Svetislav Pešić

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Basketball player
Svetislav Pešić
Svetislav Pešić 2013
Player information
Nickname Sveti, Kari
birthday August 28, 1949
place of birth Novi Sad , SFR Yugoslavia
Clubs as active
1964-1967 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia KK Pirot
1967-1971 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia KK Partizan Belgrade
1971-1979 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia KK Bosna Sarajevo
Clubs as coaches
1982-1987 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia KK Bosna Sarajevo
1993-2000 GermanyGermany ALBA Berlin
2001-2002 GermanyGermany RheinEnergie Cologne
2002-2004 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
2004-2006 ItalyItaly Lottomatica Rome
2006-2007 SpainSpain Akasvayu Girona
2007-2008 RussiaRussia MBK Dynamo Moscow
2008-2009 SerbiaSerbia Red Star Belgrade
2010-2011 SpainSpain Power Electronics Valencia
2011–2012 SerbiaSerbia Red Star Belgrade
2012-2016 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich
2018-2020 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
National team as coach
1987-1990 GermanyGermany Germany (FRG)
1990-1993 GermanyGermany Germany
2000-2002 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia BR Yugoslavia
2012 GermanyGermany Germany
1 As of 08/01/2013

Svetislav Pešić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Светислав Пешић ; born August 28, 1949 in Novi Sad , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian basketball coach and former player.

Career

As a player, Pešić was able to achieve his greatest successes at the KK Bosna Sarajevo , with whom he was the 1978 Yugoslav champion and cup winner and the 1979 European cup winner .

After his career as a player, Pešić was initially sports director at KK Bosna in the 1981/82 season. From 1982 to 1987 he coached the club where he had also worked as a player. In 1983 he was the coach of Yugoslav champions and in 1984 he won the cup. At the same time he coached Yugoslav national youth teams in those years. After previous EM victories, the U-19 basketball world championship was won under his direction in 1987 . This triumph was the first time that an American selection was defeated on an equal footing, since the defeats of US senior selection teams at basketball world championships and the Olympic Games came about without the participation of NBA professionals.

After these successes, the German Basketball Federation signed him as national coach. In this role, Pešić led the German national team surprisingly to win the European basketball championship in 1993 , the first international title of a German men's national team. He did not share the assessment that the German European Championship triumph was completely unexpected. “Yes, we made history. But it wasn't such a big sensation either. The team has developed over the years, ”he said looking back. In preparation for the European Championship in 1993, he thought about an immediate resignation as national coach, as it had been decided at the presidium meeting of the German Basketball Association that Christian Welp would have to play in the tournament. Since the center player, who was employed in the USA at the time, only wanted to do part of the preparation for the European Championship with the team, Pešić had spoken out in favor of doing without Welp. Pešić asked the other team members, who unanimously agreed that Welp should be there despite the late arrival. Welp was a decisive victory factor later in the European Championship final.

One of his most important secrets of success in this and later triumphs was that Pešić knew how to put pressure on his players and the environment, which he used to drive his teams to performance. Stephan Baeck , who became European champion under Pešić in 1993, said of the coach: “When Svetislav says 'jump!', Don't ask 'why?', But rather 'how high?'” Pešić was nicknamed “The old man ". He trained his teams with a “hard hand”. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the Berliner Morgenpost described Pešić as a “basketball coach who polarizes”. Despite his often loud and tough dealings with his players in team meetings, in training and in games, he always tried to show that he respected every personality. Pešić emphasized in December 2019 that he had a good relationship with his former players and was friends with his own statement "for all time". In 2019, he said about the development of his dealings with players and his commitment to the sport: "If you like basketball live, 24 hours, then it is very difficult to calm down, so to speak. “With his teams, Pešić usually relies on a press defense and a quick switch from defense to attack. "That was always my basketball", his philosophy has hardly changed over the years, he said in December 2019.

From 1993 onwards Pešić was head coach at Alba Berlin . Here he won the Korać Cup in the second year of his engagement and thus the first international title of a German club team. In addition, Alba was German champion four times and cup winners twice under his direction in the following years . Looking back, Pešić emphasized in 2000 that Alba Berlin was “not just my employer, but my passion, my second family”.

In 2000 Pešić left Berlin and coached the national team of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , from 2001 at the same time with RheinEnergie Cologne . In 2001 he was again European champion with the national team and world champion in 2002 .

