Dragan Raca
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Dragan Raca is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former coach of the Lebanon national basketball team
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Raca has spent his professional career by playing and coaching different Yugoslav professional teams and continued in Cyprus and Lebanon. This includes stints with Cypriot sides AEL Limasol and APOEL Nicosia and Lebanese side Hekmeh
. He has also coached the Lebanon national basketball team
at both the FIBA Asia Championship 2007
and FIBA Asia Championship 2009
, leading the team to a silver medal in 2007. Despite the team's disappointing fourth place finish in 2009, they were later awarded a wild card to the 2010 FIBA World Championship
.
Lebanon national basketball team
The Lebanon national basketball team is the basketball team representing Lebanon in international competitions.-History:The first time basketball was ever played in Lebanon was in the mid-1920s in the American University of Beirut...
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Raca has spent his professional career by playing and coaching different Yugoslav professional teams and continued in Cyprus and Lebanon. This includes stints with Cypriot sides AEL Limasol and APOEL Nicosia and Lebanese side Hekmeh
Hekmeh
Hekmeh SC, or Hekmeh Sports Club also known by its French synonym Sagesse or Club Sagesse or Club Sportif Sagesse is a multi-sports club in Lebanon....
. He has also coached the Lebanon national basketball team
Lebanon national basketball team
The Lebanon national basketball team is the basketball team representing Lebanon in international competitions.-History:The first time basketball was ever played in Lebanon was in the mid-1920s in the American University of Beirut...
at both the FIBA Asia Championship 2007
FIBA Asia Championship 2007
The 2007 FIBA Asia Championship for Men is the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the men's basketball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. The tournament was held in Tokushima, Japan from July 28 to August 5, 2007....
and FIBA Asia Championship 2009
FIBA Asia Championship 2009
The 2009 FIBA Asia Championship for Men was the biennial Asian continental championship and also served as the FIBA Asia qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The tournament was held from August 6 to 16, 2009 in Tianjin, China....
, leading the team to a silver medal in 2007. Despite the team's disappointing fourth place finish in 2009, they were later awarded a wild card to the 2010 FIBA World Championship
2010 FIBA World Championship
The 2010 FIBA World Championship, hosted by Turkey, was the international basketball competition contested by the men's national teams. The tournament ran from August 28 to September 12, 2010. It was co-organized by the International Basketball Federation , Turkish Basketball Federation and the...
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