Vladimir Lučić

Vladimir Lučić
Lučić in the Valencia shirt in 2014
Player information
birthday	June 17, 1989
place of birth	Belgrade , SFR Yugoslavia
size	204 cm
position	Small forward
Club information
society	FC Bayern Munich
league	Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2006–2008 KK Superfund Belgrade 2008–2013 KK Partizan Belgrade 2013–2016 Valencia BC Since 2016 FC Bayern Munich 0
National team
Since 02012	Serbia

Vladimir Lučić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Владимир Лучић ; born June 17, 1989 in Belgrade ) is a Serbian basketball player . Lučić played in his homeland until 2013, where he won five championships and four national cup titles with the former series champion KK Partizan Belgrade , as well as the title in the Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) four times . In the meantime he played from 2013 to 2016 in the Spanish ACB league for Valencia BC , with which he won the Eurocup 2013/14 . Since the 2016/17 season he has been playing in the basketball Bundesliga for the basketball department of FC Bayern Munich .

Career

Lučić played in his youth for KK Radnički Belgrade before he came to KK Superfund in the capital via KK Atlas, for which he played his first men's games. After two years, Lučić moved to the dominant series champion KK Partizan in 2008. Although he initially received little time in the men's team, he was able to recommend himself for the squad of the junior national team. At the U20 European Championship finals in 2009, among other things, a narrow victory with two points difference against the German selection succeeded in the preliminary round, but after defeats against Croatia and Montenegro, among others, the Serbian youngsters took a poor eleventh place for their claims. With the KK Partizan Lučić won three times in a row the triple of championship, cup competition and winning the supranational ABA league until 2011 . Lučić had his first short stint in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague in the 2009/10 season , when Partizan moved into the Final Four of this competition for the first time after two quarter-finals previously in the ULEB era . Partizan finished in fourth place after two narrow defeats, with Lučić remaining after the preliminary round without further use. In the following season Lučić was now regularly playing time in the Euroleague, but a younger team under the new head coach Vlada Jovanović could not repeat the success of previous years and was eliminated after only one intermediate round victory in the second group stage of the 16 best teams. At the Summer Universiade 2011 , Lučić won the gold medal with the Serbian student selection. In the following season Partizan got problems in the front court after the departure of Jan Veselý and the return of Nikola Peković after the end of the lockout in the NBA . So it was not enough to qualify for the intermediate round of the Euroleague or to defend the title in the ABA League, won by the visiting team Maccabi Tel Aviv . At the national level, however, the team was initially able to leave the competition behind and defend the national double . Lučić's increased game shares were rewarded with an appointment to the Serbian national team , with which he qualified for the 2013 European Championship after missing the Olympics .

For the following season Duško Vujošević returned as a coach to a team that was also rejuvenated for financial reasons and in which no Serbian player and apart from Torey Thomas no foreign player was older than 24 years. Lučić was named team captain as one of the longest serving players . Partizan only lost the decisive final group game for a place in the intermediate round of the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 after extra time against the German champions Brose Baskets . In the ABA League 2012/13 without title holder Maccabi, they were able to get back the title as fourth in the main round at the Final Four tournament and also won the final series of the championship against local rivals KK Red Star Belgrade , against whom they had previously lost the cup final. Like many of his colleagues before, Lučić has now moved abroad and joined the Valencia club in the Spanish ACB league . In the group games of the Eurocup 2013/14 they could not always convince and reached the knockout rounds with only nine wins in 16 games , in which they remained undefeated in the semi-finals and final under coach Velimir Perasović after losing the quarter-final in the second leg at Alba Berlin won the title in this competition for the club for the third time. In the national championship they had already convinced in the main round and moved into the play-offs in second place with only four defeats, in which they were in a memorable semi-final series, in which there were only away wins, by a buzzer beater from Marcelinho Huertas the later Title winners FC Barcelona lost.

In the following season 2014/15, the team could not match the successes of the previous season without the former protagonists Justin Doellman and Oliver Lafayette and had to return to the Eurocup 2014/15 after only three preliminary round victories in the higher-ranking ULEB Euroleague 2014/15 . After a home defeat against the Romanian club CSU Asesoft Ploieşti , coach Perasović finally had to leave, but the team again narrowly qualified for the second round, in which they dominated the former German champions FC Bayern Munich , before defending the title in the quarter-finals at eventual title winners BK Khimki failed. In the Spanish championship you failed as fifth in the main round in the semi-final series at the later Triple Crown triumphant Real Madrid . In the following 2015/16 season, the team remained undefeated in the first 28 competitive games until mid-January. In his debut as club coach of Limoges CSP , of all people, Lučić's long-time Partizan club coach Vujosević ended this extraordinary series in Valencia's home defeat in the 2015/16 Eurocup .

On July 26, 2016, Lučić signed a two-year contract with Bayern Munich .

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Lučić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ACB.COM: Vladimir Lucic - player profile on the websites of the ACB League ( Spanish )
• LUCIC, VLADIMIR - Player profile on the website of the Eurocup ( English )
• Vladimir Lučić - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• ABA - Player: Vladimir Lučić - Profile on the statistics pages of the ABA League (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Hein: Bamberg prevails in OT thriller to reach Top 16. Euroleague , December 13, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2016 (English). 
2. ↑ Benjamin Strüh: Brose Baskets make TOP16 entry. Nürnberger Nachrichten : nordbayern.de, December 14, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Jesús Sánchez: Una genialidad de Marcelinho mete al Barça en la final. Marca , June 15, 2014, accessed January 17, 2016 (Spanish). 
4. ↑ Histórico Valencia: triunfo milenario y 28-0 'Invictus'. Marca , January 17, 2016, accessed January 17, 2016 (Spanish). 
5. ↑ Limoges hammers Valencia, sends it to first loss of season. Eurocup , January 19, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Bayern basketball players sign Vladimir Lucic until 2018. FC Bayern Munich , July 26, 2016, accessed on July 26, 2016 .