Aleksa Kolaković (born 10 August 1997) is a Serbian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

player for Saint-Raphael Var Handball and the Serbian national team.

Personal life

Aleksa's father, Igor, is currently the coach of the

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, he was also the coach of

Serbia men's national volleyball team The Serbia men's national volleyball team represents Serbia in international men's volleyball. FIVB and the CEV consider Serbia the inheritor of the records of SFR Yugoslavia (1948–1991) and Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006). Serbia won gol ...

for 8 years and he won 7 medals. Igor is Bachelor of business administration, graduated in 1989 of

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. Aleksa's mother, Sandra, was professional handball player, she won champions league with

RK Krim Rokometni klub Krim (), commonly referred to as RK Krim or simply Krim, currently named Krim Mercator due to sponsorship reasons, is a professional women's handball club from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Krim was founded in 1984 and has won the Slovenia ...

in 2001, and she also has a bronze medal from world championship in

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in 2001 with Yugoslavian women's national handball team.

Career

Aleksa started playing handball at age of 7, his first handball steps he made in RK Gorica in 2004. RK Gorica was women's handball club and the only club at that moment in Podgorica. In 2005, first men's handball club arrives in Podgorica and Aleksa moves to it.

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was led by Miodrag Misko Popovic, ex. coach of Montenegro national team and former of lot of players such as

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... After 8 years spent in

, Aleksa moves to Slovenia and he starts playing for

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. After one year of good work with Bojan Čotar, ex. assist coach of

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, Aleksa will move to France and he will continue his career in Saint-Raphael Var Handball where he's still playing.

National teams

Aleksa's road to national team was really difficult. He started playing for youth national team of Montenegro, he didn't participate in any official game. After 2 years of pause, he started playing for youth national team of Serbia and he did two competitions. In 2014, he participated in U18 European championship with

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, and they finished 13th out of 16 teams. In 2015, he was not on the list of 16 players for U18 World championship which took place in

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. In 2016, he played U20 European championship in Denmark and he finished in 14th place.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolaković, Aleksa 1997 births Living people Serbian male handball players 21st-century Serbian sportsmen Handball players from Podgorica Serbian expatriate handball players in France Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in France Montenegrin male handball players Serbs of Montenegro