Veselin Vujović

Veselin " Vuja " Vujović ( born January 19, 1961 in Cetinje / Montenegro ) is a former Yugoslav handball player and current Handball coach in the United Arab Emirates.

With 1.96 m body length, he played left back. He is regarded as one of the world's best, most successful, but also most controversial handball player of the 1980s. As the first handball player he was in 1988 elected World Handball Player.

Career

As a player

At 20 he began the Yugoslav giants Metaloplastika Sabac. In 1988 he moved to Spain with FC Barcelona and 1993 to BM Granollers.

As a coach

After end of his career in 2000, he became a coach at the Spanish first division club BM Ciudad Real. He lost this position in April 2002, after the European Cup Winners' Cup after the game against the SG Flensburg- Handewitt Flensburg player Lars Christiansen felled in the final first leg. Then he stepped on the fallen Lars Krogh Jeppesen. He was awarded by the EHF a ten -month ban and 9,000 euro fine.

In 2005, he led the youth national team of Serbia and Montenegro for the first Youth World Championship title. At the 2004 European Championships in Slovenia coached by him Serbo- Montenegrin national team won against the eventual champions Germany in the opening match 28:26. His team was then then sixth. At the World Cup in Tunisia in 2005 his team was fifth. At the European Championships in Switzerland in 2006 his team then reached only the ninth place. The led with, as well as the accusation he had his players suggested an intentional losing the match against Croatia, to his replacement by Jovica Cvetkovic. With him he exchanged quasi his employer because Veselin Vujović then coached the Macedonian team of RK Vardar Skopje, where Jovica Cvetkovic worked as a trainer before. 23 November 2008 Vujović attacked by a European Cup match between Vardar Skopje and the Cadets Schaffhausen the arbitrator, and he was suspended for one year and received a fine of 3,000 euros. In January 2010, he left Skopje and trained to December 2010, the Qatari club Al- Sadd Sports Club. In April of the following year he again took over as coach of RK Vardar Skopje. Vujović changed in the summer of 2013 in the United Arab Emirates to al Shabab club.

Achievements

• Junior World Champion in 1981 with Yugoslavia
• Vice World Champion in 1982 with Yugoslavia
• Gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
• World Champion in 1986 with Yugoslavia
• Bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in 1988 in Seoul
• Handball World Championship Men 1990 4th place with Yugoslavia
• European Handball Championship 1996: Bronze with Yugoslavia

• 7 × Yugoslavian champion with Metaloplastika Sabac
• 2 x European Champion Clubs' Cup with Metaloplastika Sabac 1985 and 1986
• 4 × Spanish Champion
• 1 × European Champion Clubs' Cup with Barcelona in 1991

As a coach:

• 4th place at the Summer Olympic Games in 2000 with Serbia - Montenegro
• World Cup Under-19 Youth 2005 with Serbia - Montenegro