Within three years, Jeronimo Sharin will work for the third time in Kosovo basketball. In the 2019/20 season, which starts next weekend, the Croatian coach will be in charge of KB Peja, a team that returned to the elite after a one-year hiatus.
Peja's team only a few minutes after officializing the return to the Super League, confirmed coach Sharin, who knows Kosovo basketball well. Earlier, he was also a coach in Prishtina and Bashkimi, but for short periods, Koha Ditore writes today.
He was appointed to Prishtina in October 2016 to leave at the end of the year, while he was at Bashkimi in the previous edition, where he stayed from February to May of this year. However, Sharin insists that this time he has come to stay significantly longer in Kosovo, as his goal is to start and finish the season as coach of Peja.
"I hope this is the third truth," says Sharin. "Although the first two times I was successful. After Peja's contacts with my agent, where serious plans were revealed, an agreement was reached between both parties."
Unlike Pristina and the Union, Sharin in Peja will have a different mission, not as he says "firefighters" as in the first two cases.
In Peja, Sharin will start everything from the beginning, creating a stable team that returned to Kosovo basketball. Peja was not part of the Super League last year, as it was not licensed by the Basketball Federation of Kosovo (FBK) due to large debts to FIBA... (Read more in Koha Ditore)