Ivica Radosavljević ( sr-cyr, Ивица Радосављевић; born December 13, 1983) is a

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

n / Swiss retired professional

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player. Radosavljević spent most of his career in Switzerland. At , he played as a

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. Radosavljević grew up in Buljane

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in the

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Paraćin Paraćin ( sr-Cyrl, Параћин, ) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. It is located in the valley of the Velika Morava river, north of Kruševac and southeast of Kragujevac. In 2011 the town had a p ...

. He began playing basketball in his home town

, for the team KK Paraćin. At 16 he moved up to Switzerland and played for STB Bern-Giants,

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, Boncourt, Etoile Sportive Vernier Basket, BC Chêne,

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and La Chaux de Fonds Basket. Since then, he has coached a team i
Val-de-Ruz Basket
where he won the Swiss 1LN M title in 2019. Since 2020 he is assistant coach of

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of the Swiss Basketball League (SBL). For three seasons as assistant, he helped the team to win three Swiss Championships, two SBL Cups, one League Cup and three Super Cups. However, in 2023 after departure of head coach Petar Aleksić he stops to be assistant coach, and he continues to work as a youth coach in Freibourg Olympic Academy.

References

Ivica Radosavljević
profile at

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Ivica Radosavljević
profile at EuroBasket 1983 births Living people Serbian men's basketball players Swiss men's basketball players Serbian expatriate basketball people in Switzerland Union Neuchâtel Basket players Power forwards Serbian basketball coaches People from Paraćin Sportspeople from Pomoravlje District {{Switzerland-basketball-bio-stub