Three-time ABA League champion Milenko Tepić retires from basketball

Thursday, 15. July 2021 at 21:26

Milenko Tepić has decided to retire from basketball. A former player of Vojvodina, Partizan NIS and Mega Basket, who won three ABA League championships during his player’s career, will still remain in the basketball world as he accepted the offer from Mega Basket to become the club’s Team Manager.

Milenko Tepic (Photo: Mega Soccerbet/Ivica Veselinov)

Milenko Tepić has decided to retire from basketball. A former player of Vojvodina, Partizan NIS and Mega Basket, who won three ABA League championships during his player’s career, will still remain in the basketball world as he accepted the offer from Mega Basket to become the club’s Team Manager.

Milenko Tepić started his pro career in his hometown club Vojvodina. In the 2005/06 season he made his ABA League debut as a player of Vojvodina, while in the next season he moved to Partizan NIS with whom he won three consecutive ABA League championships. In 2009 he left Partizan NIS to join Panathinaikos Athens and with the Greek team he became an EuroLeague champion in 2011.

Tepić returned to Partizan NIS in 2013 and his second stint with the black-and-whites lasted until 2015. After 5 more years abroad, he once again came back to ABA League courts in the 2020/21 season in which he played for Mega Basket.

“It was not an easy decision to finish my career, but on the other hand, when the management of Mega offered me to stay at the club at the position of Team Manager, we have quickly reached an agreement. I have been in Mega for only a year, but during that time I only confirmed the opinion I had before, that this is an extremely organized club in which there is a system and where everyone is really dedicated 24 hours to the players and their progress. I believe that I will not need much to get used to the new role, since I am already familiar with the system of functioning of the club, the conditions, and that I have already had the opportunity to play and practice with most of the players. I look forward to the beginning of a new chapter for me,” said Tepić.

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Tepić završio igračku karijeru, ali ostaje u Megi

Košarkaš Mege i bivši reprezentativac Srbije Milenko Tepić završio je igračku karijeru, ali će ostati u Megi na poziciji Tim menadžera ekipe. Tepić je prošlog leta pojačao redove Mege i svojim velikim igračkim kvalitetom i iskustvom izuzetno je doprineo sjajnim rezultatima kluba, kao i velikom napretku mladih košarkaša Mege.

Tom prilikom Generalni menadžer Mega Basketa Goran Ćakić je u ime kluba istakao da mu je veoma drago što je Tepić izabrao da ostane u klubu po završetku igračke karijere:

– Milenko je ove sezone ne samo igrački, već i svojim savetima i iskustvom, puno doprineo odličnim rezultatima i individualnom napretku igrača i veoma nam je drago što će nastaviti da bude deo kluba. Čestitamo mu na sjajnoj igračkoj karijeri, sigurni smo da će se kao neko ko je već upoznat sa sistemom Mege brzo uklopiti u novu ulogu i biti ništa manje uspešan, izjavio je Ćakić.

Tepić je istakao da posle odluke da završi igračku karijeru, nije morao puno da razmišlja o predlogu da ostane u Megi na novoj poziciji:

– Samu odluku da završim igračku karijeru nisam doneo lako, ali sa druge strane, kada mi je uprava Mege ponudila ostanem u klubu na poziciji Tim menadžera, brzo smo stigli do dogovora. U Megi sam godinu dana, ali za to vreme sam samo potvrdio mišljenje koje sam imao i ranije, da se radi o izuzetno organizovanom klubu u kome postoji sistem i gde su svi zaista 24 sata posvećeni igračima i njihovom napretku. Verujem da mi neće biti puno potrebno da se naviknem na novu ulogu pošto sam već upoznat sa sistemom funkcionisanja kluba, uslovima, kao i da sam sa većinom igrača već imao priliku da igram i treniram. Željno iščekujem početak novog poglavlja za mene, izjavio je Tepić.

Milenko Tepić je rođen 27. februara 1987. godine u Novom Sadu i u bogatoj igračkoj karijeri je pored Mege, nastupao još za Vojvodinu, Partizan (u dva navrata), Panatinaikos, Sevilju, Lijetuvos Ritas, PAOK (u dva navrata), Orlandinu, Brindizi, Vareze i Iraklis. Sa Panatinaikosom je osvojio Evroligu 2011. godine uz dve titule u Grčkoj dok je sa Partizanom osvojio devet trofeja (tri ABA lige, četiri Superlige i dva Kupa Radivoja Koraća).Tepić je osvojio i četiri zlata na Evropskim prvenstvima u mlađim nacionalnim selekcijama a sa prvim timom Srbije je osvojio srebro na Evropskom prvenstvu 2009. godine u Poljskoj.

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