Nemanja Zelenović (; born 27 February 1990) is a Serbian

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player for

HSG Wetzlar HSG Wetzlar is a professional handball club from Wetzlar, Germany. It competes in the top-tier Handball-Bundesliga and in the DHB-Pokal, German Handball Cup. They have played in the Bundesliga since 1998 without relegation. History The modern ...

and the Serbia national team.

Club career

After coming through the youth categories of

Crvena zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

, Zelenović made his senior debut in the 2007–08 season, as the club won the championship title. He moved abroad and signed with Slovenian side

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in 2011.

International career

At international level, Zelenović represented

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in two

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(

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and

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) and four

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(

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

and

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Honours

;Crvena zvezda *

Serbian Handball Super League The Serbian Handball Super League ( / Superliga Srbije u rukometu) is the top men's Team handball, handball league in Serbia. It was founded in 2006. Rules Competition format The league is operated by the Handball Federation of Serbia. It is ...

: 2007–08 ;Celje *

Slovenian First League The Slovenian PrvaLiga (, ), currently named Prva liga Telemach due to sponsorship reasons, also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the top level of the Slovenian football league system. Contested by ten clubs, it operates on a system of prom ...

: 2013–14 *

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: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14 ;SC Magdeburg *

DHB-Pokal The DHB-Pokal (English: German Handball Federation Cup) is an elimination handball tournament held annually in Germany. It is the second most important handball national title in the country after the Handball-Bundesliga championship. DHB-Pokal ...

: 2015–16

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zelenovic, Nemanja 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Knin Serbs of Croatia Serbian male handball players 21st-century Serbian sportsmen RK Crvena zvezda players Frisch Auf Göppingen players Handball-Bundesliga players Serbian expatriate handball players in Germany Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Wisła Płock (handball) players HSG Wetzlar players VfL Gummersbach players SC Magdeburg players Expatriate handball players in Slovenia Expatriate handball players in Poland