Milan Opačić
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Personal information | |
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Born | Požega, FPR Yugoslavia | July 16, 1960
Nationality | Serbian |
Career information | |
College | University of Belgrade Basketball College Belgrade |
Career history | |
1980–1986 | Coach of BC Užička republika |
1986–1988 | Coach of BC Vojvoda Stepa |
1991–1992 | Chief of Staff of BC Infos RTM Belgrade |
1993–1996 | Head Coach of BC ABM Neterstim |
1994 | Coach of the pioneer selection of Yugoslavia in Saint Petersburg |
2008–2010 | General Manager of BC Crvena zvezda |
2011–2019 | FIBA Expert Associate |
2016–2017 | Sports Director of BC Al-Ahli, Libya |
2018 | Head Coach of the Tamil Nadu state team, India |
Milan Opačić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Опачић; born July 16, 1960) is a former basketball player, former executive director of the , former general manager of BC Crvena zvezda and current international basketball coach and sports manager.[1]
Life and career[]
Opačić was born in Požega. He attended the October 13th Gymnasium in Paraćin from 1975 to 1976 and the Zemun Gymnasium from 1976 to 1979, and in Belgrade he graduated from the and later from the Basketball College. While he trained basketball, he played at a point guard position, and his role model was Zoran Moka Slavnić.[2] Opačić worked as an engineer for a while, and then devoted himself entirely to sport. He was assistant to maintenance director at PVC Petrohemija in Pančevo from 1987 to 1988 and a senior independent constructor at the Military Technical Institute Belgrade from 1988 to 1994. He built his career of a basketball coach and manager by working on the development of the greatest Serbian, Yugoslavian and foreign talents from forty countries around the world – with national team members and EuroLeague players.
He was the general manager of BC Crvena zvezda from 2008 to 2010, when Nemanja Bjelica, Tadija Dragićević, Elmedin Kikanović, Marko Kešelj, Nemanja Nedović, Vladimir Štimac played for this club. From 2011 to 2019 he was an FIBA expert associate at its headquarters in Geneva and as the head coach of the Tamil Nadu state team from Chennai he won the Indian National Basketball Championship in 2018.[3][4][5] He currently lives and works as the technical director of FIBA BG Basketball Academy in Beijing.[6][7]
Milan Opačić is the founder, owner and former director (until 2019) of the international basketball camp YUBAC, which has a license from the Basketball Association of Serbia and which is the only camp in the ex-Yugoslavia region that organized the FIBA competition. Željko Obradović, Dušan Ivković, Duško Vujošević, Igor Kokoškov, Svetislav Pešić, Aleksandar Đorđević and others took part in the work of this camp, whose promoter is Vasilije Micić.[8][9][10]
Opačić is a member of the Executive Board of FIBA's (FIBA WABC).[11]
He speaks English and German language.
Coaching seminars[]
Milan Opačić is a participant and organizer of relevant coaching seminars with Don Nelson, Gregg Popovich, Larry Brown, Rubén Magnano, Ettore Messina, Pini Gershon, Pablo Laso, Sergio Scariolo, Svetislav Pešić and Božidar Maljković. He was a lecturer at professional coaching seminars in Austria in 1997 and Russia in 1998, executive director of the Basketball Clinic Belgrade (Serbian Cyrillic: Београдски кошаркашки семинар) from 2002 to 2006, organized by the Association of Basketball Coaches of Serbia, and publisher and member of the editorial board from the first issue of the magazine Coach (Serbian Cyrillic: Тренер).[12]
He created Basketball Time Planner in 2005.
See more[]
References[]
- ^ "Опачић менаџер 'Црвене звезде'", Politika, August 8, 2008. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "Pet na pet – Milan Opačić: Navijačko opredeljenje stiče se rođenjem", Kablarnet, March 29, 2019. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "I'm the first foreigner coaching the TN team and that in itself is a challenge", The Times of India, January 23, 2018. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "Da se zna da smo iz zemlje košarke – Srbi osvojili prvenstvo druge najmnogoljudnije države na svetu", Blic, January 25, 2018. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "Milan Opačić: U finalu sa specijalcima", Danas, February 1, 2018. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "FIBA BG Basketball Academy first coaches course takes place in Qingyuan City, China", FIBA, June 18, 2020. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "First FIBA Mini Basketball Coaches Course takes place in China", FIBA, March 31, 2021. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ About YUBAC, YUBAC. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "Kamp šampiona", Blic, July 15, 2007. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "'Nastavićemo tradiciju rada u vrhunskim uslovima' – Počinje 28. sezona kampa 'YUBAC', Vidačić novi direktor", Blic, July 1, 2019. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "WABC Executive Committee Members", FIBA. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
- ^ "For the new era", Coach, 2003. Retrieved: October 6, 2021.
External links[]
- YUBAC camp website
- Milan Opacic | 2018 – 68th Senior National Basketball Championship for Men & Women at Chennai, YouTube, 2018. Retrieved: October 8, 2021.
- 1960 births
- Living people
- People from Požega, Serbia
- People from Belgrade
- Serbian sportspeople
- Serbian basketball players
- Serbian sports coaches
- Serbian basketball coaches
- Basketball in Tamil Nadu
- Serbian businesspeople