Milan Škobalj

Milan Škobalj (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Шкобаљ, born 9 July 1963) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He was head coach of Rostock Seawolves until January 2020 in the German ProA.

Milan Škobalj
Personal information
Born (1963-07-09) 9 July 1963
Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Career information
NBA draft1985 / Undrafted
Playing career1981–1994
Coaching career1994–present
Career history
As coach:
1994–1998FMP Železnik (youth)
1998–2001FMP Železnik (assistant)
2001–2008Crvena zvezda (assistant)
2008Crvena zvezda
2008–2009Kyiv (assistant)
2009–2012Hørsholm 79ers
2012–2013Sport Plazza Casablanca
2013–2014Amal Essaouira
2015–2016Eos Lund
2016–2018FOG Næstved
2018–2020Rostock Seawolves
Career highlights and awards
As head coach:

As assistant coach:

Coaching career

Škobalj had worked as an assistant coach in FMP Železnik for three seasons before he became the assistant coach of Crvena zvezda in 2001.[1] In 2008 had a stint as a head coach of Crvena zvezda after Stevan Karadžić resign.[2] In 2008–09 season he was an assistant coach of Kyiv in Ukrainian League.

Škobalj was an assistant coach of Dragan Šakota in the national team of Serbia and Montenegro at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan.[3]

In 2009, Škobalj was hired as the head coach of the Hørsholm 79ers in the Danish League.[4] From 2012 until 2014, he coached two clubs in the Moroccan League, Sport Plazza in Casablanca and Amal in Essaouira.[5] In 2015, he was hired as the head coach of Eos Herrlag in Lund, Sweden.[6]

On 9 May 2016, he was named the head coach of Team FOG Næstved of the Danish League.[7][8] In May 2018, he signed for the Rostock Seawolves of the German 2nd-tier league.[9][10] In January 2020, he was replaced by Dirk Bauermann.[11]

Personal life

His son Filip Škobalj (born 2002) is a basketball player.

See also

References
  1. MILAN SKOBALJ IS THE NEW ASSISTANT COACH OF RED STAR
  2. Milan Škobalj novi trener Crvene zvezde
  3. KK ZVEZDA: Milan Škobalj i zvanično
  4. Ny serbisk træner til Hørsholm
  5. https://mdagencja.pl/milan-skobalj/
  6. Milan Skobalj ny head coach för Eos Herrlag
  7. Team FOG har ny træner på plads
  8. Basketball-holdet Team FOG Næstved har hyret Milan Skobalj som ny træner.
  9. "Milan Škobalj wird neuer Trainer der Rostocker Seawolves". svz.de. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  10. "Seawolves holen Serben Škobalj". ostsee-zeitung.de. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  11. "Dirk Bauermann unterschreibt bei den SEAWOLVES". seawolves.de. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
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