Jovica Antonić

Jovica Antonić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јовица Антонић, born 13 July 1966) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player who is the youth system coordinator for the Crvena zvezda youth system.

Jovica Antonić
Crvena zvezda Meridianbet
PositionYouth System Coordinator
Personal information
Born (1966-07-13) 13 July 1966
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Listed height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Career information
NBA draft1988: undrafted
Playing career1982–1990
PositionPoint guard
Number5
Coaching career1990–present
Career history
As player:
1982–1983Partizan
00Jagodina
00Poliester Priboj
1988–1990Mladost Zemun
As coach:
1990–1994Mladost Zemun
1994–1995Radnički Belgrade
1996–1997Zemun
1997–1998Sloga (advisor)
1998Crvena zvezda Youth
1998–1999Crvena zvezda
2000–2001Igokea
2002Spartak Subotica
2003OKK Beograd
2004Crvena zvezda Ladies
2005Lavovi 063
2005–2007Hemofarm Ladies
2009–2010Ergonom
2010–2011Jagodina
2011–2012Konstantin
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Women's Basketball
Head coach for  Serbia
Europe U20 Championship
Silver medal – second place 2007 Bulgaria Team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Italy Team
Men's basketball
Assistant coach for  Serbia
Summer Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
FIBA World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2014 Spain Team
EuroBasket
Silver medal – second place 2017 Turkey Team

Playing career

A point guard, Antonić played in Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1990. During his playing days, he played for Partizan (3 games during the 1982–83 season), Jagodina, KK Poliester Priboj and Mladost Zemun. He retired as a player with Mladost in 1990 due to serious injury.[1]

Coaching career

Men's basketball

In 1991, Antonić began his coaching career in Mladost Zemun. After that, he moved to Radnički Belgrade. In November 1998, Antonić was named the coach of Crvena zvezda for the rest of the 1998–99 season. Crvena zvezda parted ways with him on 10 October 1999. The club sat well in the domestic league, but fared poorly in the EuroLeague 1999–2000 season. Antonić had a stint as a head coach of Igokea during the 2000–01 season when he won the Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also, he coached Spartak Subotica,[2] OKK Beograd,[3] Lavovi 063, Ergonom, and Jagodina.[4]

Antonić served as a head coach for Konstantin during the 2011–12 season. After the season he resign due to health issues.[4]

Women's basketball

Antonić was a head coach of Hemofarm[5] from Vršac where he won the Serbian Basketball League and the Milan Ciga Vasojević Cup in the 2006–07 season. Also, he coached Crvena zvezda in 2004.

National teams coaching career

Women's basketball

Antonić was a head coach of the Serbia national team and led the ladies at the 2007 EuroBasket Women in Italy and the 2009 EuroBasket Women in Latvia.[5]

Also, Antonić has coached the Serbia Under-20 national team that won the silver medal at the 2007 European Championship for Women in Bulgaria and the bronze medal at the 2008 European Championship for Women in Italy.[5]

Serbia men's national team

From 2013 to 2019, Antonić was an assistant coach of Aleksandar Đorđević in the Serbia national team, with whom he won three silver medals; the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and the EuroBasket 2017. In January 2020, coach Igor Kokoškov announced that Antonić is an assistant coach in Serbia's new coaching staff.[6] In September 2021, Antonić left the National team as the assistant coach after eight years.

Executive career

Antonić served as a sporting director for Konstantin between 1 January 2020[4] and August 2022.

On 17 August 2022, Crvena zvezda hired Antonić as their new youth system coordinator for the under-19 and under-16 teams.[7][8]

Career achievements

See also

References
  1. "Jovica Antonić" (PDF). okkbeograd.org.rs. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  2. JOVICA ANTONIC JE NOVI TRENER SPARTAKA IZ SUBOTICE
  3. Jovica Antonić na klupi OKK Beograda
  4. "Jovica Antonić se vraća u KK Konstantin". juznevesti.com. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  5. Jovica Antonić, FIBA Europe
  6. "Kokoškov odredio sastav stručnog štaba". b92.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  7. "Antonić se vraća na Mali Kalemegdan posle dve decenije, Šakota preuzima jednu od selekcija Zvezde". mozzartsport.com. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  8. "Mlađe selekcije KK Crvena zvezda dobile nove trenere, Antonić koordinator". kkcrvenazvezda.rs. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
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