Strahinja Alagić

Strahinja Alagić
Personal information
Born	14 August 1924; Kozarac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died	10 October 2002 (aged 78); Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Career information
Playing career	1945–1952
Number	3, 9
Coaching career	1947–1985
Career history
As player:
1945	Yugoslav Army
1946	Partizan
1947–1952	Crvena zvezda
As coach:
1947–1951	Crvena zvezda Women (youth)
1952	OKK Beograd (assistant)
1953	OKK Beograd
1954	Yugoslavia Women
1957–1960	Crvena zvezda Women
1968	Yugoslavia Women
1974–1981	Crvena zvezda Women
1976	Crvena zvezda Men
00	Radnički Kragujevac Women
00	Sloboda Women
00	Radnički Kragujevac Men
Career highlights and awards
	As player: 6× Yugoslav League champion (1945, 1947–1951); As coach: 10× Yugoslav Women's League champion (1958–1960, 1973, 1976–1981); Women's European Champions Cup winner (1979); 4× Yugoslav Women's Cup winner (1974, 1976, 1979, 1981); Ivković Award for Lifetime Achievement (2003);
Women's basketball
Head coach of Yugoslavia
EuroBasket Women

Strahinja "Braca" Alagić (Serbian Cyrillic: Страхиња "Браца" Алагић; 14 August 1924 – 10 October 2002) was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He dedicated his coaching career is the most to women's basketball. With Crvena zvezda he won the FIBA EuroLeague Women in 1979.^[1]

Alagić was a member of the first managing board of the Crvena zvezda basketball club.^[2]

Playing career

Alagić started playing basketball after the end of World War II as a member of the Yugoslav Army basketball team. The first Yugoslav national championship held in Subotica in 1945 where his team won the title by beating the Serbia selection in the finals. Next year he moved to newly formed basketball club Partizan together with seven teammates such as Aleksandar Nikolić and Mirko Marjanović.^[3]

After spending a year in Partizan, Alagic moved to Crvena zvezda where he played the longest and where he achieved major successes. In the period from 1947 to 1951 he won five national championships with Nebojša Popović, Srđan Kalember and others.^[4] In July 1950, he won an international cup tournament with the Zvezda in Milan, Italy.^[5]

Coaching career

After ending his playing career, Alagić devoted himself to coaching. First of all Alagić worked as a coach of women's team, although he briefly coached the Crvena zvezda men's team. With women's team of Crvena zvezda he had a lot of success, especially in national competitions. The most important club's success in the history of women's basketball is winning the European Cup in 1979 with Crvena zvezda.

Alagić had a big success with the Yugoslavia women's national team, which in 1968 led to the first medal in Eurobasket.^[6]

Career achievements

Player

Yugoslav League champion: 6 (with Yugoslav Army: 1945 and with Crvena zvezda: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951).

Coach

Yugoslav Women's League champion: 10 (with Crvena zvezda: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81)
Yugoslav Women's Cup winner: 4 (with Crvena zvezda: 1973–74, 1975–76, 1978–79, 1980–81)
FIBA Women's European Champions Cup winner: 1 (with Crvena zvezda: 1978–79).

References

^ Košarkašice Zvezde pre 34 godine osvojile Kup šampiona
^ "Uprave KK Crvena zvezda". mojacrvenazvezda.net. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
^ "Strahinja Alagić – Braca" (PDF). okkbeograd.org.rs. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "Košarkaška prvenstva Jugoslavije (1945-91) – prvi deo". strategija.org. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
^ "Daba: Kad je Zvezda osvajala Milano…". kosmagazin.com. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
^ History of women's basketball in Yugoslavia

[1] Košarkašice Zvezde pre 34 godine osvojile Kup šampiona

[2] "Uprave KK Crvena zvezda". mojacrvenazvezda.net. Retrieved 27 June 2019.

[3] "Strahinja Alagić – Braca" (PDF). okkbeograd.org.rs. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

[4] "Košarkaška prvenstva Jugoslavije (1945-91) – prvi deo". strategija.org. Retrieved 11 January 2019.

[5] "Daba: Kad je Zvezda osvajala Milano…". kosmagazin.com. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[6] History of women's basketball in Yugoslavia

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