Marina Maljković

Marina Maljković

Marina Maljković in 2013.
Union Lyon
Position Head coach
League French League
Personal information
Born (1981-09-26) 26 September 1981
Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Serbian
Coaching career 2004–present
Career history
As coach:
2004–2007 Ušće Belgrade
2007–2009 Hemofarm
2009–2013 Partizan Belgrade
2011–present Serbia
2013–present Union Lyon
Medals
Women's basketball
Competitor for  Serbia
EuroBasket Women
2015 Budapest Team

Marina Maljković (born September 26, 1981) is a Serbian professional basketball coach, currently coaching Union Lyon Basket Féminin.

Club career

As a daughter of a famous Serbian coach, four-times Euroleague winner Božidar Maljković, Marina Maljković has been given an opportunity to start coaching career at the age of 16, when she became an assistant coach in Abeilles de Rueil, a French club she was playing for at the time.[1] In 2002, she graduated from the The College for Sports Coaches in Belgrade. In the same year, she became the head coach of the female section of KK Ušće, aged 21. She was the coach of the youth categories, and, at the same time, she managed to lead the senior team as the club advanced from the third to the first league of Serbia and Montenegro in just two years. In 2007, Maljković became the head coach of the female section of ŽKK Hemofarm, winning two league titles and two national cups in the following two years.[2] In 2009, she moved to ŽKK Partizan.[3] In the following four years, Partizan has won four national championships, two national cups and two Women's Adriatic League titles. Maljković has been the national champion of Serbia for six consecutive seasons, and has won six "Coach of the Year" awards. In September 2013, Maljković signed a two-year contract with Union Lyon Basket Féminin, a club competing in the Ligue Féminine de Basketball, the top women’s French professional basketball league.[4]

National team

Maljković was an assistant coach of the Serbia and Montenegro national Under-18 team, which has achieved fourth place at the 2004 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women, as well as Serbia and Montenegro national Under-19 team at the 2005 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women, which has won the silver medal after finals loss to the team USA.

In August 2011, Maljković has been appointed head coach of the Serbia women's national basketball team. At the EuroBasket Women 2013, Serbia national team managed to pass into the semifinals, which was the greatest national team success since the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. Aged 32, Maljković was the youngest, and the only female head coach at the championship.[5]

She led the team once again at the EuroBasket 2015 in Budapest where they won the gold medal, and qualified for the 2016 Olympics, first in the history for the Serbian team.[6] In the autumn of 2015, she extended her contract with the Basketball Federation of Serbia to be the team's selector over next four years; she also requested that one third of her salary be forwarded to all 12 clubs of the First Women's Basketball League of Serbia.[7]

Career achievements

Club competitions

As head coach:

National team competitions

As head coach:

As an assistant coach:

References

  1. ↑ Maljković: Srbija se ne odbija (Serbian)
  2. ↑ Trenerska biografija Marine Maljković (Serbian)
  3. ↑ Maljković u Partizanu (Serbian)
  4. ↑ Marina Maljkovic nouvelle coach du Lyon Basket Féminin (French)
  5. ↑ Marina Maljković jedina žena među selektorima (Serbian)
  6. ↑ "Serbia women win EuroBasket title, gain first Olympics berth". espn.go.com. Associated Press. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Veliko srce Maljkovićeve za žensku košarku". b92.net (in Serbian). 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.

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