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The matchup of coaches might have been just as fascinating as the players. On one end we found Croatian Drazen Anzulovic, considered one of the more promising young minds in the business (already with Euroleague and Russian league head coaching experience under his belt at age 41 from stops with Cibona Zagreb and Ural Great), pitted against his former coach, Serbian Svetislav Pesic, a grizzled veteran with an impressive resume, including a world championship won with the Serbian National team (Indianapolis, 2002), and European championships with both Serbia (2001) and Germany (1993). His domestic league resume features decorated stops in places like Barcelona, Rome, Alba Berlin, Dynamo Moscow and others.
Anzulovic, rumored to have the inside track on coaching the Croatian national team starting this upcoming summer, sports a 29-3 record for Charleroi since taking over the team last February. His home country of Croatia appears to be on a serious upswing as of late, having qualified for the Olympics through the “last chance” tournament in Athens and then putting in a very respectable performance which saw them lose to Spain in the quarter finals, with him as the assistant coach under Lottomatica Rome’s Jasmin Repesa. Cibona Zagreb looks like the darlings of the Euroleague early on, A number of spanking new arenas have been built (in Zadar, Cibona, Split) while more are being built, and it seems like things are finally starting to look up for this very important basketball country which has underachieved badly as of late.
