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Vidi ko je u avionu

/ Look who’s on Board

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lato koje su košarkašice Srbije osvojile na

Evropskom prvenstvu u Rumuniji i Mađarskoj,

samo za jednu osobu nije bilo iznenađenje. Ona je

arhitekta tog uspeha koji je zacrtala kada je prihva-

tila mesto selektora reprezentacije Srbije.

Marina Maljković četiri godine vodi ekipu Srbije,

a sa trideset tri godine najmlađi je košarkaški selek-

tor u Evropi. Iako mlada, već ima zavidno iskustvo glavnog trenera

– za dvanaest godina osvajala je brojne titule sa klubovima u Srbiji, a

poslednje dve godine uspešno trenira francuski klub Lion.

Bez njenog liderstva izvesno je da igračice Srbije na terenu ne

bi uspele da izbore zlato. Šarmantna i jednostavna, Marina je žena

koja je ostvarila istorijski uspeh, jer nikada do sada ženska košar-

kaška reprezentacija Srbije, a ni pređašnje Jugoslavije, nije osvojila

najsjajnije odličje na velikim međunarodnim takmičenjima.

– To je rezultat sistematskog zalaganja tokom četiri godine –

ističe Marina Maljković. – Četiri godine paklenog rada. Bio je to

zaista rudarski posao.

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The gold that Serbia’s

lady basketball players won at

the European Championship

in Romania and Hungary was

a surprise for many, but not for

one person. She is the archi-

tect of that success, which she

planned out when she accepted

the offer to become coach of

Serbia’s national team.

Marina Maljković has been

leading the Serbia team for four

years, and at 33 years old she is

the youngest female basketball

coach in Europe. Although

young, she already has signifi-

cant head coach experience – in

12 years she has won numerous

titles with clubs in Serbia and

France, where she has been

coaching the Lyon team for two

years.

Without her leadership,

there is no doubt that the Ser-

bian players on the court would

not have succeeded in winning

gold. Enticing and uncompli-

cated, Marina is a woman who

has achieved historic success,

because never before has a

women’s basketball team of Ser-

bia, or the previous Yugoslavia,

won gold in any major interna-

tional competitions.

- This is the result of sys-

tematic work over the course

of four years – says Maljković.

– Four years of hellish work. It

was like a mining job.

On route to gold, Serbia’s

players, led by championship

MVP Ana Dabović, left many

basketball powerhouses in their

wake. In the final they over-

came France, having previously

eliminated Turkey and Belarus.

- We are enjoying this

previously unprecedented suc-

cess – says Marina honestly. – I

still think Turkey has a better

team than us, and that France

has better quality in terms of

reference. But the thrill of sport

is that it isn’t only the favou-

rites and the richest who win,

because if that was the case it

would be boring.

During the European Cham-

pionships, the finals of which

were held in the Hungarian

capital of Budapest, Maljković

showed no emotion at any time,

not changing her serious facial

expression. She smiled only

after the triumph.

- Such a great competition

brings with it strong emotions –

reveals Marina. – At that instant,

Rođeni lider, dosledna i autoritativna, postala je košarkaški

trener prvoligaša u dvadeset prvoj godini, selektor

nacionalnog tima sa dvadeset devet, prvak Evrope sa trideset

tri. Četiri godine je od oca, košarkaškog trenera, krila da

se i ona bavi tim napornim, stresnim i, kako sama kaže,

„rudarskim poslom“.

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A born leader, consistent and authoritative, she became a

topflight basketball coach aged 21, head coach of the national

team at 29, and European champion by the time she was 33.

For four years she hid from her father, also a basketball coach,

that she was doing this difficult, stressful and, as she says

herself, “miner’s job”.