Ivan_Miljkovic

Ivan Miljković

Ivan Miljković

Serbian volleyball player

Ivan Miljković OLY (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Миљковић [ǐʋan mǐːʎkoʋitɕ]; born 13 September 1979) is a former Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team in 1998–2012, Olympic Champion 2000, European Champion (2001, 2011), medalist of World Championship, World Grand Champions Cup, World Cup and World League.

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After his active playing career Ivan reminded engaged in sport in different positions (governance, marketing, campaigns, management). After sport career resumed with education in economy and finance in order to get more insights about PE, VC and RE investments and M&A transactions.

Ivan has a strong interest in technologies such as blockchain, smart contracts, NFTs and Metaverse.

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[1] in Ostrava, 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).

Miljkovic with Serbia national team

On 18 July 2007 he signed a contract with the M. Roma Volley. The following year, on 5 July 2008, Olympiacos, announced that he will be continuing his career in Greece. 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 Turkey.[2] With Fenerbahçe he won 2011 and 2012 Turkish volleyball league, 2012 Turkish Cup, 2011 and 2012 Turkish Super Cup and 2014 European Challenge Cup. Miljković played for Fenerbahçe Grundig in 2010–2015.[3] Miljković in 2015 sing in Italian club Cucine Lube Civitanova. Miljković in 2016 back to Turkey League.[4]

He ended up his career after achieving gold medal of Turkish Championship in May 2017 with Halkbank Ankara team.[5]

National team

He played in the national team of FR Yugoslavia 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, Nikola Grbić, Andrija Gerić, Goran Vujević) won the Olympic gold medal.[6][7] 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).[8]

Sports business professional career

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

CEV Challenge Cup

CEV Cup

National League

  • Champions Italia – 2005–2006
  • Champions Greece – 2008–2009, 2009–2010
  • Champions Turkey – 2010–2011, 2011–2012, 2016–2017
  • Champions Qatar – 2009, 2010, 2012

Individually

Record

References

  1. [1]
    Milosavljevic, Zoran (February 14, 2008). "Love of volleyball keeps Ivan Miljkovic going". Reuters. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Ivan Milijkovic signed a two-year contract
  3. [3]
    Ivan Miljkovic Fenerbahçe’de – fenerbahce.org – October 30, 2010
  4. [4]
    Big Singing Of Halkbank – Ivan Mijković!
  5. [5]
    Legendarny siatkarz Ivan Miljković zakończył karierę. Opuścił parkiet jako mistrz, ze łzami w oczach - wp.pl - 04-05-2017
  6. [6]
    Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Serbia and Montenegro Volleyball at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on May 8, 2010. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
  7. [7]
    Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ivan Miljković". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
  8. [8]
    Geni about – Ivan Miljković
  9. [9]
    "Η χρυσή βίβλος της Volleyleague". volleyleague. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
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    volleyball-movies.net Best volleyball players in the history
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    The World's Best Scorers In The Rally Scoring Era
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