first time in its second final. In the Eurocup 2012/13 , Valencia won its preliminary group in front of the Turkish club Banvit BK and moved into the quarterfinals after the intermediate round together with Bilbao Basket . After they were able to prevail against UNICS Kazan , the team missed another final in the semi-finals against the eventual title winner Lokomotive Kuban Krasnodar . The 2013 final in the Copa del Rey de Baloncesto had previously been lost to champions FC Barcelona , against whom they had also lost the semi-final series of the 2012 championship. In the play-offs for the 2013 championship, however, they already lost the opening series against CAI Saragossa . At the European Championship finals in 2013 , Serbia clearly lost the quarter-finals against the renewed Olympic champion Spain and was able to win the decisive game for seventh place against Italy in the placement round . This saved qualification for the 2014 World Cup in Spain. Before that, however, Marković left Spain and moved to the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi for Banvit BK to Bandırma on the Sea of ​​Marmara . In the Eurocup 2013/14 the team was eliminated again in the intermediate round , but in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi 2013/14 it was enough for the first main round place after only two defeats of the season. The play-off semi-final series for the Turkish championship was still lost to defending champion Galatasaray Istanbul .

At the 2014 World Cup finals , the Serbian selection was initially only able to win two preliminary rounds against Egypt and Iran , before beating the previously unbeaten Greeks in the round of 16 and, after further victories over Brazil and European champions France, made it to the final, in which one was won by the defending champion United States was clearly defeated with 129: 92. In the relatively young American selection, Stephen Curry was the second oldest player and thus took late revenge for the final defeat he had suffered at the 2007 Junior World Championships in a Serbian selection, which, in addition to Marković, was only another junior world champion from then with Miroslav Raduljica . Marković stayed after the final tournament in Spain and moved to the Unicaja club from Málaga in Andalusia from the northeast to the western edge of the Mediterranean . At that time, the club was still permanently entitled to participate in the Euroleague 2014/15 , so that after eight consecutive appearances in the Eurocup with different teams, Marković was now taking part in the highest-ranking European club competition for the first time. In the second round of the 16 best European teams, however, it was only enough to four wins in 14 games before the Andalusian club, third in the main round of the ACB League, lost just under five games in the semi-final series for the Spanish championship defending champions FC Barcelona. Participation in the semi-finals secured the club, which had been deprived of permanent eligibility to participate in the Euroleague, but continued participation in the Euroleague 2015/16 , which ended for Malaga with the same balance in the second round despite a stronger preliminary round. Marković had previously missed another medal win with Serbia at the 2015 European Championship finals when the team remained undefeated until the semifinals, but then lost to Lithuania in the semifinals and host and defending champion France in the "small final" for the bronze medal. This placement was enough for direct qualification for the Olympic basketball tournament in 2016 , so that Marković took part in the Olympic Games for the first time after being nominated by national coach Aleksandar Đorđević . At the Olympic basketball tournament in Rio de Janeiro, the Serbian team won the silver medal.

Web links

Commons : Stefan Marković  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ACB.COM: Stefan Markovic - player profile on the websites of the League ACB ( Spanish )
• MARKOVIC, STEFAN - Player profile on the website of the Euro League ( English )
• Stefan Marković - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Darko Nikolić: Stars hail Serbian achievements. (No longer available online.) FIBA , July 24, 2007, archived from the original on April 10, 2016 ; accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, media info). 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. ↑ 2007 FIBA ​​U19 World Championship for Men: Game: SERBIA vs USA (Group B). FIBA , July 14, 2007, accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, game statistics in the archive). 
3. ↑ David Hein: Haven't We Met Before? FIBA Europa , September 20, 2009, accessed April 9, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Jeff Taylor: WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! FIBA Europa , September 20, 2009, accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, match report). 
5. ↑ Lithuania speed past Serbia to collect bronze. (No longer available online.) FIBA , September 12, 2010, archived from the original on April 10, 2016 ; accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, media info). 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.  
6. ↑ Lega Basket: Stefan Markovic. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed April 9, 2016 (Italian, player profile). 
7. ↑ Final: BC Khimki is the new Eurocup champion! Eurocup , April 15, 2012, accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, media info). 
8. ↑ Markovic, Stefan - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, player profile with individual statistics). 
9. ↑ Reuters : No contest: Irving and Harden lead USA to Fiba World Cup gold over Serbia. The National (Abu Dhabi) , September 15, 2014, accessed April 9, 2016 .