Murat Didin
Turkish basketball player and Coach
Kamil Murat Didin (born 19 March 1955) is a Turkish former basketball player and coach.
Coaching career
Didin had begun his managerial career in 1982 at Ankara DSİ Sports Club. Then he coached various teams in Turkey. He achieved his very first major success at Fenerbahçe with President's Cup victory. He once coached İzmir based outfit Pınar Karşıyaka, a former champion team in 1987. During his Ülkerspor period, he reached TBL title once and President's Cup twice.
He moved to Italy in December 2002 to train Basket Rimini until 2004. Then he joined the Frankfurt team Deutsche Bank Skyliners for the 2004–05 season. Subsequently, he returned to Turkey and coached Beşiktaş Cola Turka. However, he quit the team with a mutual contract termination in January 2007 after several problems occurred, both personal[1] and in squad.[2]
Opel Skyliners had performed well under Didin's management in 2007–08 season, and reached the play-off semi-finals after the regular season with a 3–2 series versus Bayer Giants Leverkusen.[3] However, the team were eliminated by Telekom Baskets Bonn at the semis.[4]
Teams managed
Didin worked both domestic and abroad. He managed Turkish teams until 2002, before joining Italian side Basket Rimini. Didin managed those teams successively:[5]
- Ankara DSİ Spor (1982–83)
- Güney Sanayii (1983–84)
- Hortaş Yenişehir (1984–86)
- Beslen (1986–90)
- TED Kolejliler Ankara (1990–94)
- Fenerbahçe (1994–96)
- Kombassan Konya (1996–98)
- Pınar Karşıyaka (1998–99)
- Ülkerspor (1999–2002)
- Basket Rimini (2002–2004)
- Opel Skyliners (2004–05)
- Beşiktaş Cola Turka (2005–07)
- Frankfurt Skyliners (2007–10)
- Gloria Giants Düsseldorf (2010–13)
- Sintek Jonava (2018)
Achievements
Fenerbahçe - Turkish President's Cup: 1 (1994)
- Ülkerspor
- Turkish Basketball League: 1 (2000–01)[6]
- Turkish President's Cup: 2 (2001, 2002)
Personal
He studied civil engineering in Middle East Technical University at undergraduate level.[7] He is married to Sibel Didin, former national volleyball player and have three children.[8]
References
- ^ "Hedef Didin". euroleague.net. c. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ^ "Beşiktaş'ta Ergin Ataman tamam gibi" (in Turkish). hurriyet.com.tr. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ^ "Didin'li Skyliners yarı finalde: 59-58". hurriyet.com.tr. 2008-05-26. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ^ İsa Deveçeken (c. 2008). "Didin, yarı finalde veda etti" (in Turkish). hurriyet.com.tr. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ^ "Murat Didin". euroleague.net. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ^ "Potada 35 yıl" (in Turkish). hurriyet.com.tr. 2001-10-13. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ^ "Murat Di̇di̇n". 2 June 2017.
- ^ "Frankfurt" (in Turkish). hurriyet.com.tr. c. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
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Beşiktaş (men's basketball) head coaches
- Cavit Altunay (1967–1970)
- Aydan Siyavuş (1970–1971)
- Ünal Büyükaycan (1971–1973)
- Cavit Altunay (1973–1974)
- Ateş Çubukçu & Tom Davis (1974–1975)
- Ateş Çubukçu & Tom Davis & Tanju Feyzioğlu (1975)
- Mehmet Baturalp (1975–1979)
- Fehmi Sadıkoğlu (1979–1958)
- Hurşit Baytok (1985–1986)
- Aydan Siyavuş (1986–1987)
- Hurşit Baytok (1987–1989)
- İren İmre (1989–1990)
- Mehmet Baturalp (1990–1991)
- İren İmre (1991-1993)
- Hakan Yavuz (1993–1994)
- Cem Akdağ (1994–1995)
- Tolga Tuğsavul (1995–1996)
- Erman Kunter (1996–1997)
- Ahmet Kandemir (1997–2003)
- İhsan Bayülken (2003–2005)
- Burak Bıyıktay (2005)
- Murat Didin (2005–2007)
- Ufuk Sarıca (2007)
- Ergin Ataman (2007-2008)
- Hakan Demir (2008-2009)
- Burak Bıyıktay (2009-2011)
- Ergin Ataman (2011-2012)
- Erman Kunter (2012-2013)
- Ahmet Kandemir (2013–2015)
- Henrik Dettmann (2015–2016)
- Yağızer Uluğ (2016)
- Ufuk Sarıca (2016-2018)
- Duško Ivanović (2018-2020)
- Burak Bıyıktay (2020)
- Ahmet Kandemir (2020–2022)
- Igor Miličić (2022–2023)
- Dušan Alimpijević (2023–present)
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.
