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F or Svetislav ‘Kari’ Pešić, the NBA was never an option. After spending five seasons on the bench of his Bosnia, this basketball ad- venturer headed to Germany in 1987. This footballing nation was hit by the Kari phe- nomenon and Germany won the European champi- onship in just six years. Pešić is now, once again, awaited by the challenge of the position where he once achieved his career best results. He has returned to the bench of our national team, which hasn’t won any gold medals since he left. The last two that we won were at the 2001 European Championship and the 2002 World Championship in Indianapolis, when our interlocutor inscribed his name in the pages of basketball history in capital letters. Ka- ri will lead our national team during November’s qual- ification window for the 2023 World Championship. Serbia will host Latvia on 25 th November, before head-
INTERVIEW: SVETISLAV PEŠIĆ, COACH We haven't won gold for a long time… Not since Kari The man who led us to the peak of the basketball world, at the 2001 European Championship and the World Championship in Indianapolis a year later, has returned to the helm of the Serbia national team
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