Dragiša Šarić ( sr-cyr, Драгиша Шарић; 27 January 1961 – 19 July 2008) was a Serbian
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 ...
player and coach.
Career
Club career
Šarić played for several clubs in his country, most notably with the
KK Partizan
Košarkaški klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Кошаркашки клуб Партизан, English: Partizan Basketball Club), commonly referred to as KK Partizan or simply Partizan, is a professional basketball team based in Belgrade, Belgrade, Ser ...
generation that won the
1991–92 Euroleague.
Coaching career
Šarić was an assistant coach with Partizan. Before that, he was also the head coach of
Vizura.
Šarić was also
player-coach
A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. A player-coach may be a head coach or an assistant coach. They may make changes to the sq ...
for
Úrvalsdeild karla club
Skallagrímur from July 1999 until his resignation in November that same year.
Death
Šarić died while on a vacation in
Pula
Pula (; also known as Pola, it, Pola , hu, Pòla, Venetian; ''Pola''; Istriot: ''Puola'', Slovene: ''Pulj'') is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, and the seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the ...
, Croatia on 19 July 2008 from heart-related issues.
References
External links
Úrvalsdeild statistics
1961 births
2008 deaths
KK Beobanka players
KK Partizan players
KK Vojvodina players
KK Vizura coaches
KK Profikolor players
KK Radnik Bijeljina players
Serbian men's basketball players
Serbian men's basketball coaches
Small forwards
KK Mega Basket coaches
BKK Radnički players
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Hungary
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Iceland
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sportspeople from Bijeljina
Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball) coaches
Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball) players
Skallagrímur men's basketball players
Skallagrímur men's basketball coaches
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