Date of Birth: 27 February 1987
Place of Birth: Knin, Croatia
Citizenship: Serbian and Croatian
Address: Cankareva 28, Novi Sad
Mother tongue: Serbian
Telephone: +381 21 510 871 (at home)
Cell phone: +381 63 715 66 82 ,
E-mail : ugrican@yahoo.com kkneos@yahoo.com
FIBA license no. : 2018506196

FIBA basketball coach
Faculty of Economy, University of Novi Sad (final year, 3 exams pending to Bachelor degree)
Faculty of Basketball Belgrade, barchelor degree, red license for coach in basketball
Grammar School ‘Svetozar Markovic’, Novi Sad, 2005.

• From minibasket to seniors of KK Novi Sad, played 2 years in 1b league (second league in Serbia) in senior team, in 2003.
• 8 years in third division, top 2 clubs from 2003. to 2007.
• 1 year in Bosnian Premier league for Drina Zvornik in 2008.
• Last year played 1b league again for KK Meridiana Novi Sad
• Played with success for 3×3 Team Novi Sad in 2013-2014(finished runners up at World Team FIBA rankings, champions at Bucharest, Prague and runner up at World Tour Final at Istanbul, Turkey and also runners up at Doha Fiba All Stars, Qatar)
• Finished 2014. At 13th place in world on FIBA individual ranking list

• Started coaching minibasket at 2007. in club called Grbavica in Elementary school Nikola Tesla in Novi Sad
• In 2009 accepted offer from other club called KK NS stars, also from Novi Sad, but in other elementary school Prva Vojvodjanska Brigada
• Coaching two selections (U 15 and minibasket U 10)
• Now coaching only U 11, because owner wanted to concentrate at this selection
• Taking part in as coach and organizing many tournaments for kids for example in Prague, Szeged, Budapest, Barcelona and in Serbia many big cities
• Won several 3×3 competitions in Serbia with selection
• Won award for best 3×3 coach for U 11 and U 13 in tournaments in region of Vojvodina
• Organized several 3×3 tournaments for kids
• Finished 5th in Region Minibasket competition with NS STARS
• Bought Basketball club NEOS in july 2016 (with 17 kids, then it grew up to over 80 for six months time)
• is coordinator and driblling specialist for all ELITE groups at Basketball camp Rafael Jofresa, in Logrono,Spain 2 years in row
• Finished 12th at Basketball tourneament at Luxembourgh with 3 years younger kids and get reward for best behaviour team
• Have his own basketball club called Neos with 120 kids in Novi Sad, Serbia
• Have his own professional agency for individual trainings in which he trained a lot of young top prospect players and professional top players from ABA, VTB, even Euroleague ( Combo Guard Agency)
• Worked from September to December in Manila, Philipinnes, University of Philippines mens baskeball team as consultant (they reached finals for first time after 32 years)
• 2019 his club was upgrated in Serbian 3rd division
• For 3rd straight year head coach in Ard camp in Odessa
• Individual working all summer with top players, NBA, Euroleague, Eurocup,..
• Kobets (Washington Wisards), Doncic 1 week in Spain and consultant for individual work during years
• Milutinov Panathinaikos, Kalinic Fenerbahce Ulker ( Euroleague ),
• Bobrov Ukraine national, Fuenlabrada (ACB league),Apic Burgos (ACB league), Mitrovic (ACB League), Golubovic ( Krasnodar, Vladivostok, TAU Ceramica,…)
• Doncic personal trainings for 1 week in Madrid in 2017
• Lots of lower leagues and Serbian national league players
• From September to December 2019 again consultant in Philippines UP Fighting Maroons (first time in 30 years score 9.5 , and have twice to beat aggregate in f4 semis)
• 2019. U19 quaified in State Championship ( TRIGLAV Juniorska liga Srbije) top 12 teams in country
• 1st semi pro senior team 3rd right now in 3rd Serbian League
• Worked again from September to December as Consultant of UP Fighting Maroons, Manila, Phillipines (finished 3rd, first time in top 4 back to back years in history)
• Organised individual personal training camps for BC Loyola LOogrono, Spain Leb Oro, Ukraine national team u 16, Women basketball team from Andalusia, Spain, caddetes from several Rоmanian clubs
• Hosted Japanese 3×3 team u 18 from Saga, Japan, head coach amd coordinator of whole camp

Hard worker; ability to meet deadlines; good communication and negotiating skills; high sense of responsibility; team-player; ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with kids; ability to deal with unexpected events; ability to approach kids in a tactful and parential manner; persistence in accomplishing goals; ability to work in a multi-ethnic environment; locking formward to exploring new things, new style of work; prepare to listen and obey every good will advice.

– Fluent in both written and spoken English
– Beginner level of knowledge of the German language
– Intermediate level of the knowledge of the Spanish language
– Computer literate in (MS Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
– Valid driving license (B category) and active driver since 2006