{"id":141199,"date":"2025-09-13T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141199\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:47:11","slug":"svetislav-pesic-to-step-down-from-serbian-national-team-time-has-come-to-find-a-new-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141199\/","title":{"rendered":"Svetislav Pe\u0161i\u0107 to step down from Serbian national team: \u201cTime has come to find a new coach\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Serbia entered EuroBasket 2025 as perhaps the biggest favorite for gold, led by three-time NBA MVP Nikola Joki\u0107. However, after a series of injuries, they fell to Finland in the Round of 16 and exited the tournament in Riga far earlier than expected.<\/p>\n

Upon returning home, head coach Pe\u0161i\u0107 initially said that he did not plan to resign. There were also reports that the Federation was considering parting ways, which were denied. Eventually, though, Pe\u0161i\u0107 decided that it was time to step aside.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a privilege to be the head coach of the Serbian national team, to train and lead the best Serbian basketball players. Taking responsibility and making decisions when you lead the Serbian national team is a huge challenge. I always tried to ensure that professionalism and expertise prevailed on the path to success. In the future, I want to continue to make my professionalism, knowledge, and dedication available to president \u010covi\u0107 and to our basketball as a whole. However, the time has come to find a new coach who will be able to continue what we started in the previous period,\u201d Pe\u0161i\u0107 told Politika<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whoever succeeds him, Pe\u0161i\u0107 says he will be there to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI promised [president] \u010covi\u0107 that I would do absolutely everything to fulfill the role he entrusted me with in the selection of the new head coach, and I will carry that out, as I always have \u2014 professionally, competently, and responsibly. I will give the new coach my full support, assistance, and all of my experience from the past period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Serbia entered EuroBasket 2025 as perhaps the biggest favorite for gold, led by three-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-141199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}