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Željko Obradović

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Serbian basketball player and coach

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
6
Total plays
14

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Key facts

Born
( 1960-03-09 ) 9 March 1960 (age 66) , Čačak , PR Serbia , Yugoslavia
Nationality
Serbian
Listed height
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight
175 lb (79 kg)
Nba draft
1982 : undrafted
Playing career
1978–1991
Position
Point guard
Coaching career
1991–present
1978 1984
Borac Čačak
1984 1991
Partizan
1991 1993
Partizan
1992 1995
FR Yugoslavia (assistant)
1993 1994
Joventut Badalona
1994 1997
Real Madrid
1996 2000
FR Yugoslavia
1997 1999
Benetton Treviso
1999 2012
Panathinaikos
2004 2005
Serbia and Montenegro

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Sports profile

Sport
Basketball
Team
_Free Agent Basketball
Position
Manager
Nationality
Serbia

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Encyclopedic overview

Želimir "Željko" Obradović (Serbian Cyrillic: Желимир "Жељко" Обрадовић, pronounced [ʒɛ̌limiːr ʒêːʎko obrǎːdoʋitɕ]; born 9 March 1960) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former professional player who was most recently the head coach for Partizan of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague.

Widely regarded as the greatest coach in European basketball history and outside the NBA, Obradović has won a total of 66 club titles and honours over the course of his 30-year-long coaching career, including a record nine EuroLeague titles with five different clubs, along with 18 EuroLeague Final Four appearances. In addition to his success at club level, he has also won major trophies as head coach of the Yugoslavia national team (present-day Serbia), most notably winning the gold medals at the 1997 EuroBasket and the 1998 FIBA World Championship.

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