Marina Maljković

Marina Maljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Маљковић; born September 26, 1981) is a Serbian professional basketball coach. She currently serves as a head coach for the Denso Iris of the Women's Japan Basketball League and for the Serbia women's national basketball team.

Marina Maljković
Marina Maljković in 2018
Shanghai Baoshan Dahua
PositionHead coach
LeagueWCBA
Personal information
Born (1981-09-26) September 26, 1981
Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Coaching career2004–present
Career history
As coach:
2004–2007Ušće Belgrade
2007–2009Hemofarm
2009–2013Partizan Belgrade
2011–2017Serbia
2013–2016Union Lyon Basket
2016–2018Galatasaray
2017–presentSerbia
2018–2020Shanghai Swordfish
2020–presentDenso Iris
Medals
Women's basketball
Head Coach for  Serbia
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
EuroBasket Women
2015 Hungary/Romania
2019 Latvia/Serbia

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 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]

In June 2018, she signed for the Shanghai Swordfish of the WCBA.[5]

Serbian 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.[6]

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.[7] 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.[8] In January 2017, she left the head coaching position.[9]

On 14 December 2017, Maljković has been appointed head coach of the Serbia national team for the second time.[10]

Career achievements

Club competitions

As head coach:

National team competitions

As head coach:

As an assistant coach:

Honours

References
  1. Maljković: Srbija se ne odbija Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Serbian)
  2. Trenerska biografija Marine Maljković Archived 2013-09-15 at the Wayback Machine (in Serbian)
  3. Maljković u Partizanu Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Serbian)
  4. Marina Maljkovic nouvelle coach du Lyon Basket Féminin (in French)
  5. "DALEKO OD KUĆE! Marina Maljković ima novi posao!". espreso.rs. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  6. Marina Maljković jedina žena među selektorima Archived 2013-06-25 at the Wayback Machine (in Serbian)
  7. "Serbia women win EuroBasket title, gain first Olympics berth". espn.go.com. Associated Press. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  8. "Veliko srce Maljkovićeve za žensku košarku". b92.net (in Serbian). 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  9. "Maljkovićeva: Razlog emotivno i fizičko pražnjenje". b92.net (in Serbian). 3 January 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  10. "VELIKI POVRATAK Marina Maljković selektor Srbije". sport.blic.rs. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  11. "Tomislav Nikolić povodom Dana državnosti odlikovao 84 ličnosti i institucije". Blic. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
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