Cedevita Olimpija started the new year with a coaching change.
Cedevita Olimpija makes coaching change, replaces Pianigiani with Martic
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Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana has a new head coach to finish its BKT EuroCup campaign as the club parted ways with Simone Pianigiani, the club announced. The new man on the bench is Zoran Martic.
"Due to the health problems of coach Pianigiani, club and the coach have agreed to part ways", the club said.
Under Pianigiani, who took over this past summer, Cedevita Olimpija has been winless through 13 rounds of the EuroCup regular season, and the team was eliminated from playoff contention last week when it lost 105-100 against Prometey Slobozhanske. During his time in Ljubljana, Pianigiani was forced to miss time due to health issues, including missing three EuroCup games in late October and early November.
For Martic, 58, this will be a return to the club where he already was a head coach, and guided the team to the 2018 Slovenian League title. This will actually be the fourth stint with the club for Martic, who coached Olimpija's youth categories in the 1990s, and served as an assistant with the club from the Slovenian capital from 2008 to 2010.
Martic has spent the last four years in Japan with Chiba Jets. During his three-decades long coaching career, Martic also coached at Geoplin Slovan, Rogla, Loka Kava, Kraški Zidar, Helios, Zlatorog and Krka in Slovenia, Szolnoki Olaj and Kormend in Hungary, Budućnost Podgorica in Montenegro, Apoel Nicosia in Cyprus, Khimik in Ukraine, MZT Skopje in North Macedonia and Trefl Sopot in Poland.