Damir Mulaomerović

Damir Mulaomerović
Mulaomerović with PAOK in 2004
KB Prishtina
Position Head coach
League Kosovo Basketball Superleague
FIBA Europe Cup
Personal information
Born (1974-09-19) 19 September 1974
Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Bosnian / Croatian
Listed height 6 ft 4.75 in (1.95 m)
Listed weight 215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
Playing career 1990–2012
Position Point guard
Coaching career 2013–present
Career history
As player:
1990–1994 Sloboda Dita
1994–1998 Cibona
1998–1999 Fortitudo Bologna
1999–2001 Efes Pilsen
2001–2002 Panathinaikos
2002 Snaidero Udine
2002–2003 Real Madrid
2003–2005 PAOK
2005–2006 Panellinios
2006–2007 Olympiacos
2007 Bruesa GBC
2007–2008 Cibona
2008–2009 PAOK
2009–2012 Zagreb
As coach:
2013–2015 Sloboda Tuzla
2015–2017 Cibona
2016 Bosnia and Herzegovina
2018–present Kosovo
2018–present Prishtina
Career highlights and awards

As player:

Damir Mulaomerović (born 19 September 1974) is a Bosnian-born naturalized Croatian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as a head coach for Prishtina of the Kosovo Superleague as well as the Kosovo national basketball team.

Professional career

Mulaomerović started his career with Sloboda Dita in 1990. Not too long after the start of the Bosnian War, he fled to Zagreb and where he joined Cibona Zagreb. Mulaomerović played there until the end of the 1997–1998 season. He left Cibona, to join Fortitudo Bologna. He also played with Real Madrid.

In Greece, he left a big mark. He won the EuroLeague championship with Panathinaikos, in 2001–02. While he played with PAOK and Panellinios, he was one of the Greek League's leading assist and point scoring players. At the start of the 2006–2007 season, he had been signed by Olympiacos, in order to fill the void created in the team by Arvydas Macijauskas' start of the season severe injury. But in Olympiacos, he did not get along with head coach Pini Gershon, and before the end of season, he got an early termination of his contract.

After Olympiacos, he was signed by Bruesa GBC, on 22 January 2007, but because of an injury, he did not play as expected. During the summer of 2007, he was in serious contract discussions with Cedevita Zagreb, from Croatia, but after Cibona approached him, he did not have to think twice about which team he was to join. He signed a 1-year contract with his former team, Cibona.[1]

After 9 years, he returned to Cibona Zagreb. Saying that he was, "excited about his return, and that it had always been a privilege and commitment to play for Cibona". He was brought to them by the special insistence of the new Cibona head coach, former Croatian basketball player, Josip "Joke" Vranković. He expressed his desire to finish his career with Cibona.[2]

In January 2009, he joined another basketball club from the Croatian capitol, KK Zagreb. Although being a veteran, he was a key player in Zagreb's first ever Croatian League championship title, won in 2011. The next season, as Zagreb was eliminated on a title defending path in May 2012, Mulaomerović announced his retirement.

International career

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Being born in the Bosnian city of Tuzla, which he left as a refugee at the outbreak of the Bosnian War, Mulaomerović wanted to represent the newly formed Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team.

Croatia

The Bosnian team failed to see potential in Mulaomerović, so he accepted the call from Petar Skansi, the senior Croatian national basketball team's head coach. Mulaomerović represented Croatia at the 1996 Summer Olympics, EuroBasket 1997, EuroBasket 1999, EuroBasket 2001, and EuroBasket 2003.

Coaching career

Mulaomerović started his coaching career soon after his retirement from playing basketball. He took over as head coach of his hometown club, Sloboda Tuzla. In December 2015, Mulaomerović was appointed the head coach of his former club, Cibona Zagreb. In June 2017, after reaching the finals of the Croatian League and Cup and losing both to Cedevita, he left Cibona.[3]

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In 2016, the Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina named Mulaomerović the new head coach of the senior Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team. But, Bosnia didn't qualified to the EuroBasket 2017, and Mulaomerović was sacked.[4]

Kosovo

In August 2018 he took over the Kosovo national basketball team.[5] Two months later he became head coach of KB Prishtina, the most prominent club playing in the Kosovo Basketball Superleague.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sportnet.hr/index.aspx?page=news&id=350077 (in Croatian)
  2. ↑ http://www.tportal.hr/sport/kosarka/fset.html (in Croatian)
  3. ↑ Cibona parted ways with Mulaomerović.
  4. ↑ Mulaomerović više nije selektor košarkaške reprezentacije
  5. ↑ "Damir Mulaomerović novi je izbornik reprezentacije Kosova; evo koji Hrvat ih je odbio" [Damir Mulaomerović is the new head coach of the Kosov national team; here's which Croat rejected their offer]. tportal.hr (in Croatian). August 14, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Damir Mulaomerović je Katica za sve: Uz klupu Kosova, ove sezone vodit će i momčad Prištine". basketball.hr (in Croatian). October 4, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
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