Sekulic will be able to continue being Slovenia coach after signing for Barça

ByDavid Mitchell

Alexander Sekulic may continue to perform functions as a coach Slovenia while working as a technician Barça. The Ljubljana coach will benefit from the disappearance of a rule of incompatibility of his technical position with that of coach, something that worked several years ago in Spain and that limited the teams’ market access options.

Barça announced Aleksander this Wednesday Sekulic as the new first team coach for the next two seasons. The 48-year-old Slovenian coach signs until June 30, 2028 and becomes the first Slovenian coach in the history of the section.

The Slovenian comes from Dubai B.C. whom he has directed in the final part of the Euroleague, combining the position with that of Slovenia coach that he has held since 2020 with important achievements under the leadership on the field of Luka Doncic.

This situation was not possible a decade ago, when relations between the ACB and the Spanish Federation They were not like the current ones and the league clubs decided to impose this limitation on themselves to force their coaches to be fully dedicated and, in the process, also make it difficult for the FEB to access the market.

The agreements with the coaching group improved this situation and currently the incompatibility no longer applies. In fact, there have been recent examples of coaches ACB who have alternated their functions with those of selectors: Sito Alonso (UCAM) has held the position with Latvia and Diego Ocampo (Manresa) has also been a Czech Republic coach, to give two examples.

It will be necessary to see in practice, to what extent this double condition hinders the work of Sekulic in it Barça. Euroleague and FIBA agreed to harmonize their calendars in a Window FIBA of the season but there is another that continues with calendars that overlap. This happened to Sergio Scariolowhen he held the position of Spanish coach and coach of Virtus Bolognaand had to be relieved by his assistant Luis Guil in a match with Iceland with the Selection.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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