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Dragan Bajić
Bosnian basketball coach
Dragan Bajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Бајић; born 24 May 1973) is a Bosnian professional basketball coach and former player.[1]
Bajić coaching Igokea in 2022. | |
| Free agent | |
|---|---|
| Position | Head coach |
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1973-05-24) 24 May 1973 (age 50) Bludenz, Austria |
| Nationality | Bosnian |
| Listed height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Career information | |
| NBA draft | 1995: undrafted |
| Playing career | 1991–2003 |
| Position | Guard |
| Coaching career | 2003–present |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 00–2003 | Potkozarje / Igokea |
| As coach: | |
| 2007–2011 | Igokea (assistant) |
| 2008 | Igokea (interim) |
| 2011–2013 | Igokea |
| 2015 | Cherno More Port Varna |
| 2015–2018, 2019–2023 | Igokea |
Bajić was born in Bludenz, Austria, in a Bosnian Serb family.[citation needed]
Basketball
Bajić played for Igokea Aleksandrovac during his playing career. In the 2000–01 season, he won the Bosnian League with them.[2] He was a team member during the 2001–02 FIBA Saporta Cup and the 2002–03 FIBA Europe Regional Challenge Cup.[3]
Football
Bajić played professional football as forward for Sloga Trn of the Republika Srpska First League.[4][5]
In 2009, Bajić started his coaching career at Igokea as the first-team head coach. Later he was an assistant coach of Igokea to the head coach Drago Karalić.[6]
In 2014, Bajić became the head coach of Bosnia and Herzegovina national under-18 team. He led the team to 12th place at the 2014 Europe U-18 Championship.[7] From January to December 2015, he coached Cherno More Port Varna of the Bulgarian League.
At the end of December 2015, he came back to Igokea where he became the head coach. He made interesting results in ABA League and Bosnian League. He won three Bosnian League championships with Igokea so far. On 2 April 2018, Igokea fired Bajić after the team posted a 7–15 record at the end of the 2017–18 ABA season.[8]
On 30 October 2019, Igokea was hired Bajić as the new head coach.[9] On 9 June 2020, Bajić signed a three-year contract extension for Igokea.[10] He resigned on 14 January 2023, following a 5-in-a-row losses in the ABA League.[11]
National teams
In April 2021, the Basketball Federation of North Macedonia hired Bajić as the new head coach of the North Macedonia national team.[12] In July 2022, he parted ways with the national team.[13]
- As player
- Bosnian League champion: 1 (with Igokea: 2000–01)
- First League of Republika Srpska champion: 2 (with Igokea: 1999–00, 2000–01)
- As head coach
- Bosnian League champion: 4 (with Igokea: 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2021–22)
- Bosnian Cup winner: 6 (with Igokea: 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021–22)
- Bulgarian Cup winner: 1 (with Cherno More: 2015)
- Individual
- DRAGAN BAJIC basketball profile, eurobasket.com
- "Predstavljamo Dragana Bajića (košarka): S Igokeom do vrha". nezavisne.com. 25 November 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- "Dragan Bajic KK IGOKEA ALEKSANDROVACKK IGOKEA ALEKSANDROVAC". fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- "Dragan Bajić, trener o kojem se govori". sportdc.net. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- "Bajić trener godine". Archived from the original on 2017-02-23. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- Bajic coaching records at the FIBA Europe, FIBA Europe
- "Igokea smenila Bajića i odmah imenovala naslednika". sport.blic.rs. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- "Igokea appoint Dragan Bajić as new head coach and add Michael Green to the 2019/20 roster". aba-liga.com. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- "Dragan Bajić remains Igokea head coach". aba-liga.com. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- "Dragan Bajić podneo ostavku posle drame protiv Mege". mozzartsport.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- "Zvanično: Dragan Bajić preuzeo Makedoniju". mozzartsport.com. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- "Dragan Bajić nije više selektor Makedonije". mozzartsport.com. Retrieved 18 July 2022.