The “Barcelona” team represented by Latvian national team basketball player Rolands Šmits will not continue cooperation with the head coach Svetislav Pešiča, the club informs.
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The Spanish club had a contract with a Serbian specialist until the summer of 2021, but now the agreement has been terminated prematurely. Lithuanian Šarūns Jasikēvičs was mentioned as one of the descendants of Pešičs this week, who is in talks with the Turkish club Istanbul “Fenerbahce”.
70-year-old Pešičs returned to the helm of “Barcelona” last February, when the team was represented by another Latvian, Rodions Kurucs. Neither Kurucam that season nor Schmidt managed to gain much coach confidence in the next two.
In the second period, with Peščis behind the wheel, the Barcelona team won twice in the Spanish Cup, but lost the last two ACB finals, including in the title match with 67:69 on Tuesday, recognizing the superiority of Vitoria “Baskonia”. Last year, he was named the best coach of the ACB season.
The team represented by Schmidt stopped in the quarterfinals last year in the Euroleague and this season was one of the leading units when the tournament was stopped.
In the first term, the Catalan club led by Pešič became the Spanish champion in 2003 and 2004, triumphed in the Euroleague in 2003 and won the national cup in the same season. Pešičs has led the “Barcelona” team in 322 games, in which he won 235 victories.
His previous job before returning to Barcelona was the German club Bayern Munich. During his career, he has led teams in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Russia and Serbia, as well as being the co-pilot of the German national team and the Serbia and Montenegro national team.
At the club level, Pešičs has taken the teams to the German championship five times, as well as won the FIBA Korach Cup, the FIBA European Cup and the Yugoslav Championship. He led Serbia and Montenegro to victory in the European Championships in 2001 and the World Cup a year later. Under Pešič, the Yugoslav national team won the 1993 European Championships.
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