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2020–21 Junior ABA League
The 2020–21 Junior ABA League was the fourth season of the Junior ABA League with eight men's under-19 teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia. Teams are the under-19 selections of the ABA League teams. The season will a single-elimination tournament held in Čajetina, Serbia from 21–24 May 2021. Mega Soccerbet U19 won its second Junior ABA League title defeating Budućnost VOLI U19 in the final. Guard Nikola Jović was named the Junior ABA League MVP award. Teams A total of 8 teams contested the league, excluding representatives from Croatia, North Macedonia, and Slovenia. Team allocation Locations and personnel Venue The tournament will be held in Čajetina, Serbia. Bracket Quarterfinals ''All times are local UTC+1.'' Crvena zvezda mts U19 v Sloboda Užice U19 Budućnost VOLI U19 v Podgorica U19 Igokea U19 v Borac Čačak U19 Mega Soccerbet U19 v Partizan NIS U19 Semifinals Budućnost VOLI U19 v Igokea U19 Sloboda Užice U ...
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Čajetina
Čajetina ( sr-cyr, Чајетина) is a small town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of western Serbia. According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has 14,585 inhabitants. One of the most notable settlements in the municipality of Čajetina is a popular tourist town of Zlatibor (town), Zlatibor. Climate Čajetina has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: ''Dfb''). Settlements Aside from the town of Čajetina, the municipality comprises the following settlements: * Alin Potok * Branešci (Čajetina), Branešci * Golovo * Gostilje * Dobroselica (Čajetina), Dobroselica * Drenova (Čajetina), Drenova * Željine * Zlatibor (town), Zlatibor * Jablanica (Čajetina), Jablanica * Kriva Reka (Čajetina), Kriva Reka * Ljubiš * Mačkat * Mušvete * Rakovica (Čajetina), Rakovica * Rožanstvo * Rudine (Čajetina), Rudine * Sainovina * Semegnjevo * Sirogojno * Stublo * Tripkova * Trnava (Čajetina), Trnava * Šljivovica, Čajetina, Šljiv ...
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Slovenia
Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, which is part of the Mediterranean Sea. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of approximately 2.1 million people. Slovene language, Slovene is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. Ljubljana, the capital and List of cities and towns in Slovenia, largest city of Slovenia, is geographically situated near the centre of the country. Other larger urban centers are Maribor, Ptuj, Kranj, Celje, and Koper. Slovenia's territory has been part of many different states: the Byzantine Empire, the Carolingian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Republic of Venice ...
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Milivoje Lazić
Milivoje Lazić ( sr-Cyrl, Миливоје Лазић; born 13 May 1978) is a Slovenian-born Serbian professional basketball coach. Early life Lazić was born in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia). He played basketball for Smelt Olimpija and the Slovenian under-14 national team. In 1991, he moved to Belgrade, Serbia, following of the breakup of Yugoslavia. In Serbia, Lazić played for OKK Beograd and Kolubara from Lazarevac. Due to the serious injury, he had to retire from professional basketball. Lazić earned his master's degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Sport and Physical Education. Coaching career Lazić began his coaching career with FMP in Belgrade. In 1998, he became the coach for youth teams. In 2005, he got promoted to the senior squad. While working at FMP, Lazić got his first taste of the NBA through Summer League coaching stints in 2007 with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls. In 2010, Lazi ...
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Dragoljub Avramović
Dragoljub Avramović ( sr-Cyrl, Драгољуб Аврамовић; born 10 February 1979) is a Serbian professional basketball coach who is the youth system coordinator for the Crvena zvezda youth system and their U19 head coach. Coaching career Since 2010, Avramović coached youth systems of Belgrade-based clubs Beovuk 72 and Partizan prior he joined Mega Basket in July 2018. Coaching the Mega Basket U18 & U19 selections, Avramović won the Junior ABA League in 2020–21 and 2021–22, as well as the Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament in 2021–22. National team coaching career In August 2021, Avramović was the head coach of the Serbia national under-16 team at the 2021 FIBA U16 European Challengers, winning the Group C with a 5–0 record. In December 2021, the Basketball Federation of Serbia named Avramović as their new head coach for the Serbia U17 team in 2022. His team finished the 5th at the 2022 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. Career ach ...
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Laktaši
Laktaši ( sr-cyrl, Лакташи) is a city in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the municipality had a population of 34,966 inhabitants, while the town has a population of 5,879 inhabitants. Geography Physical geography Laktaši municipality is located in Lijevče polje, 19 km north of Banja Luka. The river Vrbas, which flows in the middle of its territory, divides it into the Župa (right bank of the Vrbas) and the Potkozarsko-Lijevčanski part (the left bank of the Vrbas). Lijevče polje, along the fertile Semberian plains, a geographical part of the Peripanon region, is the main granary of Republika Srpska. Political geography The Laktaši municipality is located in the northeastern part of the entity of Republika Srpska on the coordinates of 44°54′33″N and 17°18′06″E and borders the city of Banja Luka, and the municipalities of Gradiška, Srbac, Prnjavor and Čelinac. Laktaši municipality takes up an area of 338,37 km2 (149,95 sq m ...
