Dane Šijan

Dane Šijan

Dane Šijan on September 9, 2007 in the Kölnarena
Player information
birthday	5th February 1977
place of birth	Sabac , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Serbian
height	1.95 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Mors-Thy Håndbold
Jersey number	1
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1991-1998	Metaloplastika Šabac
1998-1999	Prolet Zrenjanin
1999-2000	Rudar Pljevlja
2000-2001	Eporsid
2001-2004	Partizan Belgrade
2004-2005	IF Guif
2005-2007	Viborg HK
2007-2008	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2008–2012	Viborg HK
2012-2014	Bjerringbro-Silkeborg
2014–	Mors-Thy Håndbold
National team
Debut on	1997
	Games (goals)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro Serbia	56 (0)
As of: national team February 18, 2009

Dane Šijan ( Serbian - Cyrillic Дане Шијан ; born February 5, 1977 in Šabac , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian handball goalkeeper . He is 1.95 m tall and weighs 120 kg.

Šijan, who plays for Mors-Thy Håndbold and plays for the Serbian national team, always plays as a goalkeeper .

Dane Šijan began playing handball at the top domestic club Metaloplastika Šabac , where he finally made his debut in the Serbian first division. There he was always one of the top players in the Serbian league; In 1997, however, he was seriously injured in a car accident, was on sick leave for eight months and thus lost his regular position. He then moved frequently in the Serbian league: 1998 to Proleter Zrenjanin , 1999 to Rudar Pljevlja, 2000 to Eporsid. Only in 2001 did he find a long-term new employer in Partizan Belgrade : In 2002, 2003 and 2004 he was elected Serbian champions and in 2002 and 2003 the best goalkeeper in the league. In 2004 he moved to IF Guif in Sweden in search of a new challenge , where he was also chosen as the league's best goalkeeper. After only one season he went to Denmark to join Viborg HK. There he was voted best goalkeeper in 2006 and won the Danish runner-up in 2007. In autumn 2006, Šijan had already signed a three-year contract from July 2007 at SG Flensburg-Handewitt , where he was to succeed Jan Holpert . After only one season he left Flensburg at his own request. From the 2008/09 season, Šijan played again in Viborg. In the summer of 2012, Šijan moved to league rivals Bjerringbro-Silkeborg . In the summer of 2014 he joined Mors-Thy Håndbold . In the 2016/17 season he is under contract with the Romanian club HC Dobrogea Sud Constanța.

Despite well-known competition such as Dejan Perić and Arpad Šterbik, Šijan has so far played 56 international matches for the Serbian men's handball team and the predecessor team from Serbia-Montenegro. In his country's only international success, the bronze medal at the 1999 World Cup , he probably did not take part due to the aftermath of his car accident.

Web links

• Dane Šijan in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Profile of Dane Šijan at Viborg HK ( Memento from November 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handball Week , Issue No. 31, Volume 53, Page 7
2. ↑ www.dr.dk: Sijan afløser Landin i BSV , accessed on May 21, 2012
3. ↑ www.hbold.dk: Dane Sijan til MTH ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 25, 2014  
4. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Ex-Flensburg's Sijan is moving to Romania , accessed on June 19, 2016