Nationality Serbian Pro career 1984–2005 Weight 80 kg Listed height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Name Aleksandar Dordevic Position Point guard | Listed weight 176 lb (80 kg) Role Basketball player Date joined 1984 NBA draft 1989 / Undrafted Height 1.88 m | |
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League Greek Basketball League
Euroleague Born 26 August 1967 (age 57)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia ( 1967-08-26 ) Parents Bratislav Dordevic, Milijana Dordevic Awards Mr. Europa, Award of Olympic Committee of Serbia for Sportsman of the Year | ||
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Aleksandar "Saša" Đorđević (Anglicized: Sasha Djordjevic, Serbian Cyrillic: Александар "Саша" Ђорђевић, [alě̞ksaːndar sâʃa d͡ʑɔ̝̌ːrd͡ʑe̞vit͡ɕ]; born 26 August 1967) is a former Serbian professional basketball player and current head coach of Bayern Munich and the Serbian national basketball team. He was a 1.88 m (6'2") point guard, and played 108 games for the Yugoslavian national basketball team. His father, Bratislav Đorđević, was head coach of Crvena zvezda.
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- Popular Aleksandar orevi Basketball videos
- Club career
- National team
- Coaching career
- Personal life
- Coaching record
- Awards and accomplishments
- References
In 1995, Đorđević received the Golden Badge award for Best Athlete of Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslav Olympic Committee declared him the Sportsman of the Year.
Club career
Đorđević, who was about to turn 17 years of age, joined Partizan during summer 1984. The youngster's arrival at the club coincided with a front office shakeup that saw Yugoslav and club legend Dragan Kićanović, who had just retired from playing, assume the club's vice-president role. The club also appointed Moka Slavnić, another freshly retired Yugoslav legend, to be the new head coach.
Professionally, Đorđević played for: Partizan (1984–1992), Philips Milano a.k.a. Recoaro Milano (1992–1994), Filodoro Bologna a.k.a. Teamsystem Bologna (1994–1996), the Portland Trail Blazers (September–December 1996, 8 games, 25 points scored), FC Barcelona (January 1997 – 1999), Real Madrid (1999–2002), Scavolini Pesaro (2003–2005), and Armani Jeans Milano (February–June 2005).
He is most remembered for his game-winning, buzzer-beating three-pointer in the 1991–92 FIBA European League season's Final, while he was playing for Partizan against Montigalà Joventut.
Đorđević retired from playing professional basketball on 3 July 2005, after an exhibition game in front of the home crowd in Belgrade, in which many of his former teammates and fierce opponents took part.
National team
In the EuroBasket 1995, Đorđević put on one of the best individual performances ever in a EuroBasket final game, against Lithuania, scoring 41 points, and shooting 9 of 12 on three pointers. Đorđević is also remembered for his performance against Croatia in the 1997 EuroBasket.
Coaching career
On 25 January 2006, Đorđević was named the head coach of one of his former teams, Armani Jeans Milano, a position he left at the end of the 2006–07 season. In the 2011–12 season, he was the head coach of Benetton Treviso.
In 2013, Đorđević was named the head coach of the Serbian national basketball team. With Serbia, he took the silver medal at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
His second major tournament in which he led the Serbian national team was the EuroBasket 2015. In the first phase of the tournament, Serbia dominated in the toughest Group B, with a 5–0 record, and then eliminated Finland and Czech Republic in the round of 16 and quarterfinal games, respectively. However, Serbia were stopped in the semifinal game by Lithuania, by a score of 67–64, and they eventually also lost to the host team, France, in the bronze-medal game, by a score of 81–68.
On 20 June 2015, Đorđević signed a two-year contract to be the head coach of the Greek team Panathinaikos. Days later, he signed an extension with the Basketball Federation of Serbia to be the team's selector until 2019. On 20 April 2016, Panathinaikos announced the termination of Đorđević's contract.
On 1 August 2016, Đorđević signed a two-year contract with the German team Bayern Munich, to be their head coach.
On 21 August 2016, his team won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, with the Serbian national basketball team.
At the EuroBasket 2017, Serbia won the silver medal, after losing in the final game to Slovenia.
Personal life
Đorđević is one of the UNICEF National Ambassadors for Serbia, alongside Emir Kusturica, Ana Ivanovic, and Jelena Janković, one of the founders of the humanitarian organization Group Seven, as well as the president of the Belgrade Marathon.
Đorđević has also worked as a sports commentator for EuroLeague TV.
Coaching record
Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the team played during the season. He also coached in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.
Awards and accomplishments
Some of the honors Đorđević won as a senior player are:
Honors won as a head coach: