Aleš Pajovič

Aleš Pajovič

Aleš Pajovič
Player information
birthday	January 6, 1979
place of birth	Celje , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Slovenian
height	1.98 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	HSG Graz
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2003	Celje Pivovarna Laško
2003-2009	BM Ciudad Real
2007-2007	→ THW Kiel (loan)
2009-2011	RK Celje
2011-2011	→ HC Shoppingcity Seiersberg (loan)
2011-2013	SC Magdeburg
2013-2015	TuS N-Lübbecke
2015-2018	HSG Graz
National team
	Games (goals)
Slovenia	181 (697)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2015-2019	HSG Graz
2019–	Austria
As of March 28, 2019

Aleš Pajovič (* January 6 ^A 1979 in Celje , Yugoslavia ) is a former Slovenian handball player . He is 1.98 m tall. He is currently working as a handball trainer.

Aleš Pajovič, who played for the Slovenian national team, was only used in the left backcourt .

Career

Aleš Pajovič began playing handball with the Slovenian series champion RK Celje in his hometown. There he played his first league games in 1997. With the men from the Slovenian Styria , he won the Slovenian Championship from 1998 to 2003 and the Slovenian Cup from 1998 to 2001. In 2003 he moved to the Spanish league ASOBAL to BM Ciudad Real . There he won the Spanish championship and the Copa ASOBAL in 2003/04, the Copa ASOBAL again in 2004/05, the Copa ASOBAL, the EHF Champions League and the European Club Championship in 2005/06 and the Spanish championship, the Copa ASOBAL and 2006/07 the club EM.

In the summer of 2007, however, a problem arose at Ciudad Real: with nine foreigners, the club had already exhausted the Spanish league's immigration restrictions and Pajovič had to take a seat in the stands as the tenth foreigner. Ciudad Real then offered him to change clubs; Pajovič initially stayed with the top club from the Castile-La Mancha region and hoped that Arpad Šterbik and Siarhei Rutenka would receive Spanish citizenship as soon as possible.

At the beginning of October 2007, Pajovič was loaned out by the German master THW Kiel until the end of 2007 to compensate for Nikola Karabatić and Filip Jícha 's injuries. After the loan business ended, he moved back to Ciudad Real and won the Spanish championship, the Spanish cup, the Spanish Supercup, the Copa ASOBAL and the EHF Champions League this season. In the 2008/09 season he again won the championship and the EHF Champions League with Ciudad Real. Then he returned to Celje.

For the spring season 2011 Aleš Pajovič was awarded to HC Shoppingcity Seiersberg (Austria) to help them move up to the handball league Austria. For the 2011/12 season he moved to SC Magdeburg . After the winter break of 2012/13 he moved to TuS N-Lübbecke, where he played until 2015. He then signed a contract with the Austrian club HSG Graz , where he was active as a player-coach until the 2017/18 season .

For the 2018/19 season Pajovič was only employed as a trainer in Graz. The Slovenian surprisingly led the team into the bonus round this season and qualified the team early for the quarter-finals of the spusu league .

In March 2019 Pajovič was presented as coach of the Austrian men's national handball team.

Aleš Pajovič has played 181 international matches for the Slovenian national team . With Slovenia he reached the finals at the 2004 European Championships in his own country, but lost to the German team there. For the 2007 World Cup in Germany, Pajovič canceled due to disputes with the Slovenian national coach; at the European Championships in 2008 , however, he ran again for his country. He took part in the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004 with Slovenia .

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2007/08	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	12	29	0	29
2011/12	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	32	101	0	101
2012/13	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	15th	22nd	0	22nd
2012/13	TuS N-Lübbecke	Bundesliga	14th	50	0	50
2013/14	TuS N-Lübbecke	Bundesliga	33	111	0	111
2014/15	TuS N-Lübbecke	Bundesliga	27	20th	0	20th
2007-2015	total	Bundesliga	133	333	0	333

Web links

Commons : Aleš Pajovič  - collection of images

• Aleš Pajovič on the THW Kiel website
• Aleš Pajovič in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Aleš Pajovič in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

annotation

^A.according to his own statement, it is January 6th. However, there are different information about the birthday. At TuS N-Lübbecke, at the Slovenian handball association and at Sports-Reference.com, January 6th is specified, at THW Kiel and the EHF, therefore, June 1st is incorrect.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Večna lestvica nastopov za reprezentanco , List of Slovenian national players (February 26, 1992 to January 13, 2014), accessed on May 9, 2014
2. ↑ sg-flensburg-handewitt.dk: Champions League: The start is getting closer ...
3. ↑ HC Shoppingcity Seiersberg lands transfer coup!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Handball.at  
4. ↑ Surprising newcomer at SC Magdeburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , handball-world.com on April 27, 2011  
5. ↑ Lübbecke becomes active again and brings back players from league rivals , handball-world.com on February 12, 2013
6. ↑ hsggraz.at: Ales Pajovic back at the HSG!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 19, 2015  
7. ↑ Ale¨ Pajovič is the new ÖHB men's team manager. In: oehb.at. March 28, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019 . 
8. ↑ [1] , accessed on January 9, 2020
9. ↑ Osebne izkaznice Reprezentantje , accessed on October 31, 2013