Radenko Varagić (born 23 September 1973) is a Serbian Dutch

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. He currently serves as a head coach for

BAL Weert Basketball Academie Limburg, commonly known as BAL and for sponsorship reasons as PrismaWorx BAL, is a Dutch basketball club based in Weert in the province of Limburg. The club was founded in 2013 as an academy to develop youth players from the ...

of the

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Coaching career

Born in Serbia, Varagić started his coaching career in 2015 with Ribnica and during 2017 to 2011, he worked for Kraljevo, Krusevac and

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. After a period in the youth academy of

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, he moved to the Netherlands in 2014. On 13 September 2016, Varagić was appointed as

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(DBL). After the 2016–17 season, the club went bankrupt and was replaced by BAL, as he took over as head coach of the club's new DBL team. In the 2020–21 season, he coached BAL to their first playoffs appearance after finishing in eighth place. On 2 May 2021, Varagić won the

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DBL Cup with his team after beating Yoast United in the final. On 6 October 2022, Varagic was appointed as interim head coach of the Netherlands national team after the firing of

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. He was already coaching Netherlands U-16 since 2019.

Personal

Varagić received the Dutch nationality in 2022. He is married to Vesna and has three children.

Coaching record

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Varagic, Radenko 1973 births Living people Basketball Academie Limburg coaches Serbian expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands Serbian men's basketball coaches Sports coaches from Belgrade