Goran Čengić (21 April 1946 – 14 June 1992) was a Yugoslav handball player who played for

RK Bosna Sarajevo ORK Bosna Sarajevo is a handball club based in Centar, Sarajevo, Sarajevo Canton, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is part of the USD Bosna organization with headquarter located at Hamze Hume 2, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

, 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 Handball Championship, Yugoslav Championship debut in 1954. They subsequen ...

and the Yugoslavia national handball team.

Early life

He was born in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

PR Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

FPR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

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

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. His father,

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

, served in Sarajevo's Partisan municipal committee and in the city council and later was mayor of Sarajevo from 1947 to 1948. His mother was a descendant of the old

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

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 Ustashe in 1941 and was later

canonized Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of sa ...

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 The University of Sarajevo (Bosnian language, Bosnian, Croatian language, Croatian and Serbian language, Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a List of universities in Bo ...

Death

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

Bosniak The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

neighbor, Husnija Ćerimagić. Nine years after his murder, Čengić's remains were found and interred in Sarajevo's

Bare Cemetery The Bare Cemetery is a cemetery complex in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina opened in 1965, with the first funeral and interment occurring on 3 January 1966. The central part of the cemetery is a spacious plateau with a staircase and a porch tha ...

. 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 Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatia, Croatian lawyer and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was Prime Minister of Croatia, prime minis ...

presented the award to Čengić's son Vladimir.

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