Vladimir Golovin ( hu, Golovin Vlagyimir; born 21 March 1970) is a former

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 ...

player and the current head coach of the Hungarian women's national team. Born in

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, Golovin moved to

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in 1992 and since then obtained the Hungarian citizenship. In Hungary he played for Szolnoki KC, Kiskőrös KSK,

Százhalombattai KE Százhalombattai KE is a team handball club from Százhalombatta, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the no ...

, Hargita KC and in his final years for Dabasi KC. His coaching career began at the men's team of Százhalombatta, subsequently he coached women's teams, including Kispesti NKK, Bugyi SE and

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváros wa ...

. Initially a youth coach in Ferencváros, he soon was promoted to assistant coach and was part of the back-to-back

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winner team in 2011 and 2012. During this period he also acted as the assistant coach of the Hungarian women's junior national team that won the bronze medal at the

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. In 2012 he took the head coach position at Kiskunhalasi NKSE and under his management the team produced one of the surprise performances in the 2012–13 season. At the end of the season he was signed by

Siófok KC Siófok Kézilabda Club is a Hungarian women's team handball team from Siófok, that currently play in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I. They have competed in lower divisions until 2006, when they have won the third-tier championship and gained promotion ...

to replace Szilárd Kiss, who became the youth director of the club. Between April 2015 and November 2021 he was the head coach of

MTK Budapest Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre is a multi-sports club from Budapest, founded in 1888. It has sections for football, handball, basketball, volleyball, futsal, ice hockey, water polo, cycling, gymnastics, athletics, fencing, canoeing, boxing, wrestlin ...

. In March 2018 he took over the head coach position at

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from

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. With his lead the team won the 2018 Junior World Handball Championship, which was the very first title of the Hungarian national junior team. One year later, the team won the Junior European Championship.

Achievements

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References

1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Odesa Hungarian male handball players Hungarian handball coaches Ukrainian male handball players Ukrainian emigrants to Hungary Handball coaches of international teams {{Hungary-handball-bio-stub