{"id":484014,"date":"2026-02-16T11:25:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484014"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:25:57","slug":"syntainics-mbc-appoints-milenko-bogicevic-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/syntainics-mbc-appoints-milenko-bogicevic-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntainics MBC appoints Milenko Bogicevic as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1903\" data-end=\"2174\"><strong data-start=\"1903\" data-end=\"1921\">Syntainics MBC<\/strong> have named <strong data-start=\"1933\" data-end=\"1954\">Milenko Bogicevic<\/strong> as their new head coach. The 49-year-old Serbian is expected in Wei\u00dfenfels on Tuesday morning and is set to make his debut on <strong data-start=\"2081\" data-end=\"2104\">Thursday at 7:00 pm<\/strong> in the away game at <strong data-start=\"2125\" data-end=\"2140\">Ludwigsburg<\/strong> (Round 21 of the easyCredit BBL).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2176\" data-end=\"2530\">Bogicevic takes over from <strong data-start=\"2202\" data-end=\"2221\">Silvano Poropat<\/strong>, the club\u2019s sporting director who stepped in as interim head coach for five games following Marco Ramondino\u2019s departure. He signed a deal through the end of the <strong data-start=\"2383\" data-end=\"2394\">2025\/26<\/strong> season and arrives after spending <strong data-start=\"2429\" data-end=\"2453\">two and a half years<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"2459\" data-end=\"2478\">Avtodor Saratov<\/strong>, the longest coaching tenure in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2532\" data-end=\"2952\">Alongside his club role, Bogicevic has worked as an assistant coach with the <strong data-start=\"2609\" data-end=\"2634\">Serbian national team<\/strong> since the start of the season. He is widely known for a long stint as <strong data-start=\"2705\" data-end=\"2725\">Sasa Obradovic\u2019s<\/strong> assistant across multiple stops, including <strong data-start=\"2769\" data-end=\"2784\">ALBA Berlin<\/strong> (2012-2016) and <strong data-start=\"2801\" data-end=\"2814\">AS Monaco<\/strong> (2019\/20 and 2022\/23), plus roles in Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Serbia. As a head coach, he also led <strong data-start=\"2917\" data-end=\"2929\">Prometey<\/strong> (2021) before Saratov.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2954\" data-end=\"3151\">\u201cI thank the club leadership for their trust,\u201d Bogicevic said, calling MBC \u201ca club with a big heart and a great soul,\u201d and stressing the need to quickly build chemistry to secure the wins required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 49-year-old Serbian coach replaces interim boss Silvano Poropat and signs through the end of 2025\/26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":484013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-484014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbl","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/MB-HP-1024x512-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484014"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484014"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484014"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}