Ljubomir Vranjes
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Nickname | "Ljubo" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 3rd October 1973 (age 46) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Gothenburg , Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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height | 1.66 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Back center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Throwing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1989-1992 |
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1992-1999 |
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1999-2001 |
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2001-2006 |
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2006-2009 |
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Debut on | November 27, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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165 (451) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2010-2017 |
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5/2013–10/2013 |
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2017-10 / 2018 |
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2017-10 / 2018 |
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3 / 2019– |
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12 / 2019– |
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As of May 9, 2020 |
Ljubomir Vranjes (born October 3, 1973 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish handball coach and former Swedish national handball player . Despite his height of 1.66 m for a handball player, he played in the middle of the backcourt position . He currently works as a coach for the Swedish first division club IFK Kristianstad and for the Slovenian national team.
Career
As a player
Until 1989 Vranjes played at Kortedala IF . From there he moved to his hometown Gothenburg, where he played for Redbergslids IK until 1999 and was Swedish champion five times. Then his path took him to the Spanish league ASOBAL to BM Granollers , where he played two seasons before continuing his career at HSG Nordhorn . With Nordhorn he became German runner-up in 2002 and reached the Final Four of the DHB Cup in 2002 and 2005 . In 2006 Vranjes switched to SG Flensburg-Handewitt, with whom he again reached the Final Four of the DHB Cup in 2007 , but was eliminated in the semifinals against THW Kiel . Also in 2007 he was in the final of the Champions League with Flensburg , where the SG again lost to the THW in a German-German final. In 2009 he ended his career as a player.
Vranjes played 165 international matches for the Swedish national team, in which he scored 451 goals, and with which he participated in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , where the team won the silver medal. He also was charged with Sweden 1999 world champion and 1998 , 2000 and 2002 European champion .
As a trainer
Originally, Ljubomir Vranjes wanted to go back to Sweden with his wife Maria and his two children in 2009 to become a coach at the first division club IFK Skövde HK . However, he dissolved the contract and took over the position of team manager in Flensburg in the summer of 2009 . In November 2010, after the leave of absence of the Flensburg trainer Per Carlén, he also took over the coaching position at SG Flensburg-Handewitt. In 2012 Flensburg won the European Cup Winners' Cup , in 2014 the EHF Champions League against THW Kiel, against whom Vranjes had lost as a player seven years earlier, and in 2015 the DHB Cup in the fifth attempt , after SG under his leadership from 2011 to 2014 reached the cup final four times in a row but lost each time. 2017 he was appointed by the Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Daniel Guenther with the Sport badge of Schleswig-Holstein excellent.
From May 2013 to October 2013 he also coached the Serbian national team .
For the 2017/18 season he moved to the Hungarian handball club Telekom Veszprém . In addition, he took over as coach of the Hungarian national team in the summer of 2017 . The cooperation with the handball club KC Veszprém ended prematurely on October 1st, 2018. A few days later the Hungarian handball association also split from him. Since March 11, 2019, he has been coaching the Swedish first division club IFK Kristianstad . In December 2019, he also took on the role of coach of the Slovenian national team .
Others
Vranjes is of Serbian descent. His hobby is photography. In 2007 he was involved as a photographer in the creation of the SG Flensburg-Handewitt team calendar.
successes
- as a player
- Swedish champion 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
- Swedish League Cup 1996, 1997, 1998
- World Champion 1999
- European champion in 1998, 2000 and 2002
- Silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games
- 2007 Champions League finalist
- as a trainer
- European Cup Winner 2012
- DHB Supercup 2013
- EHF Champions League 2014
- IHF Trainer of the Year 2014
- DHB Cup Winner 2015
Web links
- Website of Ljubomir Vranjes (English)
- Ljubomir Vranjes on the website of SG Flensburg-Handewitt
- Ljubomir Vranjes in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
- Ljubomir Vranjes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Ljubomir Vranjes in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ^ Match statistics Ljubomir Vranjes. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved May 9, 2020 (Swedish).
- ↑ sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed May 9, 2020 (Swedish).
- ↑ Flensburg leaves Carlén - Vranje's successor on November 11, 2010, accessed on June 4, 2014
- ↑ Sports plaque to Ljubomir Vranjes and Dr. Tim Rausche awarded: Prime Minister Günther: “Advancing sport as a team effort”. In: schleswig-holstein.de. July 10, 2017, accessed April 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Serbia: Serbia names Vranjes as the new national coach - Flensburg denied May 24, 2013, accessed on June 4, 2014
- ↑ Serbia presents new national coach from October 30, 2013, accessed on June 4, 2014
- ↑ handball-world.com: Vranjes officially until 2020 in Veszprem from February 1, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2017
- ↑ handball-world.news: Ljubomir Vranjes will be Hungary's national coach from February 2, 2017, accessed on April 28, 2019
- ↑ handball-world.news: Veszprem pulls the ripcord: Off for head coach Vranjes and sports director Eklemovics from October 1, 2018, accessed on October 1, 2018
- ↑ handball-world.news: Ljubomir Vranjes released his second dismissal within a week on October 5, 2018, accessed on October 5, 2018
- ↑ handball-world.news: Ljubomir Vranjes signs long-term contract with IFK Kristianstad on January 31, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2019
- ↑ handball-world.news: Ljubomir Vranjes will be the national coach of Slovenia from December 17, 2019, accessed on December 17, 2019
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Interview with Ljubomir Vranjes from April 29, 2007, accessed on June 4, 2014
- ↑ sg-flensburg-handewitt.de: The “Red Sofa”: handball stars chat about personal issues from September 13, 2007, accessed on June 4, 2014
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SURNAME | Vranjes, Ljubomir |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ljubo (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish handball player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd October 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gothenburg , Sweden |