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Fundamentals first. Always.
No trending drills for the sake of it. Every session builds the basics pros still work on every day.
Built on real careers.
Run for real players.
Skills Academy started on a court in Montenegro, built by a coach who spent 22 years playing professional basketball across Europe. Every drill, every standard, every session comes from that.
22Years playing
pro basketball
pro basketball
12Years coaching
young players
young players
3Championship
titles
titles
5Countries competed
professionally
professionally
The Founder
From the pro court to your player’s development.
Savo Djikanovic played 22 professional seasons across Europe — Budućnost, Olympiacos, Hemofarm, Igokea, ETHA Cyprus — winning titles and learning under elite coaches at every level.
When he retired, he built the academy he wished had existed: real structure, real standards, real-game knowledge. Twelve years later, that academy is one of Montenegro’s most respected youth programmes — and now it’s online.
Yugoslav Cup Champion
ABA League Champion
Cyprus National Champion
Savo Djikanovic
Founder & Head Coach · 22-year pro career
The Journey
How we got here.
1993 – 2015
22 seasons of pro basketball
Montenegro, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Cyprus — titles won, standards learned.
2014
The academy opens
Savo starts coaching young players in Podgorica with one goal: a real standard to train to.
2014 – 2026
Reputation built on results
Twelve years of in-person coaching. Players advance to national-team pathways.
Today
Skills Academy goes online
Same standards, same staff — now on any player’s phone, anywhere.
Behind The Platform
The builder who took it global.
Andrija Djikanovic grew up inside Skills Academy — and saw the ceiling nobody named: all of that coaching was trapped inside one city.
So he spent two years designing and engineering this platform from scratch — the product, the programme structure, every system that puts a coach’s method onto a player’s phone. A builder who speaks both basketball and software — that combination is what makes this academy possible.
Built the platform from scratch
Product & systems design
Digital founder
Andrija Djikanovic
Digital Founder · Platform Architect
What We Stand For
Three things we never compromise on.
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Real standards, not empty praise
We set the bar where real development demands it. That’s how players actually improve — not just feel like they are.
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Character before stats
Discipline, accountability, work ethic. We coach the skill and the person behind it.
Train with people who’ve actually done it.
22 years of professional experience. 12 years of developing real players. Your player deserves the real thing.
