Ljubomir Vranjes
Ljubomir Vranjes | |||
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![]() Vranjes in March 2016 | |||
Personal information | |||
Born |
Gothenburg, Sweden | 3 October 1973||
Nationality | Swedish | ||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Playing position | Centre back | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Slovenia (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
Years | Team | ||
–1989 | Kortedala IF | ||
1989–1991 | Redbergslids IK | ||
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
1991–1999 | Redbergslids IK | ||
1999–2001 | BM Granollers | ||
2001–2006 | HSG Nordhorn-Lingen | ||
2006–2009 | SG Flensburg-Handewitt | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1996–2007 | Sweden | 164[1] | (451) |
Teams managed | |||
2010–2017 | SG Flensburg-Handewitt | ||
2013 | Serbia | ||
2017–2018 | Telekom Veszprém | ||
2017–2018 | Hungary | ||
2019–2020 | IFK Kristianstad | ||
2019– | Slovenia | ||
Ljubomir Vranjes (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Врањеш, Ljubomir Vranješ; born 3 October 1973) is a Swedish handball coach and former player who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Since December 2019, he is the manager of the Slovenian national team.
Career[]
Club[]
Vranjes played with Redbergslids IK for eight years, between 1991 and 1999, and has won five Swedish championship titles (1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, and 1997–98).
National team[]
Vranjes was a member of the Swedish national team for eleven years, between 1996 and 2007. With Sweden, he won the European Handball Championship three times (1998, 2000, and 2002), and the World Handball Championship once, in 1999. He also won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Coaching[]
After retiring as a player in 2009, Vranjes became the manager of the German team Flensburg-Handewitt with whom he won the 2013–14 EHF Champions League. In 2013 he briefly coached the Serbia men's national handball team.
In 2017, he signed with MVM Veszprém and the Hungary national team, taking over both positions on 1 July 2017.[2][3]
On 17 December 2019, he took the head coach role of the Slovenia national team.[4]
Personal life[]
Vranjes is of Serbian descent, and was born in Gothenburg.[5]
Honours[]
- Player
- Swedish Championship:
- Winner: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998
- Runner-up: 1995, 1999
- Swedish Handball Cup:
- Winner: 1996, 1997, 1998
- Manager
- EHF Champions League:
- Winner: 2014
References[]
- ^ "Statistics Swedish National Handball Team" (PDF). svenskhandboll.se. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ "Vranjes' era at SG Flensburg-Handewitt comes to an end". European Handball Federation. 1 February 2017. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ "Second Hungary job for Ljubomir Vranjes". European Handball Federation. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ To. G.; A. V. (17 December 2019). "Uradno: novi selektor Slovenije je Šved Ljubomir Vranješ" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- ^ Bauman, Bojan (18 December 2019). "Ljubomir Vranješ – Šved, a naš". Večer (in Slovenian). Retrieved 19 December 2020.
External links[]
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- Ljubomir Vranjes at European Handball Federation
- Ljubomir Vranjes at Munzinger Sports Archives (in German)
- Ljubomir Vranjes at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
- Ljubomir Vranjes at Olympedia
- Ljubomir Vranjes at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Gothenburg
- Swedish male handball players
- Olympic handball players of Sweden
- Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
- Swedish people of Serbian descent
- Expatriate handball players
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Redbergslids IK players
- BM Granollers players
- HSG Nordhorn-Lingen players
- SG Flensburg-Handewitt players
- Handball-Bundesliga players
- Liga ASOBAL players
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Serb diaspora sportspeople
- Swedish handball coaches
- Handball coaches of international teams