{"id":478752,"date":"2026-01-13T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478752"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:11:06","slug":"slovenia-extends-aleksander-sekulic-as-mens-national-team-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/slovenia-extends-aleksander-sekulic-as-mens-national-team-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia Extends Aleksander Sekuli\u0107 as Men\u2019s National Team Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"539\">The Executive Board of the <strong data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"374\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Basketball Federation of Slovenia<\/span><\/span><\/strong> has unanimously approved the proposal to extend <strong data-start=\"423\" data-end=\"464\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Aleksander Sekuli\u0107<\/span><\/span><\/strong> as head coach of the Slovenian men\u2019s national team for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"820\">The decision confirms Sekuli\u0107 in the role until the end of <strong data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"608\">2027<\/strong>, representing his <strong data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"645\">fourth mandate<\/strong> on the bench of the national team. Appointed head coach in November 2020, he has since become the <strong data-start=\"744\" data-end=\"769\">longest-serving coach<\/strong> in the history of Slovenia\u2019s senior men\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"822\" data-end=\"1122\">Sekuli\u0107 first joined the national team staff in 2006 and served primarily as an assistant coach until 2020. As head coach, he has led Slovenia to <strong data-start=\"968\" data-end=\"1014\">all three major international competitions<\/strong>: the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2021), the FIBA World Cup (2023), and two EuroBasket tournaments (2022 and 2025).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1484\">Together with his staff, Sekuli\u0107 will soon reconvene the national team as qualification games for the <strong data-start=\"1226\" data-end=\"1258\">2027 FIBA World Cup in Qatar<\/strong> resume. 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