Miloš Šakota ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Шакота, , born 11 June 1984) is a Greek–Serbian
professional
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basketball
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coach and former player who is the assistant coach of
AEK Athens
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Establishe ...
. Standing at , he played both
small forward
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and
power forward
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positions.
Playing career
Šakota played for
Ionikos NF,
Near East
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,
Aigaleo
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,
Apollon Limassol
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(Cyprus),
CSKA Sofia
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(Bulgaria), Al Nizwa (
Oman
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),
Olympias Patras,
Arkadikos, and
AE Livadia during his playing career.
He played in the
European-wide 2nd-tier level
EuroCup, during the
2003–04 season, with Ionikos NF. He retired as a player with Livadia in 2015, to pursuit a coaching career.
In October 2016, Šakota returned from the retirement and signed for AE Santorinis. On 31 July 2017, he signed for Lokros Atalantis.
In 2018, Šakota joined a roster
Slodes of the
Second Basketball League of Serbia, upon an invitation of
Nenad Mišanović. For the second time, he retired as a player in 2020.
Coaching career
Šakota has a stint in 2015 when the
Greek League club
AEK hired him as an assistant coach, joining the coaching staff of his father
Dragan Šakota.
After second retirement in 2020, Šakota joined the
Slodes staff as an assistant coach. Afterwards, he joined a youth system of
Žitko Basket as the U19 head coach.
On 17 August 2022,
Crvena zvezda
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hired Šakota as their new head coach for the
under-16 team.
Ον August 5, 2024, Šakota returned to AEK as an assistant coach.
Personal life
Šakota is a son of
Dragan Šakota, a professional basketball
coach
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and former player, and the older brother of
Dušan Šakota, a retired Greek professional basketball player.
His father Dragan is a
FIBA Saporta Cup
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champion in
1991
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and
FIBA Champions League
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champion in
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
. His brother Dušan is a two-time
EuroLeague
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champion, winning both titles with
Panathinaikos, in
2007
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Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
and
2009
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.
References
External links
Player Profileat proballers.com
Player Profileat eurobasket.com
Player Profileat realgm.com
Player Profileat euroleaguebasketball.net
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1984 births
Living people
21st-century Greek sportsmen
Aigaleo B.C. players
Apollon Limassol BC players
Arkadikos B.C. players
Basketball players from Belgrade
BC CSKA Sofia players
Greek basketball coaches
Greek Basket League players
Greek expatriate basketball people in Cyprus
Greek expatriate basketball people in Serbia
Greek men's basketball players
Greek people of Serbian descent
Ionikos N.F. B.C. players
Naturalized citizens of Greece
KK Crvena zvezda (youth) coaches
KK Slodes players
Near East B.C. players
Olympias Patras B.C. players
Power forwards
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Bulgaria
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Cyprus
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Greece
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Oman
Serbian men's basketball coaches
Serbian men's basketball players
Small forwards