Serbian basketball coach
Aleksandar "Aco" Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic : Александар Петровић ; 14 October 1959 – 1 December 2014) was a Serbian basketball coach.
Career
Petrović started his coaching career in Radnički Belgrade , where he spent four years. After that, he was assistant coach of the Crvena zvezda and won the 1997–98 Yugoslavia championship .[ 1] FMP Železnik [ 2] Hemofarm Vršac from domestic clubs.
The first foreign engagement was in Russia in the team Lokomotiv Rostov , and with them he came to the final of 2005 FIBA Europe Conference North . Also, Petrović has led more than foreign clubs UNICS ,[ 3] Žalgiris [ 4] [ 5] Azovmash .[ 6]
National team
Petrović was an assistant coach of Svetislav Pešić in the national team of Yugoslavia , with whom he won gold at the 2001 European Championships in Turkey and, a year later, at the World Championships in Indianapolis . He also has a silver medal from the 2009 European Championships in Poland when he was in the coaching staff of Dušan Ivković .
Illness and death
During his work at the club UNICS it was detected the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , and Petović stopped coaching after that. Last UNICS game led by him was against his former club Crvena zvezda in the 2012–13 Eurocup . He died on 1 December 2014 at the age of 55.[ 7]
References
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.
