Partizan hires Jovanovic and inks Milosavljevic

After Dusko Vujosevic left Partizan to sign for CSKA on Friday, the club turned around and tabbed his assistant as the new head coach. Vlada Jovanovic, 37, who spent the last five years working under Vujosevic, has been handed the reins to the club. Jovanovic won five Serbian League championship titles with Partizan, four Adriatic League crowns and three Radivoj Korac Cup trophies. Last summer he coached the Serbian under-18 national team at the European Championships in France where they won the gold medal.

"It is big honor for me to lead a club like Partizan," Jovanovic said. "I am grateful to president Predrag Danilovic and sporting director Dragan Todoric, and most of all to Dusko Vujosevic, who recommended me. That means lot to me and I will do my best to justify that trust. Partizan is big club not only in Serbia, but in Europe and I am honored to coach one of Europe’s greats."


Shortly after naming Vlada Jovanovic as its new head coach, Partizan Belgrade signed shooting guard Dragan Milosavljevic, making him the team's first new addition for the coming season. Milosavljevic (21, 198) arrives from fellow Serbian side Radnicki, with whom he reached the Serbian Superleague semifinals last year. He averaged 8.8 points for Radnicki in the Serbian Superleague and 10.2 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game in the Adriatic League. Milosavljevic is one of 23 players that Serbian national team coach Dusan Ivkovic has called up for the preliminary roster for this summer’s World Championship in Turkey. He developed at Napredak Rubin from Krusevac, where he played from 2006 to 2009. Milosavljevic was a member of the Serbian team at the under-20 European Championships in France last year, where he recorded 9.9 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.