Bojana Popović

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Bojana Popović
Player information
birthday November 20, 1979
place of birth Niš , Yugoslavia
citizenship MontenegrinMontenegrin Montenegrin
height 1.85 m
Playing position Back left
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1989-1998 Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro ŽRK Din Niš
1998-2002 Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
2002-2007 DenmarkDenmark Slagelse DT
2007-2010 DenmarkDenmark Viborg HK
2010–2012 MontenegroMontenegro ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
National team
  Games (goals)
Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro Montenegro
MontenegroMontenegro 		? (?)
52 (199)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2016–2016 MontenegroMontenegro Montenegro (interim trainer)
2016– MontenegroMontenegro Montenegro (assistant trainer)

As of September 30, 2016

Bojana Popović (born November 20, 1979 in Niš , SFR Yugoslavia ; born Bojana Petrović ) is a former Montenegrin national handball player who last played for the Montenegrin first division club ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica and the national team of Montenegro . She has been sports director at Budućnost Podgorica since the 2012/13 season. In August 2016, she took over the interim coaching position for the Montenegrin national team. Since September 2016 she has been an assistant trainer for the Montenegrin selection.

Career

Bojana Popović started playing handball at ŽRK Din Niš in 1989. From 1996 to 1998 she ran for the women's team of Din Niš. She then played four seasons at Budućnost Podgorica, with whom she won four championships and three cup wins.

In 2002 Bojana Popović moved to Slagelse DT, trained by Anja Andersen . With Slagelse, the backcourt player won three Champions League titles, three Danish championships, an EHF cup and a Danish cup in the following five years . In the summer of 2007 she moved to the Danish club Viborg HK , with which she was also able to win a large number of titles. In 2010 Popović moved back to her homeland for private reasons and then played again for Budućnost Podgorica. After the 2011/12 season, she ended her career.

Popović played over 100 international matches for the Yugoslav and Serbian-Montenegrin national teams. The greatest success was 3rd place at the 2001 World Cup in Italy. In the summer of 2012, she took part in the Olympic Games in London with Montenegro , where she won the silver medal. She was also elected to the tournament's All-Star Team. For Montenegro she scored 199 goals in 52 international matches. Although Popović did not play handball for four years, she was appointed to the Montenegrin squad for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by the then national coach Dragan Adžić . She wore the flag of Montenegro at the opening of the Olympic Games on August 5, 2016 and scored four goals in three games over the course of the tournament.

Private

In 2004 she married the professional basketball player Petar Popović. She gave birth to a daughter on December 4, 2013.

successes

  • Yugoslav Championship 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
  • Yugoslav Cup 2000, 2001, 2002
  • Danish Championship 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Danish Cup 2003, 2007, 2008
  • Montenegrin Championship 2011, 2012
  • Montenegrin Cup 2011, 2012
  • EHF Cup 2003
  • Champions League 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012
  • 3rd place at the 2001 World Cup
  • Silver medal at the 2012 Olympics

Honors

  • Champions League top scorer 2004, 2005, 2007
  • Player of the Year (Denmark) 2004, 2005, 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ihf.info: Team Roster , accessed on August 16, 2016
  2. ↑ a b ihf.info: Cumulative Statistics , accessed on August 16, 2016
  3. ↑ handball-world.com: New job for Bojana Popovic
  4. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Popovic is Montenegro's new national coach , accessed on August 30, 2016
  5. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Montenegro: Old new coach and without seven Rio drivers , accessed on September 30, 2016
  6. ↑ eurohandball.com: Bojana Popović - Her career statistics
  7. ↑ ekstrabladet.dk: Popovic forlader Viborg og rejser hjem , accessed on August 30, 2018
  8. ↑ handball-world.com: Podgorica after CL victory with personnel decisions
  9. ↑ www.london2012.com: Bojana Popović ( memento of August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 31, 2012
  10. ↑ handball-planet.com: OG 2012 Women's ALL STAR TEAM decided: Marta Mangue best playmaker, Grimsbo goalkeeper , accessed on August 30, 2018
  11. ↑ www.rtcg.me: Adžić objavio spisak za Rio , accessed on July 16, 2016
  12. ↑ www.handball-planet.com: Bojana Popovic becomes a mother! , accessed December 9, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Popović, Bojana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Montenegrin handball player and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Niš , SFR Yugoslavia