Jurica Golemac is no longer the head coach of Cedevita Olimpija

Basketball club Cedevita Olimpija and Jurica Golemac have agreed to terminate the contract. Golemac took over the head coaching job of the Dragons team in 2020, and with the Ljubljana’s squad he won two Slovenian national championship titles.

Jurica Golemac is no longer the head coach of the senior team of Cedevita Olimpija. Golemac became the head coach of the Ljubljana squad in January 2020, replacing Slaven Rimac in this position. With Golemac on the bench, Cedevita Olimpija won two titles of the Slovenian national champion (2021, 2022), two titles of the Slovenian Cup champion (2022, 2023) and three titles of the Slovenian Super Cup champion (2020, 2021, 2022). In the 2021/22 season, he also led Cedevita Olimpija to the semifinals of the AdmiralBet ABA League and the quarterfinals of the 7DAYS EuroCup.

The Dragons team will be led by the former assistant head coach Miro Alilović in the middle of the European Cup match in Ulm and until further notice.

“We have decided to make a decision to change the head coach. Jurica Golemac had the full confidence of the club, but the bad games and results in the last period of this season indicated that things inside the team are unfortunately not working as they should. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Jurica for the effort, work and energy he invested in his work as head coach. We believe that he has a beautiful and successful coaching career ahead of him, but we certainly wish him the best of luck on his further sports and life journey,” said the director of Cedevita Olimpija, Davor Užbinec, upon announcing the termination of the contract with Golemac. “We are actively looking for a new head coach of our senior team, which will be led by Miro Alilović until further notice. We expect our boys to give their all in every match, and to fight for Cedevita Olimpija to the last atom of energy.”