Strahinja Alagić
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| Nationality | Serbian | ||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 1945–1951 | ||||||||||||
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| 1945 | Yugoslav Army | ||||||||||||
| 1946 | Partizan | ||||||||||||
| 1947–1951 | Crvena zvezda | ||||||||||||
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| 1957–1960 | Crvena zvezda (women's team) | ||||||||||||
| 1973–1981 | Crvena zvezda (women's team) | ||||||||||||
| 1976 | Crvena zvezda (men's team) | ||||||||||||
| ?–? | Yugoslavia (women's team) | ||||||||||||
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Strahinja "Braca" Alagić (Serbian Cyrillic: Страхиња "Браца" Алагић), is a Serbian former professional basketball player and former coach. He dedicated his coaching career is the mostto women's basketball. With Crvena zvezda he won the FIBA EuroLeague Women in 1979.[1]
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 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.
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.
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.[2]
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: 11 (with Crvena zvezda: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81)
- Yugoslav Women's Cup winner: 5 (with Crvena zvezda: 1972–73, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1978–79, 1980–81)
- FIBA Women's European Champions Cup winner: 1 (with Crvena zvezda: 1978–79).