Goran Čengić (21 April 1946 – 14 June 1992) was a Yugoslav handball player who played for RK Bosna Sarajevo, RK Mlada Bosna,

RK Crvena zvezda RK Crvena zvezda () is a Serbian handball club based in Belgrade. They compete in the Serbian Handball Super League. History Founded in 1948, the club made its Yugoslav Championship debut in 1954. They subsequently won back-to-back champion ...

and the Yugoslavia national handball team.

Early life

He was born in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its a ...

, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina,

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in 1946 to Ferid "Fićo" (1910–1986) and Nataša (née Zimonjić). Both of his parents were

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. His father,

Ferid Čengić Farid (Arabic: فَرِيد ''fariyd'', ''farīd''), also spelt Fareed or Ferid and accented Férid, is an Arabic and Persian masculine personal name or surname meaning "unique, singular ("the One"), incomparable". For many communities, including i ...

, served in Sarajevo's Partisan municipal committee and in the city council and later was

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from 1947 to 1948. His mother was a descendant of the old

Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the population in ...

family of Zimonjić from

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. The brother of his mother's grandfather was Orthodox bishop

Petar Zimonjić Petar Zimonjić ( sr-cyr, Петар Зимоњић; 24 June 1866 – June 1941) was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church serving as the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1920 until the beginning of World War II. ...

, who was killed by Croat Ustashe in 1941 and was later canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church as a saint.https://www.oslobodjenje.ba/dosjei/kolumne/sv-petar-i-njegov-praunuk-goran Sv. Petar i njegov praunuk Goran In 1963, at the age of 17, while playing for RK Bosna Sarajevo he helped win the Yugoslav Handball Cup. Čengić completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Sarajevo.

Death

Čengić was killed on 14 June 1992 by Veselin Vlahović after he tried to protect his

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neighbor, Husnija Ćerimagić. Nine years after his murder, Čengić's remains were found and interred in Sarajevo's Bare Cemetery. In 2006, RK Bosna Sarajevo began holding the Goran Čengić Memorial Tournament in his honor. In 2013, he was posthumously awarded the Duško Kondor Civil Courage Award. Former Croatian president Stjepan Mesić presented the award to Čengić's son Vladimir.

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