2024-08-26 06:25:33
The acquisition of Nemanja Manojlovic, one of the elite foreign players of the Elite League, was announced by the Vikos Falcons, confirming the assessment that they are moving in the transfer market, with the aim of having a leading role in the second tier competition.
The athlete from Serbia was born in 1993, has a height of 1.97 and competes in the guard positions. He has played in the Elite League for four of the last five years and is one of the league’s most valuable players, having led Triton to promotion to the Basket League in the 2022-23 season.
The Serbian ace started his professional career from Superfund Beograd, Serbia, for which he had earlier competed in younger age categories. Then, in the four years 2012-16, he played in KK Tamis Petrohemija Pancevo and for one year in OKK Beograd, also teams of his country.
He came to Greece for the first time in 2019, wearing the colors of Eleftheroupoli (15.1 points, 8 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 1.1 steals in 32 minutes of participation). In the 2021-2022 season and the second half of the 2022-2023 season he played for Triton, starting the last years at CSM VSKC Miercurea Ciuc in Romania. During his last stint with Triton, he was the star of his rise to the Basket League, averaging 15.6 points, 3.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.2 steals per game. Last season he played for 12 games in Panerythraikos (11.9 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.1 goals in 26 minutes of participation) and continued the year in Espero Lamias (15.2 points, 5 rebounds, 3.5 as., 1 kg in 29 minutes of participation).
“I am very happy to be in Ioannina and to be part of this team, looking forward to a great season. I want to thank coach Muccio and the management, who believed in me and chose me and we will work together. I would like to wish everyone a season of health and may it bring us all happiness and joy. The team looks great and full of potential, we will give our best and hopefully bring a lot of success to the city of Ioannina, I can’t wait to see full stands and play in front of a full gym,” Nemanja Manojlovic said in a statement.