Abas Arslanagic

Abas Arslanagic

Player information
Nickname	“Giant with seven arms; Octopus "
birthday	October 2, 1944
place of birth	Derventa , SFR Yugoslavia
citizenship	Bosnian-Herzegovinian
height	1.92 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1958–1962	RK Partizan Derventa
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1962-1963	RK Partizan Belgrade
1963-1976	RK Borac Banja Luka
1976-1977	TuS Nettelstedt
National team
Debut on	March 27, 1969 in Ljubljana
against	Germany
	Games (goals)
Yugoslavia	125 (1)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1972-1988	RK Borac Banja Luka (Youth)
1978-1980	RK Bosnamontaža
1981-1981	Yugoslavia (Juniors)
1982-1986	Yugoslavia (goalkeeping coach)
1986-1988	Yugoslavia (head coach)
1987-1988	Metaloplastika Šabac
1988-1994	Qatar
1995-1996	Croatia
1995-1996	RK Zagreb
1996-1998	RK Krško
2000-2001	RK Zvečevo
2001-2002	SG Handball West Vienna
2002-2003	RK Bosna Sarajevo
9 / 2002-10 / 2003	Bosnia and Herzegovina
0000-0000	RK Medveščak Zagreb
0000-2008	RK Borac Banja Luka
2013–	Qatar (Juniors)
As of February 10, 2014

Abas Arslanagić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Абас Арсланагић ; born October 2, 1944 in Derventa , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian handball coach and former handball goalkeeper . He is considered one of the best goalkeepers of the 1970s and has trained numerous world-class goalkeepers.

Player career

Abas Arslanagić began playing handball at the age of fourteen in his hometown at RK Partizan Derventa . At 18 he moved to RK Partizan Belgrade . Just a year later he signed with RK Borac Banja Luka . With Borac he was four times Yugoslav champion and five times cup winner. In 1975 he reached the final of the European Champion Clubs' Cup . The crowning glory of his club career was winning the 1975/76 European Cup . In the 1976/77 season he played for the German Bundesliga club TuS Nettelstedt .

In the Yugoslav national team , the 1.92 m tall goalkeeper made his debut on March 27, 1969 in Ljubljana against Germany . A year later he won the bronze medal at the 1970 World Cup . At the 1972 Olympic Games , he became Olympic champion. At the 1974 World Cup , he won bronze again. At the 1976 Olympic Games , he finished 5th.

Due to his strength in penalty throws, he was nicknamed "Gigant with seven arms" and "Octopus goalkeeper".

Coaching career

Initially, he coached the Borac youth team around players like Zlatko Saračević and the Mladost women's team in Banja Luka during his playing days . He was also the coach of clubs in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. With Metaloplastika Šabac he was Yugoslavian champion, with RK Zagreb Croatian champion and cup winner, with RK Bosna Sarajevo he won the Bosnian championship and the cup, with Borac Banja Luka again the cup.

As coach of the Yugoslav junior national team, he won the world championship in 1981. As a goalkeeping coach of the senior national team, he became vice world champion in 1982 and world champion in 1986 . He then became the head coach of the selection and won the bronze medal at the 1988 Olympic Games . From 1988 to 1994 he coached the Qatar selection , with which he was fourth at the 1991 Asian Handball Championship . With the Croatian national team he took part in the 1996 European Championship . In 2003 he was the head coach of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national team . He has been in charge of Qatar's junior team since 2013.

As a goalkeeper coach, he trained numerous international goalkeepers, such as a. Mirko Bašić , Zlatan Arnautović , Valter Matošević , Vlado Šola , Enid Tahirović , Gorazd Škof and Venio Losert .

Abas Arslanagić works as a goalkeeper coach in summer camps for young handball players. Since August 2013 he has been a board member at Borac Banja Luka.

successes

As a player

• Olympic champion 1972
• Bronze at the World Championships in 1970 and 1974
• Best goalkeeper of the 1970 World Cup
• European Champion Clubs' Cup 1976
• Yugoslav champion 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976
• Yugoslav Cup Winner 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975
• 2 × appointed to the world selection

As a trainer

• Gold at the Junior World Championship in 1981
• Silver at the 1982 World Cup
• Gold at the 1986 World Cup
• Bronze at the 1988 Olympic Games
• Yugoslav Champion 1988
• Croatian champion and cup winner 1996
• Bosnian-Herzegovinian champion 2003
• Bosnian-Herzegovinian cup winner 2003 and 2007

Others

Arslanagić holds a diploma from the Faculty of Sport at the University of Sarajevo. He is also the author of numerous handball books, especially about goalkeeping techniques.

He is married for the second time. His daughter Maida Arslanagić (* 1984) is a Croatian national handball player.

Web links

• Official website (Croatian)
• Abas Arslanagić in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Detailed report on the legend Abas Arslanagić (Croatian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olimpijski pobjednici ( Memento from October 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 10, 2014 (Bosnian)
2. ↑ www.rkborac.rs.ba RK Borac 1976. godine pokorio Evropu ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 10, 2014 (Bosnian)
3. ↑ www.nw-news.de "Show who is the stronger" from March 16, 2013, accessed on April 25, 2014
4. ↑ www.handball-goalkeeper.com Team ( memento from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 10, 2014.
5. ↑ www.handball-world.com Ex-Wetzlarer Golic now club official from August 28, 2013.