Mile Isaković

Mile Isaković

Mile Isaković (2015)
Player information
birthday	17th January 1958
place of birth	Šabac , SFR Yugoslavia
citizenship	Serbian
height	1.86 m
Playing position	Left winger
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1986	Metaloplastika Šabac
1986-1987	TSV Milbertshofen
1987-1988	Metaloplastika Šabac
1988-1991	US Créteil HB
1991-1993	OM Vitrolles
National team
	Games (goals)
Yugoslavia	190 (734)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1992-1996	OM Vitrolles
12/2004–2/2005	Hypo Lower Austria
2006-2006	AS Pallamano Secchi
2006-2008	US Créteil HB
As of April 19, 2014

Mile Isaković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Миле Исаковић , born January 17, 1958 in Šabac ) is a Serbian handball coach and director of the Serbian handball club Metaloplastika Šabac . The former handball player is considered one of the best left wingers in history and was part of Metaloplastika Šabac's team of the century .

Career

The 1.86 m tall and 78 kg heavy right-handed player began playing handball in his hometown at Metaloplastika Šabac. While he had to give way to RK Partizan Bjelovar and RK Borac Banja Luka at the end of the 1970s , he was to dominate the Yugoslav league and European handball in the 1980s. Together with players such as Veselin Vujović , Zlatko Portner and Mirko Bašić , he won five championships in a row from 1982 and the cup four times from 1980. In 1983 he failed in the semi-finals of CSKA Moscow in the European Cup . A year later he was defeated in the seven-meter throw in the final Dukla Prague . In 1985 and 1986 he won the competition. With 1658 goals he is the record scorer of Šabac to this day.

Since Yugoslav athletes were only allowed to move abroad at the age of 27, Isaković was now ready for this step. The following two seasons he ran in 1986 for the German Bundesliga promoted TSV Milbertshofen . After a year he went back to Metaloplastika Šabac. In 1988 he moved to the French club US Créteil HB , with whom he won the Ligue Nationale de Handball and the Coupe de France in 1989 . This season he also reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , where he lost to TUSEM Essen . In 1989/90 he made it to the semi-finals in and European Cups , but failed there at FC Barcelona . For the 1991/92 season he went to OM Vitrolles , where he lost the final in the 1992 Coupe de France. Since the opponent HB Vénissieux was champion, Isaković, who was meanwhile player- coach, was allowed to start in the European Cup Winners' Cup and won this competition by a final victory over KC Veszprém . Winning the Coupe de France in 1993 was his last title as a player. In 1994 and 1996 he was the coach of French champions and in 1995 he was again a cup winner.

With the Yugoslav national team , Mile Isaković finished sixth at the 1980 Olympic Games . Two years later he was defeated in the final of the 1982 World Cup of the Soviet Union. Since they boycotted the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the way to Olympic victory was clear for Yugoslavia. With 39 goals, including six in the 18:17 final victory over Germany, he was the third top scorer of the tournament. At the 1986 World Cup , he won the gold medal again. Mile Isaković played 190 international matches in which he scored 734 goals.

Private

Mile Isaković has a brother, Nenad. His daughter Sara Isakovič won silver in the 200 meter freestyle at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Web links

• Mile Isaković in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Mile Isaković in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.news.at Resignation in the handball camp on February 25, 2005, accessed on April 19, 2014
2. ↑ www.siol.net Sara Isaković želi plavati za Srbijo (Slovenian) from February 5, 2014, accessed on April 19, 2014