Coach Dejan Tomic heads to Al-Riffa!!

Dejan Tomic

Al-Riffa club has agreed with the experienced 59 years old Serbian Coach and the Asia-Basket.com All-Bahrain League Coach of the Year last two seasons Dejan Tomic . Coach Dejan replaced the former American coach of the team Sam Vincent who coached the team in the second half of last season and won the Bahraini cup.
The specialist Serbian coach has already landed Bahrain and started the preparations for the upcoming season which will start in August, last two seasons he coached Al Ittihad Club and made a huge impact in the team, with one of youngest and lowest budgets teams in the league he succeeded to reach the semi-final of Bahraini cup last two seasons and entered the top 6 stage last season for the first time in the club history, Al-Ittihad won the silver league stage last season under his leadership.
He is one of most experienced European coach in Middle East, previously he coached in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Morocco, Kuwait and in Serbia Cyprus and Singapore outside of Middle East, back to 2013 was one of his historic seasons when he won the Arab Gulf Championship and league of Qatar for the first time is Al Sadd Sports Club Doha Club history.