Silvano Poropat (born April 19, 1971) is a Croatian professional

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coach. Poropat started his coaching career in 2000, and since then he has coached in

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and the

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Coaching career

On January 1, 2010, Poropat was signed by Latvian side

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as their new head coach. On May 5, 2011, Poropat was fired after failing to reach the LKL finals. From 2011 until 2015, Poropat was the head coach of German side

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. In the 2011–12 season, Poropat won the second division

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with Mitteldeutscher and promoted to the

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. He was named the

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of the 2013–14 season. On March 3, 2016,

Telekom Baskets Bonn Telekom Baskets Bonn, also known as Baskets Bonn, is a German professional basketball club that is based in Bonn, Germany. The club plays in the Basketball Bundesliga, which is the highest level pro basketball league in Germany. The club's spon ...

signed Poropat as their new head coach. On May 31, 2017, Poropat signed a two-year contract with

New Heroes Den Bosch Heroes Den Bosch is a Dutch professional basketball club based in 's-Hertogenbosch. The club plays in the BNXT League since 2021 and in the top basketball division in the Netherlands since 1972. Founded as EBBC in 1951, the club had several sponso ...

of the

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. On March 12, 2018, Poropat was suspended for four games in the DBL, after insulting referees during a game. Den Bosch finished fourth in the standings and was eliminated in the quarter-finals by fifth seed

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. On the first day of the start of his second season with Den Bosch, Poropat and New Heroes parted ways. In January 2019, Poropat returned to Mitteldeutscher BC.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Poropat, Silvano 1971 births Living people BG Karlsruhe coaches BK Ventspils coaches Croatian basketball coaches Croatian expatriate basketball people in Germany Croatian expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands Heroes Den Bosch coaches MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg coaches Mitteldeutscher BC coaches People from Pula Telekom Baskets Bonn coaches