Arsenije Pešić ( sr-cyr, Арсеније Пешић; born 10 June 1955) is a Serbian former professional

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player.

Playing career

Pešić played most of this career for Partizan. He was a member of the trophy generation led by

Dragan Kićanović Dragan Kićanović (; born 17 August 1953) is a Serbian and Yugoslav retired professional basketball player. A tall shooting guard, Kićanović played in the 1970s and 1980s, and is considered to be one of the best European players and scorers ...

and

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in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won two Korać Cups and two Yugoslav championships with the Partizan. Pešić played the first half of the 1987–88 season for Segafredo Gorizia of Italian Serie A2. He averaged 17.4 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game, oven nine games. Also, he played for Sloboda Tuzla and for

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where he finished his playing career after 1988–89 season.

Career achievements and awards

FIBA Korać Cup The FIBA Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA Europe between the 1971–72 and 2001–02 seasons. It was the European professional club basketball system, third-tier level club competition in European basketball, a ...

winner: 2 (with Partizan: 1977–78, 1978–79) * Yugoslav League champion: 2 (with Partizan: 1978–79, 1980–81) *

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup (; ; , ), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup (; , and between 1947 and 1991 as the Marshal Tito Cup (; ; ; ), was one of two major association football, football competitions in Socialist Federal Re ...

winner: 2 (with Partizan: 1978–79; with IMT: 1986–87)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pešić, Arsenije 1955 births Living people KK IMT Beograd players KK Partizan players KK Vojvodina players KK Sloboda Tuzla players Sportspeople from Berane Power forwards Serbian men's basketball players Serbian expatriate basketball people in Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian expatriate basketball people in Italy Serbs of Montenegro Yugoslav men's basketball players