{"id":751078,"date":"2026-06-21T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751078\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:34:10","slug":"obradovic-returns-to-greek-basketball-club-panathinaikos-after-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751078\/","title":{"rendered":"Obradovic returns to Greek basketball club Panathinaikos after 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anadolu staff<\/p>\n<p>21 June 2026\u2022Update: 21 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>Greek basketball club Panathinaikos announced Sunday that it has reunited with Serbian coach Zeljko Obradovic on a three-year contract, bringing him back to the club after a 14-year absence.<\/p>\n<p>The Athens-based side confirmed the appointment on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Obradovic previously coached Panathinaikos from 1999 to 2012, a period during which the club won five EuroLeague titles along with numerous Greek league and cup trophies.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old is the most successful coach in EuroLeague history, having won the competition a record nine times with Partizan, Joventut, Real Madrid, Panathinaikos, and Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n<p>Following his departure from Panathinaikos in 2012, Obradovic spent seven seasons with Fenerbahce, guiding the Turkish club to its first EuroLeague title in 2017 and several domestic championships.<\/p>\n<p>He later returned to Serbian side Partizan in 2021, remaining in charge until 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement reunites Panathinaikos with the coach who led the club to five EuroLeague crowns, the most successful period in its history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anadolu staff 21 June 2026\u2022Update: 21 June 2026 Greek basketball club Panathinaikos announced Sunday that it has reunited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,296002,85],"class_list":["post-751078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sitekeywords","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751078","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=751078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}