Slobodan Kovač | |||||||
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Full name | Slobodan Kovač | ||||||
Born |
Veliko Gradište, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
September 13, 1967 ||||||
Hometown | Serbia | ||||||
Height | 200 cm (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||
Coaching information | |||||||
Current team | Sir Safety Perugia | ||||||
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Slobodan Kovač (born September 13, 1967 in Veliko Gradište) is a Serbian former volleyball player and current coach. In 2014, he was signed as the head coach of the Iran men's national team until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. But, he was sacked after 2015 World Cup and replaced with Raúl Lucio Lozano. Previously competing for Yugoslavia he won a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and won his first gold medal with the Yugoslav team at Sydney at the 2000 Summer Olympics at the age of 33. Kovač is 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) in height.
In 2010-2014 and again in 2015-2016, he was coach of SIR Safety Perugia, reaching two times the final of Superlega, Italy's top level club championship.
Vojvodina
Pegah
Radnički Kragujevac
Sir Safety Perugia
Iran men