Stefan Ćirić is again the first coach of Partizan
Stefan Ćirić, assistant coach of the Serbian national team, returned to Partizan after three years of working abroad.
The club from Banjica announced today that it appointed Ćirić as the first coach of the senior team. Ćirić started his successful coaching career in Partizan, where he was until 2020, when he went to French Noisy-le-Sec, with whom he had three successful seasons.
VK Partizan stated in today's announcement:
"The Board of Directors of VK Partizan made a decision that from the next season the first coach of the senior team will be the well-known expert Stefan Ćirić, who has been a coach in the coaching staff of our senior national team for many years as an assistant to Dejan Savić and Uroš Stevanović).
As a coach, Stefan Ćirić grew up in Partizan, where he excelled first by working with the younger categories. From March 2017 to January 2020, he was the coach of the first team. In that period, he won two championships and one cup. Since September 2020, he has been the coach of Noyzi la Seca, with whom he achieved the greatest success in the club's history.
In the national team, he was one of Dejan Savić's first associates for years. First in the junior national selections and since 2013 in the senior national team. He was in it until the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. From October 2022, he is again in the professional staff of our national team as the first assistant to coach Uroš Stevanović.
We are convinced that the election of Stefan Ćirić is an important moment in the continuation of the creation of new champions born from the water polo school of Partizan, who will write new golden pages for both our club and Serbian water polo. We especially thank him for adapting to the circumstances and way of functioning in our club.
We want Partizan to be what it used to be in the foreseeable future and we are sure that with Ćirić on the bench we will make it easier.
We thank the previous coach Miloš Korolija for his successful work. We want to keep him in our ranks, he has been offered a new position in the club, and we will inform you about his decision later."
