Basketball club Sutjeska has resolved the issue of the coach - the new head coach of the Nikšić team is Marko Simonović, a former Serbian national team player, the club announced today.
Simonović was in Nikšić yesterday and signed a two-year contract with the club.
"The basketball club Sutjeska Elektroprivreda is very pleased to inform the public that the new coach of our club is Marko Simonović. He is a former Serbian national team member, a former winger, behind whom there is a rich and successful playing career, and ahead of whom, we believe, an equally rich and successful coaching career lies. Marko Simonović was in Nikšić yesterday, toured the club's premises and signed a two-year contract with Sutjeska," Sutjeska announced today.
At the start of last season, Sutjeska was led by Dragan Bajić, who left the team in January, so Boško Bošković was the coach until the end of the season.
In his playing career, Simonović played for Lavovi 063, Ergonom, Ostend, Hemofarm, Alba, Budućnost Voli, Po Ortez, Crvena zvezda, Zenit, Cedevita-Olimpija and Unicaja.
With Red Star, he was the ABA League champion four times, the Serbian champion four times, and won the Serbian Cup trophy five times.
In the Buducnost jersey, he won three trophies in the Montenegrin Championship and the Cup.
He was a member of the Serbian national team. He played at the 2015 European Championship and two World Basketball Championships – in 2014 and 2019. At the 2014 World Championship in Spain, he won a silver medal with the national team, while at the Rio Olympics two years later he also won a silver medal.
He has gold and silver from two Universiades – in 2007 and 2009.
After finishing his playing career, he devoted himself to coaching. He was on the coaching staff of Red Star, when coach was Vladimir Jovanović, and before Sutjeska, he independently managed Radnički Kragujevac.
Next season, Sutjeska will play in the NLB ABA2 League and the First Montenegrin Basketball League.
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