Ivan Miljković ( sr-cyrl, Иван Миљковић ; born 13 September 1979) is a Serbian businessman and former professional

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. Miljković was a member of the Serbia men's national volleyball team from 1998–2012. He is an Olympic Champion (2000), a European Champion (

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), and a medalist of the FIVB Volleybal Men's World Championship, World Grand Champions Cup,

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and World League. After retiring from his active playing career, Miljković remained engaged in sport in different positions (governance, marketing, campaigns, management). He also resumed his education in the areas of economy and finance.

Career

Clubs

After this success he changed his club and started playing for Italian Lube Banca Macerata. In 2001 the Yugoslav team won the European Volleyball Championship in

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, Czech Republic. With his club, Lube Banca Macerata, he also won the Champions League (2001), twice the Italian Cup (2001, 2003) and three times the CEV Cup (2001, 2005, 2006). On 18 July 2007 he signed a contract with the M. Roma Volley. The following year, on 5 July 2008,

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, announced that he will be continuing his career in

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. In 2009 he won the Greek Championship and the Greek Cup and in 2010 the championship. On 30 June 2010 he signed a two-year contract for Fenerbahçe SK of

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. With Fenerbahçe he won 2011 and 2012 Turkish volleyball league, 2012 Turkish Cup, 2011 and 2012 Turkish Super Cup and 2014 European

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. Miljković played for Fenerbahçe Grundig in 2010–2015. Miljković in 2015 sing in Italian club Cucine Lube Civitanova. Miljković in 2016 back to Turkey League. He ended up his career after achieving gold medal of Turkish Championship in May 2017 with Halkbank Ankara team.

National team

He played in the national team of

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for the first time a year later (on 4 October 1998, in a game against Turkey). In 2000 in Sydney the Yugoslav national team (members of which were also Vladimir Grbić,

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, Goran Vujević) won the Olympic gold medal. In the final match against Russia Ivan Miljković scored the last point and after that fell on his knees. In March 2012, has officially retired from the Serbian National Team after 14 years and 288 played matches. The only player to win MVP of the FIVB World League 3 times in a row (2002, 2003, 2004) and only player to win 4 MVP awards during the FIVB World League (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006).

Sports business professional career

* Chief Athletes Commission –

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* Executive Board Member –

* 1st Vice President – Volleyball Federation of Serbia

Executive education

* Université de Limoges Master's degree, Sport Governance, 2020 - 2022 * Harvard Business School Online, Alternative Investments, Jan 2022 - Feb 2022, Private Equity, Private Debt, Distressed Investing and Secondaries, Hedge Funds, Real Estate, Portfolio Construction * Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration - FEFA, Business Administration, Management and Operations

Style of play

Miljković is regularly on the top of the best spikers list in the tournaments and has a great jump serve. He is very well built and extremely strong opposite hitter who has variety of different shots; he can swing the ball away with a power or using his good technique. For an extremely big player Miljković moves surprisingly well. He has a good footwork and is quick from his feet; therefore he is able to generate good speed for his approach from any distance to the ball.

Sporting achievements

Clubs

CEV Champions League

2001/2002 – with Lube Macerata * Bronze medal with cup

2015/2016 – with Cucine Lube Civitanova

CEV Challenge Cup

2000/2001, 2004/2005, 2005/2006 – with Lube Macerata * Gold medal with cup

2013/2014 – with Fenerbahçe

CEV Cup

2007–2008 – with M. Roma

National League

* Champions

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– 2005–2006 * Champions

– 2008–2009, 2009–2010 * Champions

– 2010–2011, 2011–2012, 2016–2017 * Champions

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– 2009, 2010, 2012

Individually

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* Best Volleyball Player in the History by ''volleyball-movies.net''volleyball-movies.net Best volleyball players in the history
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"Most Valuable Player"

Record

* 37 Points – 2002 FIVB World League recordThe World's Best Scorers In The Rally Scoring Era
/ref> * 37 Points – 2005 FIVB World League record

References

External links

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