TEAM COMPOSITION

SRB / Serbia - Team Composition

Team manager	RELJIN Jelena
Head coach	TERZIC Zoran
Assistant coach	PROTIC Nebojsa
Doctor	MITIC Miodrag
Therapist / trainer	MLADENOVIC Sinisa
Journalist	STOJMENOVIC Sinisa

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block
C	2	Jovana	Brakocevic	BRAKOCEVIC	05.03.1988	196	82	309	295
	3	Sanja	Malagurski	MALAGURSKI	08.06.1990	193	75	305	295
	4	Bojana	Zivkovic	ZIVKOVIC	29.03.1988	185	70	292	284
	5	Natasa	Krsmanovic	Krsmanovic	19.06.1985	188	73	305	285
	6	Tijana	Malesevic	MALESEVIC	18.03.1991	185	78	300	286
	7	Brizitka	MOLNAR	MOLNAR	28.07.1985	182	66	304	290
	8	Ana	ANTONIJEVIC	ANTONIJEVIC	26.08.1987	185	63	282	269
	9	Jovana	Vesovic	VESOVIC	21.06.1987	182	68	283	268
	13	Ana	Bjelica	BJELICA	03.04.1992	190	82	310	305
	14	Nadja	Ninkovic	NINKOVIC	01.11.1991	193	77	301	286
	16	Milena	Rasic	RASIC	25.10.1990	193	75	303	293
	17	Stefana	Veljkovic	VELJKOVIC	09.01.1990	190	76	320	305
L	18	Suzana	Cebic	Cebic	09.11.1984	167	60	279	255
L	19	Silvija	POPOVIC	POPOVIC	15.03.1986	175	60	228	226

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Over the past five years, the Serbia women’s team has started to match the performances of their male counterparts and become strong contenders for podium finishers. While there is still some way to go before matching the men in terms of titles, recent notable results have put the women’s team right up their among the world’s best.

The rise of the team started with the bronze medal at the FIVB World Championship 2006 in Japan, followed by a silver medal at the 2007 European Championship. From there, the side took part in the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 for the first time ever, finishing fifth. A year later in 2009, Serbia sealed the CEV European League, a feat they repeated in 2010 and 2011.

The team, with its delightful combination of youth and experience, competed in the FIVB World Grand Prix for the first time in 2011, clinching the bronze medal in an outstanding performance. Even more so considering their most experienced player and skipper Jelena Nikolic playing a very limited part due to injury. She returned to lead Serbia to European Championship gold however she is missing again for the World Cup. Despite this potentially upsetting inconsistency, Serbia have obviously shown in the past that they have enough character to ensure it has minimal effect on their World Cup dreams.

Coach profile

Zoran Terzic began his career as a player for VC Crvena Zvezda and has coached teams in Romania and Italy. He became the Serbia coach in 2002. His first major success was qualifying for the 2003 European Championship after a 12-year absence. This was followed by a bronze medal at the FIVB World Championship 2006 and in 2008 he led the team to the Beijing Olympic Games for the first time. This year, he helped them seal a bronze medal in their debut season in the FIVB World Grand Prix and then triumphed at the European Championship.