Dragan Šakota

Dragan Šakota
AEK
Position	General Manager
League	Greek Basket League
Personal information
Born	(1952-06-16) June 16, 1952 Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian / Greek
Listed height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Career information
Playing career	1972–1983
Coaching career	1983–present
Career history
As player:
1972–1983	IMT
As coach:
1983–1988	IMT
1988–1989	Zadar
1989–1990	Yugoslavia (assistant)
1989–1990	Cibona
1990–1991	PAOK
1991–1992	Apollon Patras
1993–1994	Iraklis
1994–1995	PAOK
1995–1997	Peristeri
1998–2000	Iraklis
1999	Yugoslavia (assistant)
2000–2001	Aris
2001–2003	AEK Athens
2003–2004	Olympiacos
2004–2005	Serbia and Montenegro (assistant)
2005–2007	Crvena zvezda
2006	Serbia and Montenegro
2008	Fortitudo Bologna
2010–2011	Trabzonspor
2011–2012	Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi
2014–2016	AEK Athens
2016–present	AEK Athens (General Manager)
Career highlights and awards
As head coach: Yugoslav Cup champion (1987) Saporta Cup champion (1991) Greek League champion (2002) Serbian Cup champion (2006)

Dragan Šakota (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Шакота, Greek: Ντράγκαν Σάκοτα; born June 16, 1952 in Belgrade) is a Serbian-Greek^[1] professional basketball coach. His son, Dušan Šakota, is also a professional basketball player, while his other son, Miloš Šakota, is a retired professional basketball player, and a current professional basketball coach.

Club coaching career

Šakota has coached many top European clubs (mostly Greek) such as: Aris, Iraklis, Peristeri, Apollon, PAOK, AEK Athens, Red Star Belgrade, Zadar, and Cibona, among others.^[2] Šakota took over at Fortitudo Bologna for Andrea Mazzone, who got fired due to poor results in early January 2008, mid-season 2007–08.^[3] At the time, the club had a 7-10 record in their national domestic league, and a 3-4 record in the Eurocup.

Šakota finished the 2007–08 season at the club, and also started the 2008–09 season there. In mid December 2008, he got fired and was replaced by Cesare Pancotto.^[4] On November 16, 2011, Šakota became the new head coach of the Turkish Basketball League club Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi, replacing Serdar Apaydın, but after a few months he was fired again.

In 2014, he returned to AEK Athens.^[5]

Yugoslav and Serbian and Montenegro national teams

Šakota was an assistant coach of the Yugoslav national basketball team from 1989 to 1990, working as an assistant coach with Yugoslavia at the 1990 FIBA World Championship. He was then an assistant coach of the FR Yugoslav national basketball team at the EuroBasket 1999. He was also an assistant coach of the Serbia and Montenegro national basketball team from 2004 to 2005, working as an assistant at both the 2004 Summer Olympic Games and the EuroBasket 2005.

In 2006, Šakota was the head coach of the Serbia and Montenegro national basketball team at the 2006 FIBA World Championship. Serbia and Montenegro finished the World Championship in 11th place, which was the lowest place finish ever for the Serbian national team at the tournament.^[6]^[7]

References

↑ SAKOTA, DRAGAN BORN: 16 JUNE, 1952 NATIONALITY: GREECE
↑ Šakota bio while with AEK.
↑ Dragan Šakota preuzeo Fortitudo.;Blic, 2 January 2008
↑ Fortitudo signs Cesare Pancotto, replaces Dragan Sakota.;EuroCupBasketball, 10 December 2008
↑ Dragan Sakota returns to AEK BC.
↑ Šakota prihvatio mjesto selektora
↑ SERBIA & MONTENEGRO's ROSTER.

External links

PAOK 1990–91 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup Winners

Prelević Barlow Korfas Fasoulas Boudouris Stavropoulos Makaras Papachronis Ioannou Mamatsiolas Tsakiris Valavanidis Coach: Šakota

Serbia and Montenegro squad – 2006 FIBA World Championship – 11th place

4 Popović 5 Jorović 6 Avdalović 7 Raičević 8 Rakočević 9 Ilić 10 Tripković 11 Miličić 12 Nikolić 13 Marinović 14 Aškrabić 15 Perović Coach: Šakota

KK Crvena Zvezda head coaches

Nebojša Popović (1946–1955)
Aleksandar Gec (1956–1959)
Milan Bjegojević (1959–1970)
Đorđe Andrijašević (1970–1971)
Bratislav Đorđević (1971–1973)
Aleksandar Nikolić (1973–1974)
Nemanja Đurić (1974–1976)
Strahinja Alagić # (1976)
Bratislav Đorđević (1976–1979)
Dragiša Vučinić (1979)
Mile Protić (1979)
Ranko Žeravica (1980–1986)
Vlade Đurović (1986–1988)
Zoran Slavnić (1988–1991)
Duško Vujošević (1991–1992)
Vladislav Lučić (1992–1994)
Veselin Matić (1994)
Zoran Slavnić (1994–1995)
Mihailo Uvalin (1995)
Borislav Džaković (1995–1996)
Ranko Žeravica (1996–1997)
Mihailo Pavićević # (1997)
Tom Ludwig (1997)
Vladislav Lučić (1997–1998)
Mihailo Pavićević # (1998)
Borislav Džaković (1998)
Jovica Antonić (1998–1999)
Momir Milatović # (1999)
Vladislav Lučić (1999–2000)
Stevan Karadžić (2000–2001)
Miroslav Nikolić (2001)
Zoran Krečković (2001–2002)
Miroslav Nikolić (2002)
Aleksandar Trifunović (2002–2003)
Zmago Sagadin (2003–2004)
Aleksandar Trifunović (2004–2005)
Dragan Šakota (2005–2007)
Stevan Karadžić (2007–2008)
Milan Škobalj # (2008)
Svetislav Pešić (2008–2009)
Aco Petrović (2009)
Aleksandar Trifunović (2009–2010)
Mihailo Uvalin (2010–2011)
Aleksandar Nikitović (2011)
Svetislav Pešić (2011–2012)
Milivoje Lazić (2012)
Vlada Vukoičić (2012–2013)
Dejan Radonjić (2013–present)

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

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