Uroš Tripković

Uroš Tripković
Uroš Tripković (2011)
Player information
birthday	September 11, 1986
place of birth	Čačak, SFR Yugoslavia
size	197 cm
position	Point forward
Club information
society	Vanoli Cremona
league	Lega Basket Serie A
Jersey number	11
Clubs as active
2002–2009 KK Partizan Belgrade 2009–2010 Joventut de Badalona 2010–2012 Unicaja Málaga 2012 Blancos de Rueda Valladolid 2012–2013 Fenerbahçe Ülker Since 2013 Vanoli Cremona 00000 0
National team
Since 02006	Serbia

Uroš Tripković medal table
Basketball (men)
Serbia
European Championship
silver	2009 Poland

Uroš Tripković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Урош Трипковић ; born September 11, 1986 in Čačak , SR Serbia ) is a Serbian basketball player . As a youth, Tripković moved to the dominant Serbian club KK Partizan, with whom he won seven Serbian championship titles and three times the ABA league until 2009 . With the Serbian national team he was a World Cup participant in 2006 and became vice European champion in 2009 . From 2009 to 2012 he played in the Spanish ACB league before moving to the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi for Fenerbahçe Ülker, with whom he won the Turkish Cup competition in 2013. Since the 2013/14 season he has been playing for the Italian first division club Vanoli Cremona.

Career

Tripković learned to play basketball in his hometown at KK Borac Čačak , who has also produced world champions and multiple European Cup winners such as Dragan Kićanović and Željko Obradović . In 2002, at the age of 16, he moved to KK Partizan in the capital, Belgrade , where the two of the aforementioned were already successful as players, coaches and / or sports director. In his first season with the dominant Serbian club, he was used in individual championship games and was able to win the following seven championships in Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia with the club until 2009 . In addition, he won the ABA league three times in a row with Partizan from 2007 to 2009. With the Serbian-Montenegrin junior national team, he won together with Luka Bogdanović , Vladimir Micov , Branislav Ratkovica , Novica Veličković and Tadija Dragićević, also from Čačak, at the U20 in 2005. European Championship a bronze medal and made his debut a year later in the men's national team at the 2006 World Cup finals . Defending champions Serbia and Montenegro disappointed in this final round and were eliminated in the round of 16 against eventual world champions Spain after a rather mediocre preliminary round in which they lost three out of five games . Three years later things went better when a significantly younger national team made it through to the finals of the 2009 European Championship finals, where they were also defeated by the world champions from Spain, against whom they had won in the opening match in the preliminary round.

After the European Championship finals in 2009 Tripković left his home country and played for DKV Joventut from Badalona in Catalonia in the 2009/10 season . After the departure of the top talent Ricky Rubio and the upheaval that occurred, the club's team weakened in the ACB league and missed the play-offs for the championship. In the following two years Tripković played for Unicaja from Málaga in Andalusia . The team reached eighth place in the play-offs of the 2010/11 season, in which they were defeated in the first round by FC Barcelona , who then won the championship unbeaten in the play-offs. In the following season 2011/12, in which Tripković did not play a game after injury problems and left the club in January 2012, Unicaja even missed the ninth place in the championship finals. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season Tripković got a new contract with league rivals Blancos de Rueda from Valladolid , who had only held the class through the waiver of licenses by other clubs. After two months, Tripković moved to Türkiye Basketbol Ligi in December 2012 for Fenerbahçe Ülker from Istanbul , with whom he won the Turkish Cup competition, but was eliminated early in the quarter-final play-offs for the championship against Pınar Karşıyaka . For the following season Željko Obradović of all things took over as coach of the team, but Tripković did not get a new contract and then joined the Italian first division club Vanoli from Cremona in the Lega Basket Serie A in early November 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Uroš Tripković  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Legabasket: Uros Tripkovic - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
• Tripković UROS - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Uros TRIPKOVIC (SRB) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• ACB.COM: Uros Tripkovic - player profile on the websites of the ACB League ( Spanish )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Unicaja released Tripkovic. ULEB , January 5, 2012, accessed November 25, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Uros Tripkovic - Turkish Basketball League Player: 2012-2013. TBLStat.net, accessed on November 25, 2013 (English, individual seasonal statistics).