| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 13, 1981 Vrbas, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian / Greek |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 250 lb (113 kg) |
| Career information | |
| NBA draft | 2003: undrafted |
| Playing career | 2000–2016 |
| Position | Power forward / center |
| Coaching career | 2015–present |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 2000–2005 | Aris Thessaloniki |
| 2005–2006 | Crvena zvezda |
| 2006–2007 | Dynamo Moscow |
| 2007 | Basket Napoli |
| 2007–2008 | Crvena zvezda |
| 2008–2009 | Panionios |
| 2009–2010 | Kavala |
| 2010–2011 | Enisey Krasnoyarsk |
| 2016 | Iraklis Thessaloniki |
| As coach: | |
| 2015–2019 | Iraklis Thessaloniki (assistant) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| |
Miroslav Raičević (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Раичевић; born July 13, 1981) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He also holds Greek citizenship, under the name of Miroslav Marinos-Raitsevits. He played as both a power forward and center.
Professional career
Raičević began his career playing with the youth teams of the Budućnost Peć. In 1998, he moved to the Greek League club Aris Thessaloniki, and he began his professional career there in the year 2000.
In 2003, he won the FIBA Europe Cup championship with Aris, and he scored the final decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004.
He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season.
In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back to Red Star, in November 2007.
He joined the Greek EuroLeague club Panionios for the 2008–09 season.[1] In September 2010, he signed with Enisey Krasnoyarsk in Russia,[2] but he was released in January 2011.[3]
After not playing professional basketball for 5 years, and having already started a career in coaching, Raičević resurrected his playing career, as he signed with the Greek A2 team Iraklis, as a player-coach.[4] He made his debut for Iraklis in an away win against Doukas.[5]
National team career
Raičević was an international squad member of the Serbia and Montenegro national team at the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
Coaching career
Raičević became an assistant coach with Iraklis, under the team's head coach, Vangelis Alexandris, in 2015.
See also
References
- ↑ Euroleague.net Panionios signs Raičević.
- ↑ Miroslav Raičević došao kod Karadžića u Rusiju Archived 2014-01-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Serbian)
- ↑ Райчевич покинул «Енисей» (in Russian)
- ↑ "Το παρασκήνιο του "colpo grosso" με τον Μίρο" (in Greek). Bluearena.gr. September 14, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
- ↑ Lefakis, Dimitris (29 October 2016). Πάτησε… παρκέ ο Ραΐσεβιτς (in Greek). Bluearena.gr. Retrieved 29 October 2016.