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Svetislav Pešić
	Pešić with FC Barcelona in 2018
Personal information
Born	28 August 1949 (age 75); Novi Sad, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian / German
Listed height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Listed weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Career information
NBA draft	1971: undrafted
Playing career	1964–1979
Position	Shooting guard
Number	15
Coaching career	1982–present
Career history
As player:
1964–1967	Pirot
1967–1971	Partizan
1971–1979	Bosna
As coach:
1982–1987	Bosna
1987–1993	Germany
1993–2000	Alba Berlin
2001–2002	FR Yugoslavia
2001–2002	RheinEnergie Köln
2002–2004	FC Barcelona
2004–2006	Lottomatica Roma
2006–2007	Akasvayu Girona
2007–2008	Dynamo Moscow
2008–2009	Crvena zvezda
2010–2011	Power Electronics Valencia
2011–2012	Crvena zvezda
2012	Germany
2012–2016	Bayern Munich
2018–2020	FC Barcelona
2021–	Serbia
Career highlights and awards
	As player: EuroLeague champion (1979); Yugoslav League champion (1978); Yugoslav Cup winner (1978); As a head coach: FIBA World Cup champion (2002); 2× FIBA EuroBasket champion (1993, 2001); EuroLeague champion (2003); FIBA Korać Cup champion (1995); FIBA EuroCup champion (2007); Yugoslav League champion (1983); 5× Bundesliga champion (1997–2000, 2014); 2× Liga ACB champion (2003, 2004); Catalan League champion (2019); Yugoslav Cup winner (1984); 2× German Cup winner (1997, 1999); 3× Spanish Cup winner (2003, 2018, 2019); FIBA Hall of Fame (2020); European Coach of the Year (2003); FIBA EuroStar (1998); 3× Bundesliga Coach of the Year (1996, 1998, 1999); Spanish AEEB Coach of the Year (2019); Piva Ivković Award for Lifetime Achievement (2001);
	FIBA Hall of Fame
Men's basketball
Head Coach for Serbia
Summer Olympic Games
FIBA World Cup
FIBA EuroBasket
Head Coach for Germany
FIBA EuroBasket
Head Coach for Yugoslavia
Under-19 World Cup
European Championship for Juniors
European Championship for Cadets

Svetislav "Kari" Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светислав "Кари" Пешић; born 28 August 1949) is a Serbian professional basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Serbia men's national team.

Playing career

During his club playing career, Pešić played with Pirot (1964–1967), Partizan (1967–1971), and Bosna (1971–1979). As a member of Bosna, he won a Yugoslav Cup and a Yugoslav League championship, in 1978. Also, he won the FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) championship in 1979 with Bosna.^[1]

Coaching career

Club coaching career

On the club level, Pešić won the triple crown in 2003, while he was the head coach of FC Barcelona. On 16 November 2010, he was named the head coach of Power Electronics Valencia, for the rest of the 2010–11 season.^[2] In November 2012, Pešić was named the head coach of the German team Bayern Munich.^[3] On 28 February 2015, he extended his contract with the club until 2017.^[4] On 24 July 2016, he left Bayern at his own request, for health reasons.^[5]

On 9 February 2018, he returned to FC Barcelona as the team's head coach, until the end of the season.^[6]

National team coaching career

Pešić led the Yugoslavian junior national team, that featured future international stars Vlade Divac, Saša Đorđević, Toni Kukoč, and Dino Rađa, to a gold medal at the 1987 FIBA World Junior Championship (which was later split into separate under-19 and under-21 events), by defeating the Team USA twice during the tournament.^[7]

As the head coach of the senior German national basketball team, he won the gold medal at the EuroBasket 1993 (organized by Germany).

With the FR Yugoslavian senior side, Pešić won gold medals at the 2002 FIBA World Championship, which was held in Indianapolis, and the EuroBasket 2001 (organized by Turkey). He stepped down from the position on 1 December 2002.^[8]

On 28 September 2021, the Basketball Federation of Serbia hired him as the new head coach for the Serbia men's national team.^[9] Pešić led Serbia to silver medal at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[10]

Coaching record

Legend
G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win-loss %

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.

EuroLeague

Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Result
Barcelona
	2002–03	21	17	4	.810	Won EuroLeague Championship
	2003–04	20	14	6	.700	Eliminated at Top 16 Stage
Valencia	2010–11	20	11	9	.550	Eliminated in quarterfinals
Bayern	2013–14	24	9	15	.375	Eliminated at Top 16 stage
	2014–15	10	2	8	.200	Eliminated at the group stage
	2015–16	10	4	6	.400	Eliminated at the group stage
Barcelona	2017–18	8	4	4	.500	Eliminated in regular season
	2018–19	35	20	15	.571	Eliminated in quarterfinals
	2019–20	28	22	6	.786	Season cancelled
Career		176	103	73	.585

Personal life

Along with Serbian, Pešić also holds German citizenship. His son, Marko (born 1976), is a former professional basketball player, who represented the Germany national team in four major tournaments. Former German basketball player Jan Jagla, is his son-in-law, due to his marriage with Pešić's daughter, Ivana.