Aleksandar Svitlica

Aleksandar Svitlica

Player information
birthday	May 28, 1982
place of birth	Prijepolje , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Serbian Montenegrin
height	1.89 m
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-2000	Prijepolje RK
2000-2001	RK Budućnost Podgorica
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2001-2002	RK Rudar Pljevlja
2002-2004	RK Lovćen Cetinje
2004-2007	IF Guif
2007-2011	BM Granollers
2011-2018	GWD Minden
National team
Debut on	January 17, 2008 (for Montenegro )
against	Russia in Drammen
	Games (goals)
Serbia and Montenegro Montenegro	? (?) 30 (?)
As of October 2, 2018

Aleksandar Svitlica (born May 28, 1982 in Prijepolje , Yugoslavia ) is a former Serbian and Montenegrin handball player . He is 1.89 m tall, weighs 89 kg and was mostly used as a right winger.

Career

Aleksandar Svitlica started playing handball in his hometown Prijepolje. In 2000 he moved to neighboring Montenegro to Budućnost Podgorica, in 2001 to Rudar Pljevlja and finally in 2002 to RK Lovćen Cetinje , where he made his debut in the first Serbian-Montenegrin league and won the national cup in 2003. In 2004 he moved abroad for the first time, namely to IF Guif in Sweden. There he was one of the top performers and was elected to the All-Star Team of the Swedish League in 2007. He then moved to BM Granollers in the Spanish ASOBAL league . He has been under contract at GWD Minden since 2011. In 2012 he was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga. After Svitlica played with Minden in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2015/16 season, he then returned to the Bundesliga. At the end of the 2017/18 season, his contract was no longer renewed. Shortly before the end of the season, he tore a cruciate ligament, which forced him to retire because the cruciate ligament had to be removed after complications.

From 2003 to 2006 he played a number of international matches for the Serbian-Montenegrin national team . Originally born in Serbia, Svitlica also took on Montenegrin citizenship in 2006 and completed 30 international matches for the Montenegrin national team . He made his debut at the 2008 European Championships in Norway. With the junior national team of Yugoslavia he won bronze at the U-20 European Championship in Poland in 2002.

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2012/13	GWD Minden	Bundesliga	34	153	30th	123
2013/14	GWD Minden	Bundesliga	34	144	29	115
2012-2014	total	Bundesliga	68	297	59	238

Criminal trial

Svitlica was arrested in his apartment on November 16, 2017 on suspicion of aiding and abetting the trafficking of narcotics in not small quantities. Charges were brought against him on February 16, 2018. He was accused of having been involved in cocaine smuggling from South America to Germany by providing a five-figure sum of money. On August 31, 2018, Svitlica was sentenced by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court to a prison term of 18 months, which was suspended.

Web links

• Aleksandar Svitlica on the GWD Minden website
• Aleksandar Svitlica in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Riechmann, Marcus: Svitlica goes as a free man. The former handball professional from GWD Minden is found guilty of aiding and abetting in the Hamburg cocaine trial, but the sentence is suspended . In: Mindener Tageblatt , No. 205, September 4, 2018, p. 31.
2. ↑ ^{a b} gradprijepolje.com: Aleksandar Svitlica . As of October 2, 2018. (Serbian)
3. ↑ nw.de (Vahle, Björn): Suspected cocaine trafficking against GWD handball player Aleksandar Svitlica: lawyer denied. The Hamburg public prosecutor's office is investigating the 35-year-old for "aiding in the trade in narcotics in large quantities" . December 21, 2017, as of September 29, 2018.
4. ↑ ^{a b} westfalen-blatt.de (Althoff, Christian): Cocaine: indictment against Svitlica. GWD-Minden player is said to have smuggled large amounts of drugs . March 15, 2018, as of September 29, 2018.