{"id":509171,"date":"2022-11-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/nikola-vujcic-announced-his-departure-at-the-end-of-the-season\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:53:59","slug":"nikola-vujcic-announced-his-departure-at-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/nikola-vujcic-announced-his-departure-at-the-end-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Vujcic announced his departure at the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ODu1ZL-ub_Q\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; \"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">After 16 years in Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, six as a player and 10 more as a sporting director, Nikola Vujcic will be leaving the club at the end of the season. The Croatian announced his surprising departure today (Friday) in an emotional press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;Last year, my daughter left Israel to study in England, and my son left with my wife and joined my basketball academy in Croatia&#8221;, shared Vujcic. &#8220;My heart is yellow, but being alone without my family next to me was too much for me. Emotionally and mentally. This is why I decided that at the end of this season, I will take a break and not continue with Maccabi.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/nik1.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-521619 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/nik1.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/nik1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/nik1-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><br \/> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I decided to share this now and not keep it a secret until the end of the season because I feel I have an obligation to be open and honest with Maccabi&rsquo;s owners, the media, and most importantly the fans &#8211; which deserve this kind of transparency.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;We still have a whole season in front of us, and I will give all of my heart and soul for Maccabi until the last game&#8221;, added Vujcic, who is considered one of the best centers that ever played for the Yellows. &#8220;I will never forget the 16 years I had with the club. It was an unbelievable time, a rollercoaster of emotions. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be back in the future&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/owners.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-521620 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/owners.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/owners-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/owners-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/niko-ami.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-521621 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/niko-ami.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/niko-ami-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/niko-ami-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellows&#8217; sporting director revealed in an emotional press conference that he will say goodbye to Maccabi after 16 years: &#8220;My heart is yellow, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be back in the future&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":521618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-509171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509171"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526678,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509171\/revisions\/526678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509171"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=509171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}