Baskonia dismisses Joan Peñarroya and hires Dusko Ivanovic as coach
He Baskonia ha ceased to Joan Penarroya as coachand has signed to Dusko Ivanovic to take charge of the team management until the end of this season, as reported by the Vitorian entity. The Montenegrin coach, in this way, begins his fourth stage at the head of the Alava team, while the Catalan coach has remained on the bench of the Basque squad during the 2022-23 season and at the beginning of this 2023-24 season. Ivanovic will be presented in the next few hoursand will lead his first training session as Baskonia’s new coach, the club has stated.
Dusko Ivanovic He coached Baskonia between 2000 and 2005, from 2008 to 2012, and from 2019 to 2021. He was dismissed in November 2021, at the beginning of the 2021-22 season, due to the poor results that the team was obtaining in the first weeks of that season. campaign, and was replaced in office by Neven Spahija.
In his career as coach of Baskonia, Ivanovic has won three League titles, in 2002, 2010 and 2020, another three Cup titles, in 2002, 2004 and 2009, and one Super Cup, in 2008. He is, in this way, the coach who has been champion the most times with the gasteiztarra club in the history of the entity.
Joan Penarroya, for his part, leaves the club after 16 months as coach. In the 2022-23 season, Baskonia finished in second place in the regular phase of the Endesa League, and lost in the quarterfinals of the play-offs against Joventut; In the Cup, the same team, Joventut, also eliminated Baskonia in the quarterfinals; and in the Euroleague, the Vitorian team was on the verge of the play-offs, qualifying in ninth place in the regular phase. With Peñarroya as coach, Baskonia had months in the 2022-23 season in which they showed spectacular play; The results added at the beginning of this 2023-24, however, have led to his dismissal. In total, he has led the team in 84 games, taking into account the Euroleague, the Endesa League and the Copa del Rey.
Source: Eitb
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