Radenko_Varagić
Radenko Varagić
Serbian-Dutch basketball coach
Radenko Varagić (born 23 September 1973) is a Serbian Dutch basketball coach. He currently serves as a head coach for BAL Weert of the BNXT League.
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| Position | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
| League | BNXT League | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1973-09-23) 23 September 1973 (age 50) Belgrade, Serbia | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Serbian / Dutch | ||||||||||||||
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| 2007 | Serbia Men U20 (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Serbia Women U20 | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–present | Netherlands Men U16 | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | BSW | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–present | BAL | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–present | Netherlands (interim head coach) | ||||||||||||||
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Born in Serbia, Varagić started his coaching career in 2015 with Ribnica and during 2017 to 2011, he worked for Kraljevo, Krusevac and Novi Sad.[1]
After a period in the youth academy of Red Star Belgrade, he moved to the Netherlands in 2014. On 13 September 2016, Varagić was appointed as head coach of BSW of the Dutch Basketball League (DBL).[2] After the 2016–17 season, the club went bankrupt and was replaced by BAL, as he took over as head coach of the club's new DBL team.[3]
In the 2020–21 season, he coached BAL to their first playoffs appearance after finishing in eighth place. On 2 May 2021, Varagić won the 2021 DBL Cup with his team after beating Yoast United in the final.[4]
On 6 October 2022, Varagic was appointed as interim head coach of the Netherlands national team after the firing of Maurizio Buscaglia.[1] He was already coaching Netherlands U-16 since 2019.
Varagić received the Dutch nationality in 2022.[1] He is married to Vesna and has three children.[5]
Dutch Basketball League
- "Radenko Varagic aangesteld als interim-bondscoach van de Nederlandse basketballers". Basketball.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- "Radenko Varagic nieuwe hoofdcoach BSW | 1Limburg | Nieuws en sport uit Limburg". 1limburg.nl. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
- "Eredivisie basketbal Nederland, basketballleague.nl". basketballleague.nl. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
- "Basketball Academie Limburg uit Weert verovert nationale beker". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- Derckx, Maartje (2021-12-01). "Een dag met: Radenko Varagic". Weert Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-06.