Bogdan Karaičić

Bogdan Karaičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Богдан Караичић; born 31 July 1984) is a Serbian professional basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for Partizan of the Serbian KLS, the Adriatic League and the EuroLeague, as well as a scout for the Serbian national team.

Bogdan Karaičić

Partizan Mozzart Bet
Position	Assistant coach
League	Basketball League of Serbia ABA League EuroLeague
Personal information
Born	(1984-07-31) 31 July 1984 (age 39) Titovo Užice, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Coaching career	2004–present
Career history
As coach:
2009–2010	Hørsholm 79ers (youth)
2010–2011	Hørsholm 79ers (assistant)
2011–2013	Hørsholm 79ers
2013–2016	Team FOG Næstved
2017–2020	Lokomotiv Kuban (assistant)
2019	Lokomotiv Kuban (interim)
2020	Crvena zvezda (assistant)
2021	Mega Basket (assistant)
2021–present	Partizan (assistant)

Coaching career

Bogdan Karaičić started his coaching career back in 2004 in Hungary where he worked as a youth coach in several clubs. He was one of the founder of Szentendrei Kosárlabda SE. During his youth coaching Karaičić won several medals in youth competitions. Karaičić joined the Danish club Hørsholm 79ers in 2009 and first served as a coach in their youth system. With U18 team Karaičić won 2nd place in Danish League and in international Scania Cup which is international basketball championship for all youth teams from Nordic countries. In the 2010–11 season, he was assistant coach of the club's men's team in the Danish League.^[1] In the 2011–12 season, he was named Hørsholm head coach. In his first season as a head coach Karaičić was leading the Hørsholm 79ers to the Danish Cup final where the team lost to Bakken Bears.^[2][3]

On 9 December 2013, he was named a head coach of Team FOG Næstved^[4] of the Danish League. Karaičić won two bronze medals with Team FOG Næstved before he decided to leave the club.^[5][6][7]

In August 2018, Karaičić was named as an assistant coach for Lokomotiv Kuban of the Russian VTB United League, where season before he worked as a scout. On 15 November 2019, Karaičić was appointed as an interim head coach, leading team in 5 season games.^[8][9][10]

On 10 June 2020, head coach Saša Obradović added Karaičić to the Crvena zvezda coaching staff as an assistant.^[11] Karaičić left the Zvezda following the departure of coach Obradović in December 2020.^[12]

In May 2021, Karaičić was named an assistant coach for Mega Soccerbet under Vlada Jovanović. He helped the team to reach Serbian Super League Finals where they lost to Crvena zvezda. Anyhow reaching the Finals was one of the historic result of Mega since it was first time in the club history that they played Serbian League finals.^[13]

In August 2021, he was named an assistant coach for Partizan under Željko Obradović.^[14]

National teams

Karaičić was an assistant coach of the U20 Denmark team at the 2011 FIBA U20 European Championship Division B in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[15] He was an assistant coach of the U18 Denmark team at the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship in Lithuania and Latvia, which got relegated to the Division B.^[16]

Karaičić was the head coach of the U18 Denmark team at the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B in Macedonia and 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B in Bulgaria.^[17][18] He finished his stint as the U18 Denmark head coach with an 8–8 record at two U18 Division B Championships.^[19]

In January 2020, coach Igor Kokoškov added Karaičić to the Serbia national team staff as a scout.^[20][21][22]

Career achievements

As assistant coach

• Russian Cup winner: 1 (with Lokomotiv Kuban: 2018)

• Adriatic League champion: 1 (with Partizan: 2022–23)

References

1. "Bogdan Karaicic stopper som head coach for 79ers". www.basketligaen.dk. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
2. "79ers på pokaljagt". sn.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
3. "Pokalvindere". basket.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
4. "Team FOG-træner stopper". sn.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
5. "Team FOG skifter træner". sn.dk/ (in Danish). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
6. "Team FOG-træner stopper". tv2east.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
7. "Team FOG-træner stopper". tv2east.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
8. "Promene u Lokomotivi: Vlada Jovanović uz Sašu Obradovića". basketballsphere.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
9. "Fra Team FOG Naestved til Lokomotiv Kuban". fullcourt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
10. "Lokomotiv Kuban part ways with head coach Luca Banchi". lokobasket.com. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
11. "OVO SU POMOĆNICI SAŠE OBRADOVIĆA: Novi trener Crvene zvezde doveo sa sobom renomirani stručni štab". kosarka.hotsport.rs. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
12. "Radonjić pravi stručni štab: Birač se vraća, Kosović ostaje, traže se glavni pomoćni i kondicioni trener". mozzartsport.com. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
13. "Bogdan Karaičić". bcmegabasket.netm. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
14. "Zvanično: Partizan objavio članove stručnog štaba". mozzartsport.com. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
15. "Denmark at 2011 FIBA U20 European Championship Division B". fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
16. "U18 Denmark at the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship". fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
17. "U18 Denmark at 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B". fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
18. "U18 Denmarka at 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B". fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
19. "Bogdan Karaicic at FIBA Europe". fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
20. "Bogdan Karaicic appointed Serbia assistant coach". lokobasket.com. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
21. "Kokoškov odredio sastav stručnog štaba". b92.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
22. "NIJE SAMO MAJK MELOUN! Srbija sprema PAKLEN TIM, Igor Kokoškov dobio još jednog čoveka za kvalifikacije!". sport.blic.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 28 January 2020.

External links

• Bogdan Karaicic on LinkedIn
• EuroLeague Profile
• Profile at eurobasket.com