The coach that brought Slovenia their biggest success in history, the Silver Medal on the European Championship in 2004, Tone Tiselj, will lead his team Celje Pivovarna Lasko for two more games (until the end of this year), and will then leave the club. That's the epilogue of the mutual agreement to cancel the cooperation between Celje and Tone, who managed to make one of the weakest performances with Celje since independence making them 4th placed last year, but this year has 12 wins in a row. The wish of the clubowners was that he remains until the end of the season, but Tone wanted to leave at halfseason.

As Celje say in their announcement, they will try to get the former Kiel coach, now Slovenia's national coach, Zvonimir Serdarusic as their new coach, as rumours spread the days before the announcement. The place of 'sporting director' would come the Celje legend, Roman Pungartnik, who is currently the director of the national team and with 'Noka' Serdarusic, tries to do everything possible that Slovenia reaches the 2nd round at the upcoming EC, in a very strong competition with Germany, Poland and Sweden.