{"id":492659,"date":"2026-04-13T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492659"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:52:44","slug":"dubai-basketball-appoints-aleksander-sekulic-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dubai-basketball-appoints-aleksander-sekulic-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Basketball appoints Aleksander Sekuli\u0107 as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1470\" data-end=\"1753\"><strong data-start=\"1470\" data-end=\"1490\">Dubai Basketball<\/strong> has officially named <strong data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1534\">Aleksander Sekuli\u0107<\/strong> as the new head coach of the first team until the end of the season. The 48-year-old Slovenian coach will make his debut on the bench against <strong data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1696\">Valencia Basket<\/strong> in the final round of the <strong data-start=\"1723\" data-end=\"1737\">EuroLeague<\/strong> regular season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"2004\">Sekuli\u0107 has been the head coach of the <strong data-start=\"1794\" data-end=\"1821\">Slovenian national team<\/strong> since 2020 and led the country to a fourth-place finish at the <strong data-start=\"1885\" data-end=\"1913\">Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games<\/strong>. He now begins a new chapter at club level, taking over at a crucial moment of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2006\" data-end=\"2251\">In Dubai, he will also reunite with team captain <strong data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2074\">Klemen Prepeli\u0107<\/strong>, a player he already knows well from the national team setup. As an assistant coach, Sekuli\u0107 was also part of the Slovenia staff that won the gold medal at <strong data-start=\"2231\" data-end=\"2250\">EuroBasket 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slovenian coach will lead the team until the end of the season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":492658,"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":[191,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-492659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-euroleague","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/HFxbNkya8AAOpAK.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492659","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=492659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492659"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492659"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492659"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}