- Dragan Raca
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Dragan Raca (born Yugoslavia, 1961) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former coach of the Lebanon national basketball team.
Raca has spent his professional career by playing and coaching different Yugoslav professional teams and continued in Cyprus and Lebanon. This includes stints with Cypriot sides AEL Limasol and APOEL Nicosia and Lebanese side Hekmeh.[1] He has also coached the Lebanon national basketball team at both the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 and FIBA Asia Championship 2009, leading the team to a silver medal in 2007.[2] Despite the team's disappointing fourth place finish in 2009, they were later awarded a wild card to the 2010 FIBA World Championship.[3]
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Lebanon squad – 2009 FIBA Asia Championship – 4th Place 4 Jean Abdelnour | 5 Jackson Vroman | 6 Ali Mahmoud | 7 Rony Fahed | 8 Omar El Turk | 9 Brian Beshara | 10 Ali Kanaan | 11 Rodrigue Akl | 12 Daniel Faris | 13 Matt Freije | 14 Mazen Mneimneh | 15 Fadi El Khatib | Coach: Dragan RacaCategories:- 1974 births
- Living people
- Serbian basketball coaches
- Southern European basketball biography stubs
- Serbian sportspeople stubs
- Asian basketball biography stubs
- Lebanese sportspeople stubs
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