Svetlana Ognjenović

Svetlana Ognjenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана Огњеновић; born 26 January 1981) is a Serbian handball player. She is a member of the Serbian national team.

Svetlana Ognjenović
Svetlana Ognjenovic in 2017
Personal information
Born	(1981-01-26) 26 January 1981 (age 43) Osijek, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position	Left wing
Club information
Current club	Metz Handball
Number	21
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2001–2004	ŽRK Radnički Belgrade
2004–2005	ŽRK Knjaz Miloš
2005–2007	HC Naisa Niš
2007–2008	Slagelse FH
2008–2014	Metz
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Serbia	87[1]	(200)
Medal record Women's Handball Representing  Serbia World Championship 2013 Serbia Team competition Representing  Serbia and Montenegro Mediterranean Games 2005 Almería Team

Career

Ognjenović started at ŽRK Radnički Belgrade, and went on to play for ŽRK Knjaz Miloš and HC Naisa Niš in her home country. In 2007 she became Serbian champion.

She then went on to play for Danish side Slagelse FH, where she played for single year before moving to french Metz Handball. Here she won the French championship in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014, the French Cup in 2010 and 2013, and the French league cup in 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2013 she reached the final of the EHF Cup, but lost to Danish Team Tvis Holstebro. ^[2]

She retired after the 2013/14 season.

Prokop controversy

In 2009 in a Champions League match against Austrian Hypo Niederösterreich, the opposition coach, Gunnar Prokop, decided to invade the field and tackle Svetlana Ognjenović with 7 seconds remaining of the match. The score at the time was 27-27, and Prokop prevented a counter attack, that potentially could win the match.^[3]

Prokop would be banned from all handball activities for 1 year, received a 10.000 euro fine and Hypo NÖ had 1 point detracted.^[4][5]

References

1. "XXI Women's World Championship 2013. Team Roster, Serbia" (PDF). IHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
2. mosellesport.fr: Biographie
3. Youtube-video of the tackle
4. "EHF Arbitration Tribunal decision". European Handball Federation. 4 November 2009. Archived from the original on 7 November 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
5. Handball-Zampano Prokop: „Mir ist das wurscht“, diepresse.com, 19. Jänner 2010

External links

• EHF profile