Dane Å ijan

Dane Šijan on 9 September 2007 in Cologne Arena

Status: National February 18, 2009

Dane Šijan ( Serbian Cyrillic Дане Шијан; born February 5, 1977 in Sabac, Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian handball goalkeeper. He is 1.95 m tall and weighs 120 kg.

Šijan who plays for Bjerringbro - Silkeborg and accrued for the Serbian national team, always plays as a goalkeeper.

Dane Šijan began with the handball game at the top local club Metaloplastika Sabac, where he made ​​his debut in the first Serbian league. He always was one of the top players of the Serbian League; But in 1997 he was injured in a car crash hard, was on sick leave eight months and thus lost his place. He then changed frequently in the Serbian League: 1998 Proleter Zrenjanin, 1999 Rudar Pljevlja, 2000 Eporsid. It was not until 2001 he was in Partizan Belgrade in the longer term a new employer: So in 2002 he was elected in 2003 and 2004 Serbian champion and 2002 and 2003 for the best goalkeeper in the league. In 2004 he moved on in search of a new challenge to IF Guif to Sweden, where he was also chosen as the best keeper in the league. After just one season he went to Denmark to Viborg HK. There he was elected in 2006 to the best goalkeeper and won the 2007 Danish runner. Already in autumn 2006 Šijan had signed a three year contract in July 2007 with the SG Flensburg -Handewitt where he should be the successor of Jan Holpert. After just one season, he left at his own request Flensburg. From the 2008/ 09 season Šijan played back in Viborg. In summer 2012 Šijan joined the league rivals Bjerringbro - Silkeborg. In the summer of 2014 he joined Mors -Thy Håndbold.

Šijan in spite of well-known competitors such as Dejan Peric and Arpad Šterbik been contested 56 matches for the men's national handball team of Serbia and the previous team of Serbia and Montenegro. At only international success of his country, the bronze medal at the 1999 World Cup, he took probably not participate due to the aftermath of his car accident.