 From summer 2002 onward, the project called "Evropska Zvezda" (The European Red Star) was thought up in order to slowly and methodically return the club on the path of its former glory by achieving results that would see the club play EuroLeague again.To that end, new management hired Slovenian coach Zmago Sagadin who became the Zvezda's organizational centerpiece.In his first season, Sagadin did not actually coach the team (the formal head coach role was given to Aleksandar Trifunović), but he did make all the important personnel decisions from the role of a sporting director.