This was followed by further engagements with top European clubs such as FC Barcelona (2002-2004), with whom he won the triple in 2003, consisting of the championship, national cup and Euroleague. This was followed by positions at Lottomatica Rome (2004-2006), Akasvayu Girona (2006/07), with whom he won the FIBA EuroCup , Dynamo Moscow (2007/08) and Red Star Belgrade (2008/09). From November 2010 Pešić was the coach of ULEB Eurocup winner Valencia Basket Club , with whom he was eliminated in five games against national rivals Real Madrid in the quarterfinals of the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 . For the 2011/12 season he returned to Belgrade to join the new fusion club from KK Red Star and KK FMP Železnik , which was to form a counterpoint to the dominant Serbian series champion KK Partizan Belgrade .

From the summer of 2012 Pešić took over again - initially parallel to his work in Belgrade - the German men's senior team as national coach. Following the successful qualification for the European Championship , he did not extend his contract with the German Basketball Federation, but on November 27, 2012 succeeded Yannis Christopoulos as head coach of FC Bayern Munich , where he received a contract until the end of the season. In March 2013, his contract was prematurely extended for another two years. In the 2013/14 season he was German champion with Bayern and reached the round of the best 16 teams in the Euroleague. In spring 2015 Pesic extended his contract again for two years. On July 24, 2016, Pešić resigned from office for health reasons. "Helping to establish a new sport in a football city" meant extra motivation for him, he said, looking back on his time in Munich. As a Bayern coach, he was sometimes in a dispute with his former employer Alba Berlin, but also emphasized: "I have such good memories of Berlin, of Alba, I see Alba like my baby." Pešić had particularly sharply criticized the Berlin manager Marco Baldi .

In February 2018 he returned to FC Barcelona as head coach. Before the call came from Barcelona, ​​Pešić said he was thinking about turning to other things than basketball and ending his coaching career. In early July 2020, Pešić and FC Barcelona announced their separation after losing with the team in the final of the ACB league's final tournament the day before.

Others

Pešić's son Marko Pešić was also active as a basketball player and played in the German national team . Pešić jun. also played for Alba Berlin and Lottomatica Rome, which Pešić sen. were trained.

Success as a player

  • European Champion Clubs' Cup : 1979 with KK Bosna Sarajevo
  • Yugoslav Champion: 1978 with KK Bosna Sarajevo
  • Yugoslav Cup Winner: 1978 with KK Bosna Sarajevo

Success as a trainer

As a national team coach

As a club coach

Awards

Web links

Commons : Svetislav Pešić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.seiten.faz-archiv.de/fas/20010916/sfas200109161074413.html
  2. ↑ http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/1389393 ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Abendzeitung Germany: Basketball EM 1993: 20 years later ... - Abendzeitung Munich. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Magenta Sport: Svetislav Pesic. Otherwise nothing ... Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  5. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Ex-basketball star Christian Welp is dead | DW | 03/02/2015. Accessed December 31, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ Theo Breiding: The print maker . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 130, 131 .
  7. ↑ Christian Teevs: Basketball Heroes from 1993: When Germany was once European champion . In: Spiegel Online . September 3, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 10, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Uli Schember: Svetislav Pesic is 70 and is still successful. In: Berliner Morgenpost. August 28, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Basketball: Svetislav Pesic in conversation: "Alba remains my home, my third child". In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Svetislav Pesic is the new coach at FC Bayern ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  11. ↑ Contract extension with Svetislav Pesic ( memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  12. ↑ fcb-basketball.de: Master trainer Svetislav Pesic resigns for health reasons .
  13. ↑ Florian Haupt: Svetislav Pesic: "I no longer feel like part of Alba Berlin". In: Berliner Morgenpost. March 21, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Bayern coach Pesic: Zoff with ALBA "from my side" ended. June 27, 2014, accessed December 10, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ The Pesics attack the Alba boss sharply. In: tz.de. June 15, 2014, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  16. ↑ ACB.COM - Svetislav Pesic dirigirá a FC Barcelona Lassa hasta final de temporada. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
  17. ↑ https://www.euroleague.net/news/i/ap9ty7e5c9v34xyh
  18. ↑ KIROLBET Baskonia le arrebata la Liga al Barça (67-69). In: acb.com. Retrieved July 1, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Pešić, Svetislav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пешић, Светислав (srS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian basketball coach and former player
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Novi Sad , SFR Yugoslavia