Referee since 1985, FIBA Referee 1993-2005, Euroleague Referee 2000-2003.
1993 – Attended Nationwide NCAA Officiating Camps
2003 – EuroBasket in Sweden
2004 – FIBA Europe League F4
2005 – FIBA Europe Cup F4
2005 – 2015 Competition and Referee Dept FIBA Europe, becoming Head of these departments in 2010
2015 – Present Director of Officiating, Euroleague Basketball.
Mr Koralewski was born in Poland and got his education in electrical engineering.
1967 – became a referee
1979 – became FIBA referee
1998 – finished career as referee
During his 19-year-long career, he officiated more than 500 international games, including:
Olympic Qualification Tournaments: in 1988, 1992, 1996;
Over 300 Euro Cup games, including the final matches of FIBA Korać Cup and of Euroleague Women;
EuroBasket Women in 1989 and 1991;
EuroBasket 1997;
U19 World Championship for Women 1993;
Women’s World Cup 1994;
Games at several FIBA Asia Championships and Arab Nations Basketball Championship;
1998 – became FIBA Commissioner and a National FIBA Instructor
As a commissioner, he participated in the FIBA World Championship in 2008, 2010, 2014, as well as the Basketball Tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Instructor at many referee clinics in Russia, Lithuania, Sweden, and Poland.
He also holds a title of a FIBA Honorary Referee.
From season 2016/2017 VTB league Referees Director.
Currently a coach of Euroleague Referees.
Michał was born in Poland in 1980 in Warsaw. He started to play basketball in the age of 10 and officiated first game 2 years later.
Career highlights:
Referee since 2001
Top Polish league since 2013
FIBA referee 2015
Universiade 2017
Basketball Champions League season 2016/17
Participated in REFEREE.PL camp 2013
Born in Novi Sad in Serbia in 1978.
Basketball player – 1988-1999 – ŽKK “Vojvodina” and National team of Yugoslavia
Triple MVP in U16 and U18 categories
Referee career highlights:
– 1998 – became a referee
– 2003 – National Referee in Serbia
– 2005 – become an International Referee – FIBA Clinic in Antalya
– 2005 – Euroleague Women and FIBA Cup Women
– 2008 – Euroleague Men, ULEB Cup and Adriatic league
– Final Four – 2007(Moscow) and 2015(Prague), and F8 2014 (Ekaterinburg)
– European Woman Championship 2007(Italy), 2009 (Latvia), 2013(France), 2015(Romania-Hungary)
– 2007 – World Championship U19 Men (Serbia), and U19 Women (Slovakia)
– The Olympic Games in Beijing China 2008
– Qualifications for Olympic games in 2012 (Turkey) and 2016 (France)
– World Championship for Woman in Turkey 2014
– African Championship for Woman in Cameroon 2015
Born in Serbia, 04.09.1964.
Referee: since 1979
National Top league 23 seasons, since 1991
FIBA referee 21 seasons, since 1993
Euroleague 5 seasons
Euroleague women F8
Retired as referee 2014
FIBA Europe Referee Instructor since 2015
Euroleague Observer since 2015
National Instructor and President of Serbian Referee Committee since 2015
Mr Dožai was born in 1969 in Split (Croatia).
Referee: from 1983
CROATIAN National referee: from 1988
FIBA Referee: from 1993
EUROLEAGUE Referee 2001 – 2016
Career highlights:
F4: 2004. Tel Aviv (3rd place)
F4: 2008. Madrid (FINAL)
Eurocup F4: 2010. Vitoria (3rd place)
FIBA F4 women 2000. Ruzomberok (3rd place)
FIBA ECR women 2001. Schio (Schio-Adana)
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2012. Turkey
EUROBASKET 2013. Lithuania
EUROBASKET 2015. Slovenia
VTB LEAGUE F4 Lithuania
ADRIATIC LEAGUE Finals
CROATIAN NATIONAL LEAGUE Finals
CROATIAN NATIONAL CUP Finals – 16 times
Born in 1964 in Romania. Mr Vinaşi Doru is marries and has 3 kids. He studied Mechanical Engineering, and started to play basketball in junior team in Cluj-Napoca.
Became a referee 1992
National league 1994
FIBA licence 1997
Mr Doru finished his career as active referee in 2014, and from 2015 he is a National FIBA Instructor.
Highlights of referee’s career:
Marius Ciulin is coming from Constanca in Romania, was born in 1977.
He is married and has 2 kids.
Referee since 1995
National First League 1999
FIBA 2003
Euroleague Referee 2007
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2005 Eurobasket Women TURKEY
2007 Eurobasket Women ITALY
2009 Eurobasket Women LATVIA
2011 Eurobasket Men LITHUANIA
2013 Eurobasket Men SLOVENIA
2007 World Championship U19 Women Slovakia
2010 World Championship U17 Men Germany
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. RIDVAN EKMEKCI, MA, PhD
Psychological Performance Consultant
Professor Ridvan Ekmekçi was born in Istanbul, he earned bachelor degree on Physical Education and Sport Teacher, Master and PhD on Sport Management. He was a basketball player till 1994 then he became basketball referee in 1994. He went to Australia-Sydney in 1999 and he was ABA, NSW and WNBL Basketball referee, he also was an observer and coach for young referees at Sydney. He worked for Turkish Basketball Federation between 2001 and 2003 as sport expert and responsible person for referee education programs. He officiated many national and international games in Turkey and Australia. His doctoral thesis on Basketball referees source of stress and coping style. He has a book name of “Successful Psychological Officiating”. In 2011 he went to Florida University and fallowing year Cologne, German Sport University as visitor researcher for post-doctoral studies. He researched on IMG Sports Academy of the business model, The Disney World – Orlando, ESPN Wide World of Sport management structure, Miami Heat NBA basketball team management and marketing system. He has some articles on sport management systems in Australia, USA and Europe. He has books on Sport Management.
He became Technical Commissioner, coach and observer in 2012 and delegate for Euroleague in 2013. He selected as an academic committee member for project of “Sports and Olympic Volunteers” which was carried with Turkish National Olympic Committee and UNICEF. He was a coordinator and educator for 2013 FIFA U20 World Championship, 2014 World Handball School Championship, 2015 World School Orienteering Championship volunteer education programs. He has many scientific papers and presentations on sport management, psychological performance, sources of stress and coping style and motivation.
He coaches young referees, athletes and students to improve their psychological performance, also he gives seminars about volunteering, team work and communication. Prof. Ekmekçi is married with two kids. He likes to play basketball and golf. He works for Pamukkale University as Head of Sport Management Department.
Turkish
Born 05.11.1979
Referee since 1996
Turkish Basketball League Referee since 2003
Passed FIBA Clinic in 2005 in Antalya
Euroleague Referee since 2012