Goran Rađenović

Goran Rađenović

Personal information
Born	4 November 1966 (1966-11-04) (age 58) Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Medal record Men's water polo Representing Yugoslavia Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team World Championship 1986 Madrid Team 1991 Perth Team European Championship 1985 Sofia 1987 Strasbourg 1989 Bonn 1991 Athens World Cup 1987 Thessaloniki 1989 West-Berlin Mediterranean Games 1991 Athens Team Universiade 1987 Zagreb Team

Goran Rađenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Рађеновић; born 4th Novembar 1966 in Niš) is a retired Yugoslav and Serbian water polo player and now he is waterpolo coach. During his career he played in Partizan, Roma and Budva and won numerous national and international trofees. The most of his successes are from the time when he was part of national team of Yugoslavia. He played for national team 265 times and won Olympic, World and European Championship.

Club career

VK Partizan

Rađenović started playing waterpolo at the age of 8 in Waterpolo Club Partizan from Belgrade. He played in Partizan for 18 years and went through all age groups. In younger categories he won many titles.

He made his seniour debut for Partizan in 1982 when he was 16 zears old and he played in Partizan until 1992.

Titles won with Partizan:

• National Championship of Yugoslavia (3): 1983/84, 1986/87, 1987/88;
• National Cup of Yugoslavia (7): 1981/82, 1984/85, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1989/90, 1990/91, 1991/92;
• European Cup of Cups (1): 1989/90;
• European Super Cup (1): 1990/91;
• COMEN Cup (1): 1989.

Roma

In 1992 Rađenović transferred from Partizan to Water polo Club Roma from Rome and for that club he played for four years.

Titles won with Roma:

• Three second places in The National Championship of Italy,
• European Cup of Cups (1) 1995/96.
• Len Euro Cup(1) 1993/94.

Budva

His last season (1996/97) as a player he spent in Water polo Club Budva but earlier during 1994. he spent few month in Budva and won National Championship of Yugoslavia.

National Team

He went through all age groups of national team of Yugoslavia and with national team he won great number of medals and titles. For A national team he made debut in 1984 and in following ten years he played 265 times for the team. This was the most successful period for water polo sport in Yugoslavia, when two Olympic gold medals, two World Championships and for the first time European Championship were won. Rađenović was member of team that won Olympic gold in Seul, World Championship gold medal in Pert and European Championship trofee in Athens.

Carieer as coach

Budva

After finishing his playing career in Water polo Club Budva in 1997 he became coach of A team in that same club. In season 1997/98 he won second place in the National Championship of Yugoslavia and in European Cup of Cups he made it to semifinals.

Bečej

The following two seasons he was coaching A team of Bečej Water polo Club. With Bečej he won two National Championships and two National Cups of Yugoslavia and one second place in European Champions Cup.

Anzio

He started coaching Anzio in season 2000/01 and in his first season he won first place in A2 Italian league. Following season he ended taking the team into Italian A1 Championship play off.

Camogli

From 2002 to 2006 he was coach of A team in Water polo Club Camogli and he was in charge of all younger teams of the club. During those four seasons his team was ranked from 5th to 8th place in National Championships of Italy as well as one semifinals in LEN Cup. Parallely zoung categories win many first places in theirs championships.

Nervi

From 2006 to 2008 he worked as coach in Water polo Club Nervi from Genova. During two seasons in this club he was ranked 6 and 8 in A1 National Championship of Italy.

Pro Recco

From 2008 to 2014 he was in charge of younger categories of one of the biggest European clubs, Pro Recco from Recco and coordinator of water polo clubs from the region of Liguria. With this club he made huge success in championships of zounger categories of Italy.

References

• http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/sport.297.html:404393-Radjenovic-Neophodno-je-sacuvati-sistem
• http://www.sportnetwork.rs/play/59501/medalje-zauvek---emisija-53
• http://vaterpolovesti.com/2015/09/29/goran-radenovic-u-vodi-se-telo-razvija-na-najpravilniji-moguci-nacin-to-je-vazno-za-decu/

External links

• profile at Sports-Reference.com