Mile Protić ( sr-cyr, Миле Протић, born 2 October 1950) is a Serbian former professional

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coach.

Coaching career

Protić coached Belgrade-based team

Crvena zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

of the Yugoslav First Federal League over 8 games during the 1978–79 season. He coached Bulgarian team

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in the first half of the 1990s where he won two Bulgarian League championships (1992–93, 1993–94) and one

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(1993). Protić was a youth coach for Balkan Botevgrad. Protić was a coach at the Crvena zvezda youth teams. In recent years, he has been working as a youth coach in

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, China. Protić owns a Belgrade-based club Probasket for a

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Personal life

In July 2016, Serbian coach

Dušan Ivković Dušan "Duda" Ivković ( sr-Cyrl, Душан "Дуда" Ивковић; 29 October 1943 – 16 September 2021) was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He served as head coach of the senior Serbian national basketball team from 2 ...

and Protić reportedly got into a verbal altercation at a basketball clinic in the Šumice Center that nearly turned physical.

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Coaching career

Personal life

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