Srđan Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Срђан Јовановић; born 1 March 1976) is a Serbian-Greek professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

coach and former player, who is the current head coach for Avijeh Sanat Parsa Mashhad of the

Iranian Basketball Super League The Iranian Basketball Super League (IBSL) is a professional men's basketball league in Iran. It was founded in 1998. The current champions is Shahrdari Gorgan. The league follows the promotion and relegation system in which the worst two tea ...

. He holds Greek citizenship, under the name of Srtzan Karageorgiou ( gr, Σέρτζιαν Καραγεωργίου).

Playing career

Jovanović had two stints with the

Crvena zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional Association football, foot ...

of the

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, ...

. In the 1992–93 season, he won the Yugoslav League with Crvena zvezda and played together with

Dragoljub Vidačić Dragoljub "Ljuba" Vidačić (born December 26, 1970) is a Serbian basketball coach and former player. Early life Born to a father from Trebinje and mother from Gornji Milanovac, Vidačić was raised in Višegrad with three older brothers. Coach ...

, Nebojša Ilić,

Saša Obradović Saša Obradović (Anglicized: Sasha Obradovic; sr-Cyrl, Саша Обрадовић, ; born 29 January 1969) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for AS Monaco of the French LNB Pro A Stan ...

Mileta Lisica Mileta Lisica ( sr-cyr, Милета Лисица; 7 October 1966 – 11 November 2020) was a Serbian-Slovenian professional basketball player. Playing career Lisica had played for the Poliester from Priboj and the KK Sloboda Tuzla, Sloboda fr ...

Predrag Stojaković Predrag ( sr-cyr, Предраг) is a Slavic masculine given name, predominantly borne by ethnic Slavs, derived from ''pre-'' ("very, much") and '' -drag'' ("dear, beloved"), both common in Slavic dithematic names. It roughly means "very beloved ...

, Rastko Cvetković, Aleksandar Trifunović and

Dejan Tomašević Dejan Tomašević ( sr, Дејан Томашевић; born 6 May 1973) is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player. An All-EuroLeague Team selection on two occasions, he played with Borac Čačak, Crvena zvezda, Partizan, ...

. Later, he also played the 2001–02 season for the Zvezda. During the 2004–05 season, he played for his hometown team

Atlas An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geograp ...

of the First League of Serbia & Montenegro. In Italy, Jovanović played for the Stefanel Milano, the Telit Trieste and the Poliform Cantù of the

Lega Serie A The Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie A (Italian for ''National Professionals League Serie A''), commonly known as LNPA or Lega Serie A (Serie A League), is the governing body that runs the major professional football competitions in Italy, m ...

and for the Esse.Ti Imola of the Serie A2. In Greece, Jovanović played for the Aris BSA Thessaloniki, the Makedonikos of the Greek League and for the

Xanthi Xanthi ( el, Ξάνθη, ''Xánthi'', ) is a city in the region of Western Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi regional unit of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Amphitheatrically built on the foot of Rhodope m ...

of the Greek A2 League. In later stage of his career Jovanović played in Hungary ( Kecskeméti KTE and PVSK Panthers), Poland (

Kotwica Kołobrzeg The ''Kotwica'' (; Polish for "Anchor") was a World War II emblem of the Polish Underground State and ''Armia Krajowa'' (Home Army, or ''AK''). It was created in 1942 by members of the ''AK'' Wawer Minor sabotage unit, as an easily usable emb ...

and

Świecie Świecie (; german: Schwetz) is a town in northern Poland with 25,968 inhabitants (2006), situated in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999); it was in Bydgoszcz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. It is the capital of Świecie County. Locati ...

) and

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

(

Shahrekord Shahr-e Kord ( fa, شهركرد, also Romanized as Shahrekord and Shahr Kord) is the capital city of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. It is the largest city in the province, and is 90 km away from Iran's third largest city, Isfahan ...

). He retired as a player with Xanthi in 2010.

Coaching career

In 2019, Jovanović was hired as the head coach for Avijeh Sanat Parsa Mashhad of the

Career achievements and awards

champion: 1 (with

: 1992–93)

References

External links

Player Profile
at eurobasket.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Jovanovic, Srdan 1976 births Living people Aris B.C. players Basketball players from Belgrade Greek Basket League players Greek men's basketball players Greek expatriate basketball people in Serbia Greek people of Serbian descent Guards (basketball) Kecskeméti TE (basketball) players KK Beopetrol/Atlas Beograd players KK Crvena zvezda players Makedonikos B.C. players Olimpia Milano players Pallacanestro Cantù players Pallacanestro Trieste players PVSK Panthers players Serbian men's basketball coaches Serbian men's basketball players Serbian expatriate basketball people in Greece Serbian expatriate basketball people in Iran Serbian expatriate basketball people in Italy Serbian expatriate basketball people in Hungary Serbian expatriate basketball people in Poland Serbian expatriate basketball people in Romania