Ljubomir Vranjes

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Ljubomir Vranjes
Ljubomir Vranjes

Ljubomir Vranjes (2016)

Player information
Nickname "Ljubo"
birthday 3rd October 1973 (age 46)
place of birth Gothenburg , Sweden
citizenship SwedeSwede Swedish
height 1.66 m
Playing position Back center
Throwing hand right
Club information
society SwedenSweden IFK Kristianstad Slovenia
SloveniaSlovenia 
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
0000-1989 SwedenSweden Kortedala IF
1989-1992 SwedenSweden Redbergslids IK
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1992-1999 SwedenSweden Redbergslids IK
1999-2001 SpainSpain BM Granollers
2001-2006 GermanyGermany HSG Nordhorn
2006-2009 GermanyGermany SG Flensburg-Handewitt
National team
Debut on November 27, 1996
against JapanJapan Japan in Nagoya
  Games (goals)
SwedenSweden Sweden 165 (451)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2010-2017 GermanyGermany SG Flensburg-Handewitt
5/2013–10/2013 SerbiaSerbia Serbia
2017-10 / 2018 HungaryHungary Telecom Veszprém
2017-10 / 2018 HungaryHungary Hungary
3 / 2019– SwedenSweden IFK Kristianstad
12 / 2019– SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Championship 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
European Championship 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Medals

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

September 2007: Ljubomir Vranjes throwing a goal during a Bundesliga match at VfL Gummersbach
November 2017: Vranjes (far right) during a break with Telekom Veszprém at the CL away game at PSG Handball

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
as a trainer

Web links

Commons : Ljubomir Vranjes  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Match statistics Ljubomir Vranjes. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved May 9, 2020 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed May 9, 2020 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Flensburg leaves Carlén - Vranje's successor on November 11, 2010, accessed on June 4, 2014
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ↑ Serbia: Serbia names Vranjes as the new national coach - Flensburg denied May 24, 2013, accessed on June 4, 2014
  6. ↑ Serbia presents new national coach from October 30, 2013, accessed on June 4, 2014
  7. ↑ handball-world.com: Vranjes officially until 2020 in Veszprem from February 1, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2017
  8. ↑ handball-world.news: Ljubomir Vranjes will be Hungary's national coach from February 2, 2017, accessed on April 28, 2019
  9. ↑ 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
  10. ↑ handball-world.news: Ljubomir Vranjes released his second dismissal within a week on October 5, 2018, accessed on October 5, 2018
  11. ↑ handball-world.news: Ljubomir Vranjes signs long-term contract with IFK Kristianstad on January 31, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2019
  12. ↑ handball-world.news: Ljubomir Vranjes will be the national coach of Slovenia from December 17, 2019, accessed on December 17, 2019
  13. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Interview with Ljubomir Vranjes from April 29, 2007, accessed on June 4, 2014
  14. ↑ sg-flensburg-handewitt.de: The “Red Sofa”: handball stars chat about personal issues from September 13, 2007, accessed on June 4, 2014
personal data
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