Dragan Travica

Dragan Travica
2010 in Piacenza
portrait
Date of birth	August 28, 1986
place of birth	Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
size	2.00 m
position	passing
societies
2000–2002 2002–2003 2003–2005 2005–2006 2006–2008 2008–2009 2009–2011 2011–2013 since 2013	Sisley Treviso Sira Falconara Pallavolo Modena Premier Hotels Crema Sparkling Milano Pallavolo Modena Acqua Paradiso Monza Lube Macerata VK Lokomotiv-Belogorje
National team
since 2007	A national team
successes
2011 2012 2012 2014	Vice European champion Italian champion Olympic bronze Champions League winner
As of August 14, 2012

Dragan Travica ( Serbian : Драган Травица; born August 28, 1986 in Zagreb , SFR Yugoslavia ) is an Italian volleyball player .

Career

Dragan Travica is the son of Yugoslav trainer Ljubomir Travica . He began his career in 2000 in the offspring of Sisley Treviso . In 2002/2003 he played for the third division club Sira Falconara before he was signed by the first division club Pallavolo Modena . After a year in the second division at Premier Hotels Crema , he joined the also underclass team Sparkling Milano in 2006 , but with whom he made promotion the following year. On November 11, 2007, the setter made his debut in the Italian national team . In 2008/2009 he was again active in Modena before moving to Acqua Paradiso Monza . In 2011 he reached the final of the European Championship with Italy . He then came to his current club, Lube Macerata . There he won the Italian championship in the first season. In 2012 he won the bronze medal with the national team at the Olympic Games in London . Travica moved to the Russian club VK Lokomotiv-Belogorje for the 2013/14 season and won the Champions League with the team .

Web links

Commons : Dragan Travica  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dragan Travica in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile at legavolley.it (Italian)