Zoran Slavnić

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Zoran Slavnić (born October 26, 1949 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav basketball player who was world champion in 1978, Olympic champion in 1980 and three times European champion.

Athletic career

The 1.81 m tall point guard Zoran Slavnić played for KK Roter Stern Belgrade until 1977 , with this club he was Yugoslav champion in 1969 and 1972. He later played for Joventut de Badalona (Spanish champion 1978), KK Šibenik , KK Partizan Belgrade and Juventus Caserta . In the Yugoslav League, he played 289 games in which he scored 4228 points.

Slavnić was successful internationally as a teenager. In 1968 he was runner-up at the European Junior Championships. With the Yugoslav national team , he won the title at the European Championship in 1973 by beating the Spaniards in the final . In 7 games Slavnić scored 57 points. In 1974 there was a group system at the World Cup in San Juan , six teams from the preliminary round as well as host Puerto Rico and defending champion Yugoslavia were set for the final round. In the end, the Soviet Union , the Yugoslavs, and the United States were each defeated. Since the victory of the Soviet team over the team from the USA was the highest victory of the games among themselves, the Soviet Union won the title before the Yugoslavs and the United States. In six games Slavnić scored 57 points. The 1975 European basketball championship took place in Yugoslavia. There was a final round with six teams, in which the Yugoslavs achieved five victories and thus became European champions before the Soviet Union. Slavnić played in eight games and scored 50 points.

In 1976 at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the Yugoslavs were second in the preliminary round behind the team from the United States. After the semi-final victory of the Yugoslavs over the team from the Soviet Union, the Yugoslavs met again in the final against the United States and lost 74:95. Zoran Slavnić was used in six games and scored 57 points. At the European Championships in Belgium in 1977 there was another knockout round, in the final the Yugoslavs won against the Soviet team. With 80 points in seven games, Zoran Slavnić achieved the best point average in an international championship of his entire career.

At the World Basketball Championship in Manila in 1978 there was initially a final round in which the Yugoslavs remained undefeated. The first two teams of the final round met in the final, Yugoslavia won against the USSR team with 82:81 after extra time. Slavnić contributed 74 points in nine games, four of them in the final. After three European championship titles in a row, Yugoslavia missed the final at the 1979 European championship in Italy. Since they had lost in the preliminary round against Israel 76:77, Israel moved into the final against the Soviet team, Yugoslavia won the game for third place 99:92 against Czechoslovakia . Slavnić scored 31 points in six games. A year later there was another final round at the 1980 Olympic Games . In the final, the two best teams from the final round met each other. The Yugoslavs defeated the Italians with 86:77 points. Slavnić was used in eight games and scored 38 points over the course of the tournament. In the final he contributed four points. After a two-year break, Slavnić returned to the Yugoslav team for the 1983 European Championship . With 42 points in five games, Slavnić could not prevent the Yugoslavs from only finishing seventh.

From 1983 Slavnić worked as a coach: He started with Sibenka (1983/84), followed by the positions Partizan Belgrade (1984/85), Jugoplastika Split (1985-1987), Caja de Ronda in Spain's first division (1987/88) , Red Star Belgrade (1988–1991), Dafni Athens in Greece (1991/92), Red Star Belgrade again (1994/95), 1995/96 he was in charge of the Spanish first division club Joventut de Badalona and 1996/97 Iraklis Thessaloniki in Greece. For the 2001/02 season he was coach of the German Bundesliga club TSK Bamberg . Slavnić, who was particularly keen on good defensive performance, made one of the youngest players a regular with the future national player Steffen Hamann . However, the cooperation between Slavnić and Bamberg ended at the beginning of December 2001 after the coach, according to the club, demanded that the seasonal salary be paid in advance for tax reasons and that the club had set a deadline to meet these demands. When the club did not comply with this, Slavnić left Bamberg. The basketball journalist Dino Reisner called his tenure in Bamberg in the daily newspaper Die Welt "one of the greatest misunderstandings in the history of German basketball". Bamberg's managing director Wolfgang Heyder described the trainer as "egocentric".

In 2007 he jumped at the European Championships as a Serbian national coach.

In 2013 Zoran Slavnić was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Points statistics of the Yugoslav League on worldhoopstats.com
  2. ↑ Medal winner at the European basketball championships at sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ Player statistics of the European Championship 1973 at archive.fiba.com
  4. ↑ Medal winner at basketball world championships at sport-komplett.de
  5. ↑ Player statistics from the 1974 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
  6. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1975 at archive.fiba.com
  7. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . Pp. 579 to 581
  8. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1977 at archive.fiba.com
  9. ↑ Player statistics from the 1978 World Cup at archive.fiba.com
  10. ↑ Player statistics of the European Championship 1979 at archive.fiba.com
  11. ↑ Player statistics of the EM 1983 at archive.fiba.com
  12. ↑ a b MEMBRES DU HALL OF FAME: Zoran Slavnic (Serbia). In: FIBA. Retrieved July 2, 2020 (French).
  13. ↑ CAJA RONDA; PLANTILLA, TEMPORADA 1987-1988. In: acb.com. Retrieved July 2, 2020 (Spanish).
  14. ↑ CLUB JOVENTUT BADALONA; PLANTILLA, TEMPORADA 1995-1996. In: acb.com. Retrieved July 2, 2020 (Spanish).
  15. ↑ a b Linus Müller: Because coach Zoran Slavnić also drove through the city center with his car . In: 111 reasons to love Brose Bamberg . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86265-721-6 , pp. 191, 192 .
  16. ^ A b Dino Reisner: Bamberg basketball club is chasing coach Slavnic with an arrest warrant . In: THE WORLD . December 5, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed July 2, 2020]).
  17. ↑ Ups and Downs in Bamberg. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Slavnić, Zoran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade , Yugoslavia