Nenad Peruničić

Nenad Peruničić

Player information
Nickname	"El Conquistador"
birthday	May 1, 1971
place of birth	Pljevlja , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Montenegrin German
height	2.03 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1988-1990	RK Jugović
1990-1993	RK Red Star Belgrade
1993-1994	PSG-Asnières
1994-1997	Bidasoa Irun
1997-2001	THW Kiel
2001-2004	SC Magdeburg Gladiators
2004–4 / 2005	SG Wallau / Massenheim
4/2005–6/2005	al-Ahli SC
6/2005-2006	Pick Szeged
2006-2007	FC Barcelona
2007–11/2007	Algeciras BM
11 / 2007-2008	RK Red Star Belgrade
2008-2009	MRK Budućnost Podgorica
National team
	Games (goals)
Serbia-Montenegro	141 (?)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2013-2019	RK Red Star Belgrade
2018-2020	Serbia
Status: national team January 1, 2007

Nenad Peruničić ( Cyrillic Ненад Перуничић ; born May 1, 1971 in Pljevlja , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian-Montenegrin / German handball trainer and handball player .

Career

Nenad Peruničić started with RK Jugović ; He received his first professional contract with RK Red Star Belgrade . In 1993 he moved to PSG-Asnières , but a year later he moved to Bidasoa Irún in the Spanish ASOBAL league . In 1995 he achieved his international breakthrough here: He won the EHF Champions League and was voted the best player in the ASOBAL league. Here he also got his nickname "El conquistador" (Eng. "The Conqueror"). He also won the 1996 Copa del Rey de Balonmano with the Basques and the 1997 European Cup Winners' Cup . After that, the 2.03-meter backcourt player moved to the German handball league at THW Kiel , where he won the 1998, 1999 and 2000 championships Pokal and the EHF Cup in 1998. In 2000 he moved into the final of the EHF Champions League again, but lost to FC Barcelona there . In 2001 he moved to league competitor SC Magdeburg Gladiators . With the Elbe cities he won the EHF Champions League and the EHF Club European Championship again in 2002 . In 2004 he played nine months for SG Wallau / Massenheim , after which he had a three-month interlude at al-Ahli SC in Qatar. Finally, Peruničić played another season for Pick Szeged in Hungary, where he won the Hungarian Cup. In the 2006/07 season he played - at the age of 36 - for FC Barcelona, ​​where he again won the Copa del Rey de Balonmano. For fitness reasons he was actually only used in defense. In the summer of 2007, his contract with Barcelona was not renewed, so he joined the club Algeciras BM , where he played until November 2007. In the 2008/09 season he ran for the Montenegrin club MRK Budućnost Podgorica , then he ended his career.

Nenad Peruničić has played 141 international matches for the Serbian-Montenegrin and Yugoslav national teams. With the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he won just as in the 1996 European Men's Handball Championship in Spain bronze as in the 1999 World Men's Handball Championship in Egypt. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he was fourth with Serbia-Montenegro. Because in 2002, Oleg Kuleschow and Grzegorz Tkaczyk , two foreigners played for the SC Magdeburg Gladiators, Peruničić has also had German citizenship since October 2002.

After his active career, he took over the coaching position of the Serbian club RK Roter Stern Belgrade in 2013 . Here he made his comeback as a player in April 2015. In 2019 he ended his activity at RK Red Star Belgrade. From 2018 to 2020 he coached the Serbian national team.

successes

• Champions League winner in 1995 with Bidasoa Irún and in 2002 with SC Magdeburg
• Spanish champion 1995 with Bidasoa Irún
• Spanish cup winner 1996 with Bidasoa Irún and 2007 with FC Barcelona
• Super Cup winner 1996 with Bidasoa Irún
• European Cup Winner 1997 with Bidasoa Irún
• German champion in 1998, 1999 and 2000 with the THW Kiel
• DHB Cup winner 1998, 1999 and 2000 with the THW Kiel
• EHF Cup winner 1998 with the THW Kiel
• 1998 Super Cup winner with the THW Kiel
• Hungarian Cup winner 2006 with Pick Szeged

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
1997/98	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	28	183	33	150
1998/99	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	26th	162	9	153
1999/2000	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	31	157	10	147
2000/01	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	36	224	7th	217
2001/02	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	32	150	7th	143
2002/03	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	26th	103	0	103
2003/04	SC Magdeburg	Bundesliga	3	11	0	11
2004/05	SG Wallau / Massenheim	Bundesliga	25th	34	0	34
1997-2005	total	Bundesliga	207	1024	66	958

Web links

• Nenad Peruničić in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Portrait on the website of THW Kiel
• Portrait on the website of FC Barcelona (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.novosti.rs: Peruničić se onesvestio iz čista mira , accessed on November 21, 2013
2. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Nenad Perunicic makes a comeback , accessed on April 10, 2015
3. ↑ mondo.rs: Rukometaši Crvene zvezde imaju novog trenera: Stigla zamena za Peruničića , accessed on February 22, 2020
4. ↑ handball-world.news: Serbia: New national coach Nenad Perunicic brings Nedeljko Jovanovic as assistant coach , accessed on September 26, 2018
5. ↑ handball-world.news: Nenad Perunicic resigned as national coach for Serbia , accessed on February 22, 2020