Radenko Varagić (born 23 September 1973) is a Serbian-Dutch
basketball
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coach
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. He currently serves as a head coach for
BAL Weert
Basketball Academie Limburg, commonly known as BAL, is a Dutch basketball club based in Weert in the province of Limburg. The club was founded in 2013 as an academy to develop youth players from the province of Limburg. The club entered the Dutch ...
of the
BNXT League.
Coaching career
Born in Serbia, Varagić started his coaching career in 2015 with
Ribnica and during 2017 to 2011, he worked for Kraljevo, Krusevac and
Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the P ...
.
After a period in the youth academy of
Red Star Belgrade
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in ...
, he moved to the Netherlands in 2014. On 13 September 2016, Varagić was appointed as
head coach
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of
BSW of the
Dutch Basketball League (DBL).
After the 2016–17 season, the club went bankrupt and was replaced by
BAL, as he took over as head coach of the club's new DBL team.
In the 2020–21 season, he coached BAL to their first playoffs appearance after finishing in the eight place. On 2 May 2021, Varagić won the
2021
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DBL Cup
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with his team after beating
Yoast United
Yoast United is a Dutch basketball club based in Bemmel, Gelderland. Established in 2020, the team plays in the BNXT League, the highest level of basketball in the Netherlands. Home games are played at De Kooi, which has a capacity of 650 people. ...
in the final.
On 6 October 2022, Varagic was appointed as interim head coach of the
Netherlands national team after the firing of
Maurizio Buscaglia.
He was already coaching Netherlands U-16 since 2019.
Personal
Varagić received the Dutch nationality in 2022.
He is married to Vesna and has six children.
Coaching record
Dutch Basketball League
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2017–18
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2018–19
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2019–20
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2020–21
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Varagic, Radenko
1973 births
Living people
Basketball Academie Limburg coaches
Serbian expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands
Serbian men's basketball coaches
Sportspeople from Belgrade