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Miloš Obrenović (basketball)
Miloš Obrenović ( sr-cyr, Милош Обреновић; born 12 May 1988) is a Serbian professional basketball coach. Coaching career Obrenović coached Sloboda Užice and the Bosnian team Varda HE. Obrenović was an assistant coach for the Turkish club Banvit until 2018. In September 2019, Obrenović was hired as the head coach for the Crvena zvezda Cadets (under-16 team), succeeding Slobodan Klipa who took the Zvezda's Juniors. National teams coaching career Obrenović was an assistant coach of the U18 Serbia national team that won the silver medal at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship in Poland. Obrenović was an assistant coach of the U16 Serbia national team that won the bronze medal at the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship in Latvia and Lithuania. At both championships (2011 and 2012), he was an assistant coach to the head coach Marko Ičelić. Also, Obrenović was an assistant coach at the 2015 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship in Kaunas, Lithua ...
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Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and ...
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Čačak
Čačak ( sr-Cyrl, Чачак, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Moravica District in central Serbia. It is located in the West Morava Valley. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 69,598 while the city administrative area has 105,612 inhabitants. The city lies about 144 km south of the Serbian capital, Belgrade. It is also located near the Ovčar-Kablar Gorge ("Serbian Mount Athos"), with over 30 monasteries built in the gorge since the 14th century. Geography Located for the most part in western Morava Valley, the city of Čačak forms a link between the undulating hills of Šumadija in the north and the hilly and mountainous areas of the inner Dinaric Alps in the south. The central part of the city is the Čačak basin, located between the mountains of Jelica in the south, Ovčar and Kablar (mountain), Kablar in the west and Vujan in the north, while in the east it is open to the Kraljevo basin. These mou ...
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Podgorica
Podgorica ( cnr-Cyrl, Подгорица; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Montenegro, largest city of Montenegro. The city is just north of Lake Skadar and close to coastal destinations on the Adriatic Sea. Historically, it was Podgorica's position at the confluence of the Ribnica (Morača), Ribnica and Morača River, Morača rivers and at the meeting-point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley that encouraged settlement. The surrounding landscape is predominantly mountainous terrain. After World War II, Podgorica was first designated as the capital of Montenegro in 1946. At that time, it was renamed Titograd in honor of Josip Broz Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia. It served as the capital of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until Montenegro's declaration of independence in 2006, after which it was reaffirmed as the capital of an independent Montenegro. The city's original name, Pod ...
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KK Crvena Zvezda (youth)
KK Crvena zvezda is a men's professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia, which has youth system teams, cadets (under-16) and juniors (under-18 and under-19). The U18 and U19 teams play in the RODA Junior Basketball League of Serbia and the Junior Adriatic League. They have won a Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament. The U16 team plays in the Triglav Cadet Basketball League of Serbia. Some of the most notable home-grown players of Crvena zvezda are Zoran Slavnić, a member of the 50 greatest players in the history of FIBA international basketball, as selected in 1991, then Igor Rakočević – the three-time EuroLeague Top Scorer, Peja Stojaković – the NBA All-Star player and FIBA EuroBasket MVP, as well as Vladimir Cvetković and Dragan Kapičić. Further notable home-grown players include Goran Rakočević, Ivan Sarjanović, Žarko Koprivica, Slobodan Nikolić, Predrag Bogosavljev, Boban Janković, Mirko Milićević, Branislav Prelević, ...
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Quarterfinals
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KK Podgorica
Košarkaški klub Podgorica (), commonly referred to as KK Podgorica, is a men's professional basketball club based in Podgorica, Montenegro. The club has the same management structure as Budućnost Bemax. They are currently competing in the Montenegrin First League and the ABA League Second Division. History The club played the 2011–12 season in the Montenegrin League. In the 2019–20 season, Podgorica won the First B League and got promoted to the First A League for the 2020–21 season. In June 2020, they have received a wild card for the 2020–21 season of the ABA League Second Division. Players Current roster Head coaches * Petar Mijović (2011–2012) * Vladan Radović (2019–2020) * Zoran Kašćelan (2020–2021) * Nebojša Bogavac (2021–present) Notable players * Mikaile Tmušić * Marko Mugoša * Nikola Žižić References External links * Club profileat eurobasket.com Club profileat realgm.com { ...
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