Damir Mulaomerović

Damir Mulaomerović (born 19 September 1974) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach for Sloboda Tuzla of the ABA League and the Bosnian League. Mulaomerović is also currently serving as an assistant coach of the Croatian national team.

Damir Mulaomerović
Mulaomerović with PAOK in 2004
Sloboda Tuzla
PositionHead coach
LeagueABA League Second Division
Bosnian League
Personal information
Born (1974-09-19) 19 September 1974
Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalityCroatian
Listed height6 ft 4.75 in (1.95 m)
Listed weight215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
Playing career1990–2012
PositionPoint guard
Coaching career2013–present
Career history
As player:
1990–1994Sloboda Dita
1994–1998Cibona
1998–1999Fortitudo Bologna
1999–2001Efes Pilsen
2001–2002Panathinaikos
2002Snaidero Udine
2002–2003Real Madrid
2003–2005PAOK
2005–2006Panellinios
2006–2007Olympiacos
2007Bruesa GBC
2007–2008Cibona
2008–2009PAOK
2009–2012Zagreb
As coach:
2013–2015Sloboda Tuzla
2015–2017Cibona
2016Bosnia and Herzegovina
2018–2019Kosovo
2018–2019Z-Mobile Prishtina
2019–presentSloboda Tuzla
Career highlights and awards
As player

As head coach

Professional career

Mulaomerović started his career with Sloboda Dita in 1990. Not too long after the start of the Bosnian War, he fled to Zagreb and where he joined Cibona Zagreb. Mulaomerović played there until the end of the 1997–1998 season. He left Cibona, to join Fortitudo Bologna. He also played with Real Madrid.

In Greece, he left a big mark. He won the EuroLeague championship with Panathinaikos, in 2001–02. While he played with PAOK and Panellinios, he was one of the Greek League's leading assist and point scoring players. At the start of the 2006–2007 season, he had been signed by Olympiacos, in order to fill the void created in the team by Arvydas Macijauskas' start of the season severe injury. But in Olympiacos, he did not get along with head coach Pini Gershon, and before the end of season, he got an early termination of his contract.

After Olympiacos, he was signed by Bruesa GBC, on 22 January 2007, but because of an injury, he did not play as expected. During the summer of 2007, he was in serious contract discussions with Cedevita Zagreb, from Croatia, but after Cibona approached him, he did not have to think twice about which team he was to join. He signed a 1-year contract with his former team, Cibona.[1]

After 9 years, he returned to Cibona Zagreb. Saying that he was, "excited about his return, and that it had always been a privilege and commitment to play for Cibona". He was brought to them by the special insistence of the new Cibona head coach, former Croatian basketball player, Josip "Joke" Vranković. He expressed his desire to finish his career with Cibona.[2]

In January 2009, he joined another basketball club from the Croatian capital, KK Zagreb. Although being a veteran, he was a key player in Zagreb's first ever Croatian League championship title, won in 2011. The next season, as Zagreb was eliminated on a title defending path in May 2012, Mulaomerović announced his retirement.

National team career

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Being born in the Bosnian city of Tuzla, which he left as a refugee at the outbreak of the Bosnian War, Mulaomerović wanted to represent the newly formed Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Croatia

The Bosnian team failed to see potential in Mulaomerović, so he accepted the call from Petar Skansi, then senior Croatia's head coach. Mulaomerović represented Croatia at the 1996 Summer Olympics, EuroBasket 1997, EuroBasket 1999, EuroBasket 2001 and EuroBasket 2003.

Coaching career

Mulaomerović started his basketball coaching career soon after his retirement from playing professional basketball, taking over as the head coach his hometown club, Sloboda Tuzla, in 2013.

On 7 December 2015, Mulaomerović was appointed the head coach for Cibona.[3] In June 2017, after reaching the finals of the Croatian League and the National Cup, which Cibona losing both to Cedevita, he parted ways with the club.[4]

In 2016, the Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina named Mulaomerović as the new head coach of the senior Bosnia and Herzegovina national team but Bosnia did not qualify to EuroBasket 2017 finals, so Mulaomerović was sacked.[5]

In August 2018, Mulaomerović took over the senior Kosovo men's national team.[6] Two months later, he became the head coach for KB Prishtina, the most prominent club playing in the Kosovo Basketball Superleague.[7]

On 29 November 2019, he moved back to Sloboda Tuzla as the head coach.[8] In February 2020, shortly before the start of 2022 EuroBasket qualifying tournament, Mulaomerović joined Croatia's coaching staff under the head coach Veljko Mršić.[9]

References
  1. http://www.sportnet.hr/index.aspx?page=news&id=350077 Archived 11 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Croatian)
  2. http://www.tportal.hr/sport/kosarka/fset.html Archived 9 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Croatian)
  3. "Slaven Rimac više nije trener Cibone, klupu preuzeo Damir Mulaomerović". www.cibona.com. Cibona. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  4. Cibona parted ways with Mulaomerović
  5. Mulaomerović više nije selektor košarkaške reprezentacije
  6. "Damir Mulaomerović novi je izbornik reprezentacije Kosova; evo koji Hrvat ih je odbio" [Damir Mulaomerović is the new head coach of the Kosov national team; here's which Croat rejected their offer]. tportal.hr (in Croatian). 14 August 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  7. "Damir Mulaomerović je Katica za sve: Uz klupu Kosova, ove sezone vodit će i momčad Prištine". basketball.hr (in Croatian). 4 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  8. "Damir Mulaomerović preuzima Slobodu". basketball.hr (in Croatian). 28 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  9. "Reprezentacija odradila prvi trening". www.hks-cbf.hr (in Croatian). 17 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
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