Mirko Novosel (born 30 June 1938) is a Croatian former professional
basketball
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coach and player.
Novosel coached some of the greatest players in former Yugoslavia and Croatia, such as Croatian
Hall of Fame
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players
Krešimir Ćosić
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and
Dražen Petrović
Dražen Petrović (; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s, before joining the Nati ...
. He was enshrined into the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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, as a
coach
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, on 7 September 2007. He was inducted into the
FIBA Hall of Fame, as a coach, in 2010.
Playing career
Novosel played club basketball, from 1952 to 1966, with
Lokomotiva Zagreb
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.
Coaching career
Novosel coached
Cibona
Košarkaški klub Cibona, commonly referred to as Cibona Zagreb or simply Cibona, is a men's professional basketball club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club is a founding member and shareholder of the Adriatic Basketball Association, and compete ...
to two
Yugoslav League
The Yugoslav First Federal Football League (Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...
titles, seven
Yugoslav Cups, and the two
European Champions Cup titles in 1985 and 1986, when he was named the European Coach of the Year.
National team coaching career
As the head coach, Novosel led the senior men's
Yugoslav national team to the silver medal at the
1974 FIBA World Championship
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Venues
Comp ...
, the silver medal at the
1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, and the bronze medal at the
1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
Novosel was also the head coach of the senior men's
Croatia national team, leading them to the bronze medal at the
1993 European Championship.
Career achievements
Club career
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FIBA European Champions Cup: 1
(with Cibona
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: 1984–85)
*
FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup
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(Saporta Cup): 2
(with Cibona
Košarkaški klub Cibona, commonly referred to as Cibona Zagreb or simply Cibona, is a men's professional basketball club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club is a founding member and shareholder of the Adriatic Basketball Association, and compete ...
: 1981–82, 1986–87)
*
FIBA European Champions Cup – top 6
(with Cibona
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: 1982–83)
*
FIBA Korać Cup
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– finalist
(with Cibona
Košarkaški klub Cibona, commonly referred to as Cibona Zagreb or simply Cibona, is a men's professional basketball club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club is a founding member and shareholder of the Adriatic Basketball Association, and compete ...
: 1979–80, 1987–88)
*
Yugoslav League
The Yugoslav First Federal Football League (Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...
: 2
(with Cibona
Košarkaški klub Cibona, commonly referred to as Cibona Zagreb or simply Cibona, is a men's professional basketball club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club is a founding member and shareholder of the Adriatic Basketball Association, and compete ...
: 1981–82, 1983–84)
*
Yugoslav Cup
The Yugoslav Cup ( hr, Pokal Jugoslavije; sr, Куп Југославије; sl, Pokal Jugoslavije, mk, Куп на Југославија), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kup kralja Aleksandra, ...
: 7
(with Cibona
Košarkaški klub Cibona, commonly referred to as Cibona Zagreb or simply Cibona, is a men's professional basketball club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club is a founding member and shareholder of the Adriatic Basketball Association, and compete ...
: 1968–69 (under the name Lokomotiva), 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1987–88)
See also
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List of FIBA EuroBasket winning head coaches
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*
List of EuroLeague-winning head coaches
External links
Basketball Hall of Fame page on NovoselFIBA Hall of Fame Profile
1938 births
Living people
Basketball referees
Croatian basketball coaches
Croatian expatriate basketball people in Italy
Croatian men's basketball players
EuroLeague-winning coaches
FIBA EuroBasket-winning coaches
FIBA Hall of Fame inductees
KK Cibona coaches
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees
Yugoslav basketball coaches
Yugoslav men's basketball players
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