By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Barcelona officially announced the deal with Pesic, while it was followed by a press conference and the presentation of the coach.
The Serbian coach, who led Barça from 2002 to 2004 and won the club’s first Euroleague title returns until the end of the season after Sito Alonso’s departure.
Pesic returns to the sidelines after almost two years away; he last coached FC Bayern Munich from 2012 through 2016. Pesic, who won the EuroLeague as a player with Bosna Sarajevo in 1979, began his coaching career with that same club. He has also coached ALBA Berlin and Cologne in Germany, Rome in Italy, Girona and Valencia in Spain, Dynamo Moscow in Russia and Crvena Zvezda in his native Serbia as well as the national teams of Yugoslavia and Germany.
Pesic’s decorated career has seen him lead Germany to the title at EuroBasket 1993 and Yugoslavia to gold medals at EuroBasket 2001 and the 2002 FIBA World Championships. He won the 1995 Korac Cup with ALBA, the 2007 Europe Cup with Girona and a total of eight national championships and four cups in three different countries.
Pesic was presented today to the media and as he said: “I need time but there is no time. Players can help the whole situation and in the next few days, we will train, talk and find a way. To be united is to win, it is to fight at the moment when the match is not going well. If everything went well, Pesic would not be here”.
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