Veselin Matić

Veselin Matić

Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Biographical details
Born	July 21, 1960 Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Playing career
1980–1988	OKK Belgrade
Position(s)	Point guard, shooting guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988–1990	OKK Belgrade
1989–1990	Yugoslavia
1990–1993	Telekom Karlsruhe
1993–1994	KK Crvena zvezda (assistant)
1994–1996	KK Partizan (assistant)
1997–1998	USC Freiburg
1998–2000	Polonia Warbud Warszawa
2000–2001	Köln 99ers
2001–2005	Rhein Energie Cologne
2005–2006	Poland
2006–2008	BC Kalev/Cramo
2008–2009	Sagesse
2009–2012	Iran
2015–	Lebanon
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3 National Championship (1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96) 1 Yugoslav cup (1994-95) 2 Estonian cup (2006-07, 2007-08) 2 EuroBasket: (1997, 2001) 2 FIBA World Championship (1998, 2002) 1 FIBA Asia Championship (2009) 5 FIBA Asia Championship (2015)
Awards
Best Manager in Serbia (1994, 1995, 1996) FIBA Winning Manager (1998, 2002) FIBA Asia Winning Manager (2009)

Veselin Matic (born 21 July 1960 in Belgrade) is a Serbian professional basketball coach. He is currently the head coach of Lebanon national basketball team. He was the head coach of the Iranian national team from 2009 to 2012.^[1]

Highlights career

Club highlights

• National champion (1993–94) (Crvena zvezda)
• National champion (1994–95) (Partizan)
• National champion (1995–96) (Partizan)
• Winner of Yugoslav cup (1994–95) (Partizan)
• Moved team from 2nd division to 1st division(1998-00)
• Moved team from 3rd division to 1st division(2000–01)
• Winner of Estonian cup (2006–07) (BC Kalev)
• Winner of Estonian cup (2007–08) (BC Kalev)

National team highlights

• European under-16 Champion (1997)
• World Champion (1998, Scout)
• European Champion (2001, Assistant)
• World Champion (2002, Assistant)
• Asian Champion (2009)
• West Asian Champion (2015)
• Qualification Pre Olympic Qualifying Tournament Tournament(2015)

References

1. Matic excited by Istanbul cup