Svetislav Pešić

BELGRADE - Svetislav Pesic has signed a contract with the Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS) to stay on as head coach of the men's national basketball team until September 30, 2025 with an option to extend the deal, KSS President Nebojsa Covic announced on Sunday.

Pesic will lead our national team already in the November qualifications for the 2023 World Cup, when Serbia will meet Latvia on November 25, while three days later it will visit Belgium.

Nyon – Slovenian basketball coach and former player Jure Zdovc will be inducted in the FIBA Hall of Fame as part of the 2020 class. He is only the second Slovenian to make it to museum honouring people who have greatly contributed to international competitive basketball after Ivo Daneu.

BELGRADE - Famous basketball coach Aleksandar Petrovic died on Monday at the age of 56 after a long disease.

Petrovic was born in Pozega on October 14, 1959 and during his career, he coached Belgrade-based Radnicki, Hemofarm, FMP, Lokomotiv - Rostov, UNICS, Zalgiris and Azovmash.