Aleksandar Zarić | |
Position: | Sporting director |
Height M: | 1.97 |
Weight Kg: | 90 |
League: | ABA League Basketball League of Serbia |
Team: | FMP |
Nationality: | Serbian / Croatian |
Birth Date: | 20 March 1989 |
Birth Place: | Slavonski Brod, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Draft Year: | 2011 |
Career Position: | Shooting guard |
Career Number: | 4, 14 |
Career Start: | 2007 |
Career End: | 2016 |
Coach Start: | 2016 |
Years1: | 2009–2013 |
Team1: | Radnički FMP |
Years2: | 2013–2015 |
Team2: | OKK Beograd |
Years3: | 2015–2016 |
Team3: | Beovuk 72 |
Cyears1: | 2016–2017 |
Cteam1: | FMP (assistant) |
Cyears2: | 2017–2018 |
Cteam2: | Crvena zvezda (assistant) |
Cyears3: | 2018–2021 |
Cteam3: | FMP (assistant) |
Aleksandar Zarić (Serbian: Александар Зарић; born 20 March 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player who is the sporting director for FMP of the Basketball League of Serbia and the ABA League.
Zarić played for the FMP Železnik U18 team that lost from the Žalgiris U18 in the 2007 Junior Euroleague Final.[1]
Zarić played for Radnički FMP, OKK Beograd, Beovuk 72[2] of the Basketball League of Serbia. During his sting with OKK Beograd, he played 42 games over two seasons averaging 2.4 points per game.[3]
Zarić started his coaching career with FMP as a staff member of head coach Dušan Alimpijević.[4] In July 2017, Alimpijević was named as the head coach of Crvena zvezda, and Zarić moved to Crvena zvezda to be an assistant coach.[5] [6] In 2018, he joined back to the FMP staff. In 2021, FMP promoted him as their new sporting director.[7]