TEAM COMPOSITION

SRB / Serbia

Team manager	LUKAC Laslo
Coach	KOLAKOVIC Igor
Assistant coach	KUKANJAC Tomislav
2nd assistant coach
Doctor	MARTINOVIC Ljuban
Physiotherapist	NIKOLIC Vladimir

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Club
	1	Uros	Kovacevic	Kovacevic	06.05.1993	197	90	340	310	Casa Modena (ITA)
	2	Mihajlo	Stankovic	Stankovic	05.06.1993	200	83	330	310	Vojvodina NS seme N. Sad (SRB)
	4	Boris	Martinovic	Martinovic	11.05.1992	205	86	330	315	Vojvodina NS Seme Novi Sa(SRB)
	6	Filip	Stoilovic	Stoilovic	11.10.1992	195	89	324	315	Crvena Zvezda Beograd (SRB)
	8	Milorad	Kapur	Kapur	05.03.1991	181	80	313	306	Vojvodina NS Seme Novi Sad (SR
	9	Nikola	Jovovic	Jovovic	13.02.1992	197	75	335	315	VfB Frierichshafen (GER)
	10	Vuk	Milutinovic	Milutinovic	29.05.1991	203	84	325	315	Crvena Zvezda Beograd (SRB)
	13	Dusan	Petkovic	Petkovic D.	27.01.1992	202	86	328	310	Crvena Zvezda Beograd (SRB)
C	14	Aleksandar	Atanasijevic	Atanasijevic	04.09.1991	200	92	350	329	Sir Safety Perugia (ITA)
	16	Aleksa	Brdjovic	Brdjovic	29.07.1993	204	90	327	312	KPS Skra Belchatow SA (POL)
	17	Lazar	Koprivica	Koprivica	08.11.1991	200	92	324	314	Crvena Zvezda Beograd (SRB)
	18	Srecko	Lisinac	Lisinac	17.05.1992	205	90	355	342	KPS Skra Belchatow (POL)

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

At the FIVB U23 World Championship the Serbian team will comprise junior and senior men’s players who already demonstrated their quality in various international events this year.

The team will have Aleksandar Atanasijevic, Sre?ko Lisinac, and Nikola Jovovic, players who led their team to a bronze medal at the recent CEV Senior Men’s European Championship. They also took individual awards for the best scorer, blocker, and a special fair play award.

Uros Kovacevic will be added to the team, a receiver who won gold at the Youth World Championships in 2009 and 2011, bronze at the 2011 Junior World Championship, and gold at the 2011 Senior European Championship. He is regarded as a true leader and is one of the most talented receivers in the world, who complete the ‘magnificent four’ of Serbian players representing a truly bright future for Serbian volleyball.

While the other players do not have as much experience, they are hardworking athletes who possess a great deal of talent, like Aleksa Brdjovic in setter position, or Dusan Petkovic who plays opposite.

They will all be guided from the bench by Igor Kolakovic, who has already made a name for himself with the senior national team of Serbia over the last seven years.

Coach profile

Igor Kolakovic, coach of the U23 men’s national team, brings to the job an impressive resume of working with Serbia’s men’s national teams.

He has adopted a steady approach to team development, resulting in some fantastic achievements for Serbia over the years. Under his leadership the men’s national team won a bronze medal at the 2010 World Championship and gold at the 2011 European Championship.

He has also taken the Serbia team to two silver medals (2008, 2009) and one bronze (2010) at the World League, a bronze at the 2007 CEV European Championship and a bronze medal at the recent CEV Senior Men’s European Championship in Poland and Denmark. Under his guidance, Serbia has also qualified twice to the Olympic Games (2008, 2012).

Over the years he successfully introduced promising new players to the team and built the basis for a new generation of senior men who are able to stay on the top of the game.