MIHAILO POCEK
Date of Birth: the 18 th of may, 1960 Place of birth: Valjevo (Serbia)
Players Career:

1976-1987 CB METALAC Valjevo
During the 70's and 80's, he was one of the best point guards in the former First Yugoslavian League,

Winner of the various golden (Manheim, 1977), silver (Le Touquet, 1977) and bronze (Teramo, 1978) medals with the Kadete's and Junior National Team of Yugoslavia

Coaches Career:

1987-90 BC METALAC Valjevo ,Coach Pioneers, Kadetes and Juniors
1990-92 BC METALAC Valjevo, Senior Team Head Coach The First "B" Yugoslavian League
1992-94 BC BIG-ENEX Valjevo, Cooordinator Youth Teams
1994 Founder of BC DRAFT and Basketball School
1995/96 BC METALAC Valjevo Senior Team Head Coach The First "B" Yugoslavian League
1996/97 BC PANATHINAIKOS Athens, Specialization with Bozidar Maljkovic
1997-99 Permanent Coach of the YUBAC International Basketball Camp at Kopaonik
1997/98 Member of the Coaching Team
Yugoslavian Junior National Team
1999/2000 BC SAVINJSKI HOPSI Polzela, Individual Coach and Coordinator of youth teams The First Slovenian League and Korac Cup
2000/01 BC SAVINJSKI HOPSI Polzela, Senior Team Head Coach The First Slovenian League and Korac Cup
2001/02 BC BUDUCNOST Valjevo, Senior Team Head Coach, The First "B" Yugoslavian League
2006/06 BC KOPER Koper, Senior Team Head Coach, The First Slovenian League

Successes:

1996/97 His five players from the BC DRAFT have been included at the Kadete's and Junior National Teams of Yugoslavia,
1997 ARIS and PERISTERI (Greece) showed an interest for his promising and young players

1998 Two players from BC DRAFT transfered to the BUDUCNOST Podgorica,

2001 Two players from BC DRAFT transfered to the PARTIZAN Belgrade

Characteristics:

Mihailo Pocek is a coach who knows to transform very successfuly his huge player's experiency into a process of creation of young players. Apart of being a great specialist to improve individually the work with point guards, he is perfectly prepared to teach his players all individual skils on others positions too. Having worked during his playing career with the best Yugoslavian coaches as Nikolic, Novosel, Zeravica, Ivkovic, Sakota, Pljakic, Stancic, Drvaric and Pavlicevic, Pocek managed to collect enormous knowledge and values of the Yugoslavian basketball school and is able to face all challenges in a creating players from the beginner's to the junior level. Beside, he improves permently and his tactical, technical and psychological preparation of a senior team is also on very high level. This man is definitely an excellent choice for each club that looks for a modern coach who is ready to create players and achieve very good results on the senior's competition level in the same time.

Language:
English
Status:
Signed with BC Koper (the 1° Slovenian League)

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