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| Full name | Svetlana Kitić | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
19 June 1960 Tuzla, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1976–1980 | Jedinstvo Tuzla | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1980–1992 | Radnički Belgrade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996–2000 | Željezničar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000–2006 | Jedinstvo Tuzla | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1980–1991 | Yugoslavia | 202 | (911) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Svetlana Kitić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана Китић, born 19 June 1960) is a Bosnian Serb retired professional handball player who competed at the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia, and was part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team in the early 2000s. In 2010, she was voted the best female handball player ever by the IHF.[1][2]
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Biography
Kitić was born in Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina, later in her career she returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, and simultaneously coached and played for Sarajevo based handball club Željezničar and later for Jedinstvo, club from her hometown Tuzla and where she started professional career in handball as 16-year-old girl. Moreover, she played together with her eldest daughter Mara Bogunović on Jedinstvo's first team. In 2002, she entered Bosnian women's national handball team which took part in qualifications for 2003 World Championship in Zagreb. Bosnia with Kitić reached the barrage but failed to qualify. After that Kitić took the role of Director of Bosnian women's national handball team and served between 2006 and 2008.[3][4]
She last played for Radnički in Belgrade, Serbia.[5]
In 1980 she won the silver medal with the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches and scored 29 goals. Four years later she won the gold medal as member of the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches and scored 22 goals. In all her representative career she played 202 matches and scored the incredible number of 911 goals. She was voted World Player of the Year 1988 by the International Handball Federation.[6]
Awards
She won the Oscar of Popularity for the year 2010 in Serbia.[7]
Personal life
At the age of 19, Kitić married a former Bosnian football player Blaž Slišković, they divorced after four months. She later married handball player Dragan Dašić in 1982 with whom she has a son, but divorced him after four years of marriage. In 1988, she married manager Goran Bogunović with whom she had a daughter Marina (Mara), they split in 1990. In 2007, she married Milan Magic with whom she took part on a reality television show; their marriage ended in 2014. Kitić is a mother of three adult children. She resides in Belgrade with her family.[8] [9]
Honours
Player
Radnički Belgrade
- Yugoslav Women's Handball Championship: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987
- Yugoslav Women's Handball Cup: 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992
- Women's EHF Champions League: 1975–76, 1979–80, 1983–84
- Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 1985–86, 1990–91, 1990–91, 1991–92
Yugoslavia Youth
- IHF Women's Junior World Championship: 1977, third-place 1979
Yugoslavia
- Summer Olympics: runner-up 1980, 1984
- IHF World Women's Handball Championship: runner-up 1990
- Mediterranean Games: 1979
References
- ^ "Sportin.ba ...najbrže sportske vijesti - Svetlana Kitić najbolja rukometašica Svijeta svih vremena". Archived from the original on 6 August 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ^ "Svetlana Kitić najbolja rukometašica svih vremena".
- ^ "Svetlana Kitić: Najbolja rukometašica svih vremena". Svijet Rukometa (in Bosnian). Svijet Rukometa/Oslobodjenje. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ "U Tuzli promovisana knjiga o najboljoj rukometašici". SportSport.ba (in Bosnian). October 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ Svetlana Kitić za "Ginisa"
- ^ "Previous World Handball Players". International Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 1 January 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2009.
- ^ "Oskar popularnosti za 2010". Hello.rs
- ^ "Pulsonline: Svetlana Ceca Kitić". Pulsonline.rs, 9 jul 2017.
- ^ "Ispovest Svetlane Cece Kitić". Gloria.rs, Maja Gašić, 5.10.2017.
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