Igor Kolaković

Igor Kolaković
Personal information
Nationality	Montenegro
Born	(1965-06-04) 4 June 1965 Titograd, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia
College(s)	University of Montenegro Faculty of Economics
Coaching information
Current team	Iran
Previous teams coached Years Teams 2000–2009 2006–2014 2010–2012 2013–2016 2017– Budućnost Podgorica  Serbia ACH Volley AS Cannes  Iran
Last updated: 7 February 2017

Igor Kolakovic (born (1965-06-04)4 June 1965 in Podgorica) is a Montenegrin male volleyball coach and retired player.^[1] He is currently the head coach of the Iran national volleyball team.

Personal life

Igor wife, Sandra, is the coach of the Serbia women's national handball team, and former handball national team player. Igor is Bachelor of business administration, graduated in 1989 of University of Montenegro Faculty of Economics. Aleksa Kolaković, son of Igor, played Saint-Raphael Var handball team.^[2]

Career

Kolakovic played as a setter for VC Buducnost Podgorica and Partizan Belgrade from 1979-1997, after which he became head coach of the Podgorica team. From his playing career, he remembers most fondly the two double crowns Yugoslav Championship and Supercup he won with OK Partizan. Igor Kolakovic replaced Ljubomir Travica as coach of the Serbia men’s national team ahead of the 2006 FIVB World Championship, after assisting him for three years. He was the coach of the Serbia national volleyball team from 2006 until 2014.^[3] He presentment as coached the team among others at the 2006 FIVB Volleyball World Championship Fourth rank and 2014 FIVB Volleyball World Championship Eighth rank. His remarkable work in 2010 gained a great success in 2010 FIVB Volleyball World Championship scilicet bronze medal for Serbia. He guided Serbia to a gold medal at the 2011 European Volleyball Championship and bronze at the 2013 European Volleyball Championship. He also helped his side Two silver medals 2008 FIVB World League and 2009 FIVB World League and along the bronze medalist in the 2010 FIVB World League. He resigned after eight years as coach of Serbia.^[4]At club level, he won the National championship in Serbia and Montenegro in 2002, 2004 and 2006 with OK Budućnost Podgorica as coach.^[5] In 2017 year was introduced as head coach of the Iran national volleyball team.^[6] He achieved the bronze medal of FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup with Iran national volleyball team which was the first world medal in their's history.

Player

Team	Country	From	To
Budućnost Podgorica	Yugoslavia	1979	1987
Partizan	Yugoslavia	1987	1991
Budućnost Podgorica	Yugoslavia	1991	1993
Partizan	Yugoslavia	1993	1994
Budućnost Podgorica	Yugoslavia	1994	1997

Managing

Team	Country	From	To
Budućnost Podgorica	Montenegro	2000	2009
Serbia National Team	Serbia	2006	2014
ACH Volley	Slovenia	2010	2012
AS Cannes	France	2013	2016
Iran National Team	Iran	2017	-

Achievement

References

External links

• Profile at Eurosport

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Ljubomir Travica	Head coach of Serbia 2006–2014	Succeeded by Nikola Grbić

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