Slobodan Subotić


Slobodan "Piksi" Subotić is a Slovenian professional basketball coach and former player. He last served as a head coach for Budućnost VOLI of the ABA League, the EuroCup and the Montenegrin League.
He has Greek citizenship, which he obtained to circumvent EU administrative restrictions while playing and coaching there. To be able to obtain Greek citizenship, he had to administratively change his name in the eyes of Greek law, and is thus known there as Slompontan "Lefteris" Soumpotits. In addition to having Slovenian and Greek citizenship, he also holds Bosnia and Herzegovina citizenship. At 2.02 m tall, he was a talented swingman, with incredible shooting ability.

Playing career

Subotić helped the Greek club Aris to qualify for the EuroLeague's Final Four in three consecutive years (1988, 1989, and 1990. With Aris, he was a 5 time Greek League champion, in the years 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991, and also a 5 time Greek Cup winner, in the years 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1992.
Subotić then followed-up a successful playing career, by moving on to work as a basketball coach.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Subotić went into coaching. So far, some of the clubs that he has been the head coach of include: Greek clubs Iraklis, AEK, Aris, Panathnaikos, Panionios, PAOK and Olympiacos, the Croatian club Split, and Al Riyadi, of the Lebanese Basketball League.
As the head coach, he won the Greek League championship twice, in 1998 and 1999, the Greek Cup in 2002,
the FIBA Korać Cup in 1997, and the Lebanese League championship in 2014 and 2015. He extended his contract with Al Riyadi for three more years in 2015.
He was also an assistant coach with the senior men's Slovenia national team in 1999, as well as the head coach of Slovenia, from 2001 to 2003, coaching them at EuroBasket 2003. In 2012 he became the general manager of the Slovenian club, Union Olimpija.
On 18 June 2017, Subotić was named the head coach of the Croatian club Cibona, which he left on 11 November 2017, parting ways with the club.

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