Mr. Kotleba`s basketball career was the
following:
1960 - 1968 - a player,
1968 - 1970 - a coach,
1970 - 1975 - a team manager,
1963 - 1975 – a referee on national
level,
1975 - 1989 - an international referee (
FIBA )
Mr. Kotleba became a Central Board
member of Slovak basketball federation
in 1972, and since 1981 he was a Central
Board member of Czechoslovak basketball
federation.
Since 1989 till now Mr. Kotleba is a
FIBA full-time staff. ( FIBA Sport
Director )
Mr.Kotleba officiated 4015 games, three
Olympic Games ( two finals), five World
Championships, twelve European
Champioships, six championships of other
continents and ten European Club
Competitions finals.
As a commissioner he officiated five
Olympic Games, twenty two World
Championships, twenty one European
Championships and about 100 European
Club Competitions games.
Besides as a FIBA lecturer he
participated in 96 referee clinics in 57
countries of five continents.
Mr. Kotleba will be an instructor at
Basketball Referee’s Clinic “East Meets
West 2006”