Filip Socek
Serbian basketball player and coach
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Filip Socek (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Соцек; born December 31, 1982) is a Serbian basketball coach and former player.
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| Born | December 31, 1982 | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Serbian | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 2004: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2001–2009 | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Guard | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 2009–present | ||||||||||||||
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Coaching | |||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Mladost Bački Jarak (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Meridiana (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Meridiana | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Spartak | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2019, 2019–2020 | Vojvodina | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Pirot | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Spartak | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Radnički Kragujevac | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 - 2024 | BC Kazma, Kuwait | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 - present | KK Proleter, Zrenjanin | ||||||||||||||
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Playing career
Coaching career
Socek was a coach head coach of Mladost Bački Jarak and Meridiana.[2] He won the Serbian B League in 2012–13 season with Meridiana.
He was an assistant coach for Serbia men's national under-16 basketball team which won a silver medal at the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship.[3]
Prior to the 2014–15 season, Socek became a head coach for the Spartak Subotica. In January 2015, Socek was named as a head coach for the Vojvodina.[1] He left Vojvodina after the 2018–19 season. In November 2019, he signed for Vojvodina.[4] He left the club after in June 2020.
On 16 November 2020, Socek was hired as the new head coach of Pirot.[5] Prior to the 2021–22 2MLS season, Spartak Subotica hired him as their new head coach. Spartak fired him in November 2021.[6] On 21 February 2022, Radnički Kragujevac hired Socek as their new head coach.[7][8]
Career achievements and awards
- Serbian B League champion: 1 (with Meridiana: 2012–13)
- AP Vojvodina Coach of the Year: 2017[9]