Germany is the champion of Europe in basketball! The German basketball national team was crowned with the title of European champion for the second time in history. Germany defeated Turkey in the final with a score of 88:83.
In both cases, it was shown that the Germans cannot do without a “Yugo.”
After Svetislav Pešić, who led the Germans to their first title back in 1993, this second one is also linked to a coach from our region. By a combination of circumstances, the coach of Germany, Alex Mumbru, gave up his coaching position to Alan Ibrahimagić. The Spanish expert fell ill before the championship and ended up in the hospital.
Born in Belgrade
As the name itself says, this is a coach from our region. Ibrahimagić is an Australian-Bosnian and Herzegovinian expert born in Belgrade.
However, it was a pure coincidence, that is, Alan spent only the first three days of his life in 1978 in the capital of the then Yugoslavia. After that, he returned with his mother, who was studying medicine in Belgrade, to Zvornik, where he spent his childhood.
From Zvornik, at the beginning of the tragic 1990s, he went to Berlin, where he finished high school. He then went to Australia with his parents, where he also got their passport.
He built his coaching career in Germany
He played basketball in Zvornik, then in Alba during the period when Svetislav Pešić was leading the club’s first team, but he had to say goodbye to his playing career early and switch to coaching.
He led the German lower league team Hermsdorf, and from 2007 to 2009 he was an assistant coach for the German U20 national team. He led the Alba cadet team to second place in the Bundesliga, and he was also an assistant coach for the club’s second team from Berlin.
The following years were spent working with various age groups of the German national team, and during the time of coach Henrik Rödl, he became a member of the coaching staff of the German A team. He remained there during Gordon Herbert’s coaching.
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