Saša Kosović


Saša Kosović is a Bosnian-Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently works as an assistant coach for Crvena zvezda of the Basketball League of Serbia, the ABA League, and the EuroLeague.

Early life

Kosović was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia to a Bosnian-Serb family. He started to train basketball at age 7 for his hometown team Bosna. He was born in the same year that Bosna won the European Champions Cup. He trained there until 1992 when he had to move because of the war.
He played for Mladost from Gacko and Leotar from Trebinje. After two seasons in the League of the Republika Srpska, he decided to retire. In 1999, he moved to Belgrade to start his professional education. Kosović graduated physical education at the University of Belgrade in 2006. In 2014, he graduated program for the basketball coach.

Coaching career

Kosović began his coaching career in 2002. In the first years, he worked for Belgrade-based teams; Cerak and Beoas. In 2007, he went back to Trebinje where he became an assistant coach for his former team Leotar of the Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After three seasons he returns to Belgrade. During the 2010–11 season he was an assistant coach for the FMP of the Basketball League of Serbia. The FMP's head coaches were Boško Đokić and Aleksandar Petrović.
Since 2005, he has been a trainer at the Bodiroga Basketball Camp in Trebinje.

Crvena zvezda

On the start of the 2011–12 season Crvena zvezda has added Kosović to their coaching staff as an assistant coach. Since 2011, he has been a part of coaching staffs of the Zvezda head coaches Svetislav Pešić, Milivoje Lazić, Vlada Vukoičić, Dejan Radonjić and Dušan Alimpijević. He stayed in the same position after head coach Milan Tomić arrived in 2018, as well as after head coach Dušan Šakota arrived in 2019.

Career achievements

;As assistant coach