Ljubomir Vranjes (born 3 October 1973) is a Swedish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

coach and former player who competed at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

. Since June 2022, he is the head coach of

USAM Nîmes Gard USAM Nîmes is a French team handball, handball team based in Nîmes, that plays in the LNH Division 1. Crest, colours, supporters Naming history Kit manufacturers Kits Results *LNH Division 1: **''Winners: (4)'' 1988, 1990, 1991 ...

Career

Club

Vranjes played with

Redbergslids IK Redbergslids IK (RIK), is a handball team from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1916. Redbergslids is the most successful club in Sweden, having won 20 Swedish Championship titles. Home games are played in Prioritet Serneke Arena. Redbergslid is ...

for eight years, between 1991 and 1999, and has won five Swedish championship titles (1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, and 1997–98).

National team

Vranjes was a member of the Swedish national team for eleven years, between 1996 and 2007. With Sweden, he won the European Handball Championship three times (

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, and

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

), and the World Handball Championship once, in

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

. He also won the silver medal at the

Coaching

After retiring as a player in 2009, Vranjes became the manager of the German team Flensburg-Handewitt with whom he won the

2013–14 EHF Champions League The 2013–14 VELUX EHF Champions League was the 54th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 21st edition under the current EHF Champions League format. HSV Hamburg was the defending champion. The VELUX EHF FINAL4 was played ...

. In 2013 he briefly coached the

Serbia men's national handball team Serbia The Serbia men's national handball team represents Serbia in international handball competitions. It is governed by the Serbian Handball Federation. Olympic Committee of FR Yugoslavia declared men's national handball team ...

. In 2017, he signed with MVM Veszprém and the Hungary national team, taking over both positions on 1 July 2017. On 17 December 2019, he took the head coach role of the Slovenia national team. He was sacked in January 2022 after failing to reach the main round of the

2022 European Men's Handball Championship The 2022 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 15th edition of the tournament and the second to feature 24 national teams. It was co-hosted in two countries – Hungary and Slovakia – from 13 to 30 January 2022. It was won by Sweden ...

. On 19 January 2022, he was named the head coach of

Handball-Bundesliga The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 onwards, the league was sponsored by Toyota and has officially been called the ''Toyota Handball-Bundesliga''. This lasted until 2012 when the Deutsche K ...

club

Rhein-Neckar Löwen Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF European League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP Aren ...

for the remainder of the season. In June 2022, he became the head coach of French side

Personal life

Vranjes is of Serbian descent, and was born in

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

Honours

;Player * Swedish Championship: **Winner: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 **Runner-up: 1995, 1999 ;Manager *

EHF Champions League The Men's EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the me ...

: **Winner:

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vranjes, Ljubomir 1973 births Living people Handball players from Gothenburg Swedish male handball players Olympic handball players of Sweden Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Swedish people of Serbian descent Expatriate handball players Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Spain Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Swedish expatriate sportspeople in France Olympic medalists in handball Redbergslids IK players BM Granollers players HSG Nordhorn-Lingen players SG Flensburg-Handewitt players Handball-Bundesliga players Liga ASOBAL players Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Serb diaspora sportspeople Swedish handball coaches Handball coaches of international teams