Sanja Popović

Sanja Popović
portrait
Date of birth	May 31, 1984
place of birth	Rijeka, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
size	1.86 m
position	Acceptance / outside
societies
1998–1999 1999–2003 2003–2006 2006–2008 2008–2009 2009–2010 2010–2011 2011 2011–2012 2012–2013 2013–	OK Kastav ŽOK Rijeka HAOK Mladost Zagreb Asystel Volley Novara Chieri Volley Club Beşiktaş Istanbul Pallavolo Sirio Perugia GS Caltex Seoul VK Prostějov Bank BPS Fakro Muszyna Dynamo Moscow
National team
	A national team
successes
2006 2012 2012 2013 2013	Croatian champion Czech champion Czech cup winner CEV cup winner Russian cup winner
As of February 20, 2014

Sanja Popović (born May 31, 1984 in Rijeka , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian national volleyball player .

Volleyball career

Sanja Popović grew up in Rijeka . Her playing career began with the Croatian volleyball club Kastav, in the town of the same name Kastav . She played there for the first time in the 1998/99 season. In the 1999 season, Popović moved to Rijeka and stayed there until the 2003 season.

This was followed by a move to HAOK Mladost Zagreb , where she played from 2005 and became Croatian champion in 2006. She then moved to Italy, first to Asystel Volley Novara and later to Chieri Volley Club . After a 2009/10 season in Turkey with Beşiktaş Istanbul , she returned to Italy to Pallavolo Sirio Perugia . After a brief engagement in 2011 in South Korea at GS Caltex Seoul , she returned to Europe to VK Prostějov , with whom she became Czech champion and cup winner in 2012. Popović then played in Poland at Bank BPS Fakro Muszyna and won the CEV Cup here in 2013 . In the same year she won the Russian Cup with Dynamo Moscow .

Sanja Popović played with the Croatian national volleyball team at the 2007 European Championships in Belgium and Luxembourg .

Web links

• Profile on legavolleyfemminile.it
• Profile at the FIVB
• Profile at the CEV
• Profile at Dynamo Moscow