Official: PAOK announced Zdovc

It was well known, it became official …

For his cooperation PAOK with Yuri Zdovcthe reason, as the “biceps of the North” announced today (01/07) the hiring of the Slovenian technician, who signed one -year contract and is his replacement Massimo Kanchelieriwho took over the trendy.

In detail the relevant announcement:

“PAOK Mateco announces that Jure Zdovc is taking over the technical leadership of our team for the 2025-26 season. We welcome to the big PAOK family, a flagship figure of European basketball and wish him every success in the difficult and very important work he has to do.

Jurij “Jure” Zdovc was born on December 13, 1966 and has deleted a special route, with great successes, as confirmed by most of the 20 titles he has won as an athlete and coach.

His transition to coaching came almost normally, for an athlete with a high basketball IQ. Starting his career as a coach in the mid -2000s, ZDOVC worked consistently in top clubs, but also in the Slovenian national team, building a reputation as a harsh and just coach, with a particular emphasis on defense and discipline.

He began his coaching career in 2003, as an assistant coach in Krka, to pursue a twenty years, where he worked in 13 teams, in 8 different countries. In two different times he was a coach in the Slovenian national team, which led to 4th place in Eurobasket in 2009, but also to participation in the Mundobasket (2014) and Eurobasket (2015).

In summary Jure Zdovc’s coaching career…

2003-04: Split (Croatian Cup 2004)

2004: Geoplin Slovan

2005-06: Hercules

2007-08: Bosna (Bosnian Champion 2008)

2008-

2008-09, 2014-16: National Slovenia

2011-13: Spartak St.petersburg (coach of the year in 2012 at Eurocup)

2013-15: Gaziantep

2015-17: AEK

2017-18: Cedevita (winner of the Adriatic League-2017 Super Cup, Croatian Champion and Cup-2018)

2019-20: Petrol Olimpija

2020-21: Metropolitans 92

2021-22: Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania Cups 2022)

2023-24: Bursaspor

The great career of athlete Jure Zdovc

The first pages in Jure Zdovc’s rich biography began to be written in the 1980s in his first steps in Olimpija Ljubljana, in the legendary team of his homeland. His achievements were impressive, especially in the next decade, when he made his name known throughout Europe.

European champion in 1993 with Limoges in Athens Final, two gold medals in Eurobasket (1989 in Zagreb and 1991 in Rome) with the Yugoslav national team, as well as a 1990 World Champion in Argentina. These are the most important of the 14 titles he won during his almost twenty -year career, where he fought in a row…

1984-91, 1998-00 & 2001-02: Olimpija Ljubljana (Slovenian Champion: 1999, 2002), Slovenia Cup (1999, 2000, 2002), Adriatic League Champion (2002)

1991-92: Knorr Bologna

1992-93: Limoges (European Champion 1993, France Champion 1993)

1993-96: Hercules

1997: Tofas

1997: Racing Paris (France Champion 1997)

2000-01: Panionios

2002-03: Slovan

2003: Split (Croatian Champion 2003)

With the Yugoslav national team he has won 4 gold medals (Eurobasket 1989 & 1991, 1990 Mundobasket, 1983 Eurobasket), a silver medal (Eurobasket 1984) and a bronze (1988 Olympics). He participated in 4 Eurobasket and the Slovenian national team.

Since 2020 he has been a member of FIBA’s Hall of Fame. “