Nenad Kljaić

Nenad Kljaić (born 21 December 1966) is a Croatian former handball player and current coach of Greek club Serbia.^[1]

Nenad Kljaić
Kljaić in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Nenad Kljaić
Born	(1966-12-21) 21 December 1966 (age 58) Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position	Pivot
Club information
Current club	Serbia (manager)
Youth career
Years	Team
1980–1984	RK Medveščak Zagreb
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1984–1988	RK Medveščak Zagreb
1988–1994	Badel 1862 Zagreb
1994–2000	TV Grosswallstadt
2000–2001	Badel 1862 Zagreb
2001–2002	RK Metković Jambo
2002–2003	RK Medveščak Zagreb
2003	TV Kirchzell
National team
Years	Team	Apps
1987–1990	Yugoslavia	69
1991–2001	Croatia	145
Teams managed
1995-1996	TV Grosswallstadt
2004–2005	Croatia (assistant)
2006–2007	RK CO Zagreb
2010–2011	RK CO Zagreb
2012–2013	Saudi Arabia
2013–2014	Al-Rayan SC
2015–2019	Saudi Arabia
2019–2020	Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus
2020–	Serbia
Medal record Men's handball Representing  Yugoslavia Goodwill Games 1990 Seattle Representing  Croatia Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Team European Championship 1994 Portugal Mediterranean Games 1993 Languedoc-Roussillon

Career

Kljaić in 2010

Kljaić won two European Champions Cups as a player with RK Zagreb in 1992 and 1993.^[2] He also won the EHF Challenge Cup in 2000 with TV Grosswallstadt.

Kljaić played for the Croatian national team from 1991 to 2001. He was part of the Croatian team that won gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He played six games and scored five goals.^[3]

After retiring from competitions he worked with RK Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb.^[4]

Personal life

He is the son of Velimir Kljaić and Jasenka Kljaić, born Neralić. He was married to Sandra Mejovšek-Kljaić. Together they have a son and daughter.^[5]

Kljaić speaks Croatian, English and German.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

Player

Medveščak Zagreb

• Yugoslav Cup: 1986, 1987

RK Zagreb

• Croatian First League: 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 2000–01
• Croatian Cup: 1992, 1993, 1994
• Yugoslav First League: 1988–89, 1990–91
• Yugoslav Cup: 1991
• European Champions Cup: 1992, 1993
• EHF Super Cup: 1993

TV Grosswallstadt

• EHF Challenge Cup: 2000

RK Metković Jambo

• Croatian Cup: 2002

Yugoslavia

• 1990 World Championship Czechoslovakia - 4th place
• 1990 Goodwill Games Seattle - 2nd place

Croatia

• 1993 Mediterranean Games Languedoc-Roussillon - 1st place
• 1994 European Championship Portugal - 3rd place
• 1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta - 1st place
• 1997 World Championship Japan - 13th place
• 1999 World Championship Egypt - 10th place
• 1999 Super Cup Germany - 2nd place
• 2000 European Championship Croatia - 6th place
• 2001 World Championship France - 9th place

Individual

• Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport - 1992, 1994

As coach

Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb

• Croatian First/Premier League: 2006--07, 2010-11
• Croatian Cup: 2007, 2011

Saudi Arabia

• 2013 World Championship Spain - 19th place
• 2014 Asian Championship Bahrain - 6th place
• 2015 World Championship Qatar - 22nd place
• 2016 Asian Championship Bahrain - 4th place

Al-Rayan SC

• AHF Champions League Finalist: 2013

Orders

• Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar – 1995^[6]