Nenad Kljaić (born 21 December 1966) is a Croatian former

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player and current coach of Greek club

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Career

Kljaić won two European Champions Cups as a player with

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in 1992 and 1993. He also won the

EHF Challenge Cup The Men's EHF European Cup is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF). It is the third-tier competition of European club handball, after the EHF Champions League and the EHF European League. ...

in 2000 with

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. Kljaić played for the Croatian national team from 1991 to 2001. He was part of the Croatian team that won gold medal at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

in Atlanta. He played six games and scored five goals. After retiring from competitions he worked with RK Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb.

Personal life

He is the son of

Velimir Kljaić Velimir Kljaić (10 February 1946 – 12 August 2010) was a Croatian handball player and coach. Career As a player Kljaić played with RK Medveščak Zagreb and Klagenfurt. As a coach, he won two Croatian championships with RK Zagreb and one Cu ...

and Jasenka Kljaić, born Neralić. He was married to Sandra Mejovšek-Kljaić. Together they have a son and daughter. Kljaić speaks Croatian,

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and

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Honours

Player

;Medveščak Zagreb *

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup ( hr, Pokal Jugoslavije; sr, Куп Југославије; sl, Pokal Jugoslavije, mk, Куп на Југославија), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kup kralja Aleksandra, ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

;RK Zagreb * Croatian First League: 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 2000–01 *

Croatian Cup Croatian Cup may refer to: *Croatian Football Cup *Croatian Football Super Cup * Croatian Women's Football Cup *Croatian Basketball Cup, also known as Krešimir Ćosić Cup *Croatian Handball Cup *Croatian Water Polo Cup *Croatian Minute Movie Cup ...

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

: 1988–89, 1990–91 *

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

* European Champions Cup:

* EHF Super Cup:

;TV Grosswallstadt *

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 ...

;RK Metković Jambo *

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 ...

;Yugoslavia * 1990 World Championship Czechoslovakia - 4th place * 1990 Goodwill Games Seattle - 2nd place ;Croatia * 1993 Mediterranean Games Languedoc-Roussillon - 1st place * 1994 European Championship Portugal - 3rd place * 1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta - 1st place * 1997 World Championship Japan - 13th place * 1999 World Championship Egypt - 10th place * 1999 Super Cup Germany - 2nd place * 2000 European Championship Croatia - 6th place * 2001 World Championship France - 9th place ;Individual * Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport - 1992, 1994

As coach

;Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb * Croatian First/Premier League: 2006--07, 2010-11 *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

;Saudi Arabia * 2013 World Championship Spain - 19th place * 2014 Asian Championship Bahrain - 6th place * 2015 World Championship Qatar - 22nd place * 2016 Asian Championship Bahrain - 4th place ;Al-Rayan SC * AHF Champions League Finalist:

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

Orders

Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar – 1995

References

External links

European competition

Head coach of Olympiacos Piraeus from Feb. 2020
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