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Željko Obradović

1960 - Today

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Želimir "Željko" Obradović (Serbian Cyrillic: Желимир "Жељко" Обрадовић, pronounced [ʒɛ̌limiːr ʒêːʎko obrǎːdoʋitɕ]; (born 9 March 1960) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach for Partizan of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. Widely regarded as the greatest coach in European basketball history and outside the NBA, Obradović has won a total of 64 club titles and honours over the course of his 30-year-long coaching career, including a record nine EuroLeague titles with five different clubs, along with 18 EuroLeague Final Four appearances. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Željko Obradović has received more than 1,055,308 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Željko Obradović is the 88th most popular coach (up from 94th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 106th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Serbian Coach.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Željko Obradović ranks 88 out of 471. Before him are José Villalonga, Gérard Houllier, Köbi Kuhn, Andreas Köpke, Raymond Goethals, and Cesare Prandelli. After him are Otto Barić, Javier Aguirre, Juande Ramos, Miljan Miljanić, Luis de la Fuente, and Edmund Conen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Željko Obradović ranks 69. Before him are Brian Cowen, Sarah Brightman, Hirohiko Araki, Barham Salih, Daryl Hannah, and José Maria Neves. After him are Fayez al-Sarraj, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, Gazebo, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Igor Belanov.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Željko Obradović ranks 95 out of 661. Before him are Koča Popović (1908), Radivoj Korać (1938), Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia (1819), Đorđe Balašević (1953), Mirjana Marković (1942), and Miloš Milutinović (1933). After him are Duško Popov (1912), Irinej, Serbian Patriarch (1930), Filip Vujanović (1954), Velibor Vasović (1939), Dušan Makavejev (1932), and Nikolaj Velimirović (1880).

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Among COACHES In Serbia

Among coaches born in Serbia, Željko Obradović ranks 3. Before him are Dragan Stojković (1965), and Dušan Ivković (1943). After him are Vladimir Petrović (1955), Slavoljub Muslin (1953), Ljubiša Broćić (1911), Josip Kuže (1952), Ratko Rudić (1948), Ivan Jovanović (1962), Radmilo Ivančević (1950), and Aleksandar Janković (1972).

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