Vladimir "Vlada" Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир "Влада" Јовановић; born 15 March 1984) is a Serbian professional basketball coach who last served as the head coach for Crvena zvezda of the EuroLeague and the ABA League.
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Position | Head coach | |||||||||||||
League | ABA League EuroLeague | |||||||||||||
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Born | (1984-03-15) 15 March 1984 (age 38) Mladenovac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||
Coaching career | 2012–present | |||||||||||||
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2012–2016 | FMP (assistant) | |||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Crvena zvezda U-16 | |||||||||||||
2017–2020 | FMP | |||||||||||||
2021–2022 | Cibona | |||||||||||||
2022 | Crvena zvezda | |||||||||||||
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Jovanović was an assistant coach for the FMP as a part of coaching staff of coaches Milan Gurović and Slobodan Klipa from 2012 to 2016.[1][2] During the 2016–17 season, he worked with the Crvena zvezda under-16 team and won the national championship.[3]
On 27 July 2017, Jovanović returns to FMP as the head coach.[1][3][4] He made his Adriatic League debut as the head coach on 29 September in a 74–67 road loss to Cedevita.[5] Jovanović got his first taste of the NBA through Summer League coaching stint in the 2018 season with the Los Angeles Clippers.[6][7] In July 2020, he signed a two-year extension with FMP.[8] On 14 December 2020, Jovanović and FMP have parted ways on mutual consent, following a 2–6 record on the start of the 2020–21 ABA season.[9][10][2]
On 2 February 2021, Croatian team Cibona hired Jovanović as their new head coach.[11][12] He is the first Cibona's head coach from Serbia after Dragan Šakota in 1990.[13] On 8 January 2022, Cibona and Jovanović parted ways on mutual consent, following a 83–73 loss to Zabok. He finished his stint in Zagreb with a 39–25 record.[14][15][16]
On 8 July 2022, Crvena zvezda hired Jovanović as their new head coach.[17][18] On 13 November 2022, he parted ways with the club.[19][20] Under his guidance, Crvena zvezda recorded one win and six losses in the EuroLeague and had a 4–1 record in ABA play.[21]
Jovanović was an assistant coach for the Serbia U18 national team at the 2016 FIBA U18 European Championship in Turkey.
On 5 December 2019, Jovanović was named an assistant coach for the Serbia national team under Igor Kokoškov.[22] In September 2021, he left the National team as the assistant coach.
In December 2021, the Basketball Federation of Serbia named him the new head coach of the Serbia national under-20 team.[23] His team won a gold medal at the 2022 FIBA U20 European Championship Division B in Tbilisi, Georgia with an undefeated record at 7–0.[24][25]
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G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | W–L % | Win-loss % |
Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the team played during the season. He also coached in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.
Team | Year | G | W | L | W–L% | Result |
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Crvena zvezda | 2022–23 | 7 | 1 | 6 | .143 | Parted ways |
Career | 7 | 1 | 6 | .143 |
Jovanović and his wife Jelena has two children, a son Vasilije and daughter Lenka (born 2020).[26]