KK Crvena zvezda (youth)

Crvena zvezda
NicknameCrveno-beli (The Red-Whites)
Zvezda (The Star)
LeaguesU19 ABA Championship
First Regional League
LocationBelgrade, Serbia
Team colorsRed, white
   
Main sponsorMobile Telephony of Serbia
PresidentNebojša Čović
Team managerJovica Antonić
Head coachBranko Jorović (U19)
Miloš Šakota (U16)
Championships1 EuroLeague NGT
Websitekkcrvenazvezda.rs

KK Crvena zvezda is a men's professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia, which has youth system teams, cadets (under-16) and juniors (under-18 and under-19). The U18 and U19 teams play in the RODA Junior Basketball League of Serbia[1] and the Junior Adriatic League.[2] They have won a Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament. The U16 team plays in the Triglav Cadet Basketball League of Serbia.

Some of the most notable home-grown players of Crvena zvezda are Zoran Slavnić, a member of the 50 greatest players in the history of FIBA international basketball, as selected in 1991, then Igor Rakočević – the three-time EuroLeague Top Scorer, Peja Stojaković – the NBA All-Star player and FIBA EuroBasket MVP, as well as Vladimir Cvetković and Dragan Kapičić.

Further notable home-grown players include Goran Rakočević, Ivan Sarjanović, Žarko Koprivica, Slobodan Nikolić, Predrag Bogosavljev, Boban Janković, Mirko Milićević, Branislav Prelević, Aleksandar Trifunović, Nebojša Ilić, Saša Obradović, Rastko Cvetković, Nikola Jestratijević, Miloš Vujanić, Vladimir Radmanović, Milutin Aleksić, Milko Bjelica, Luka Bogdanović, Tadija Dragićević, Nemanja Nedović, Marko Gudurić, and Ognjen Dobrić.

Aleksandar Đorđević (one of 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors), Dejan Koturović, Marko Jarić and Vladimir Micov were members of the club's youth system who have never appeared in a regular season or playoff game for the first team.

  1. ^ "RODA Juniorska liga Srbije". takmicenje.kss.rs. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Junior ABA League". aba-liga.com. Retrieved 20 January 2018.