Ivan Miljković

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.

Ivan Miljković
Miljković in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Ivan Miljković
Nationality	Serbian/Italian
Born	(1979-09-13) 13 September 1979 (age 43) Niš, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Hometown	Nis (Serbia)
Height	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)
Weight	100 kg (220 lb)
Spike	354 cm (139 in)
Block	333 cm (131 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Opposite
Current club	retired
Number	14
Career
Years Teams 1996–2000 2000–2007 2007–2008 2008–2010 2009 2010 2010–2015 2011 2015–2016 2016–2017 OK Partizan Lube Banca Macerata M. Roma Volley Olympiacos Piraeus → Al Rayyan → Al Rayyan Fenerbahçe Istanbul → Al Arabi Cucine Lube Civitanova Halkbank Ankara
National team
1998–2003 2003–2006 2006–2012 FR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro Serbia
Honours Men's volleyball Representing  FR Yugoslavia Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team World Championship 1998 Japan Team World Grand Champions Cup 2001 Japan Team World League 2002 Belo Horizonte Team European Championship 2001 Czech Republic Team 1999 Austria Team Representing  Serbia and Montenegro World Cup 2003 Japan Team World League 2003 Madrid Team 2005 Belgrade Team 2004 Rome Team European Championship 2005 Italy/Serbia and Montenegro Team Representing  Serbia World Championship 2010 Italy Team World League 2008 Rio de Janeiro Team 2009 Belgrade Team European Championship 2011 Austria/Czech Republic Team 2007 Russia Team
Last updated: 29 December 2017

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] 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).^[7]

Sports business professional career

• Chief Athletes Commission – Olympic Committee of Serbia
• Executive Board Member – Olympic Committee of Serbia
• 1st Vice President – Volleyball Federation of Serbia

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

•   2001/2002 – with Lube Macerata
•   2015/2016 – with Cucine Lube Civitanova

CEV Challenge Cup

•   2000/2001, 2004/2005, 2005/2006 – with Lube Macerata
•   2013/2014 – with Fenerbahçe

CEV Cup

•   2007–2008 – with M. Roma

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

• 2001 World League "Most Valuable Player"
• 2001 World League "Best Scorer"
• 2001 European Championship "Most Valuable Player"
• 2001 European Championship "Best Scorer"
• 2001 World Grand Champions Cup "Most Valuable Player"
• 2001 World Grand Champions Cup "Best Scorer"
• 2002 Serie A1 League "Most Valuable Player"
• 2002 World League "Most Valuable Player"
• 2002 World League "Best Scorer"
• 2003 World League "Most Valuable Player"
• 2003 World League "Best Scorer"
• 2005 World League "Most Valuable Player"
• 2005 World League "Best Scorer"
• 2005 World League "Best Server"
• 2005 European Championship "Best Server"
• 2005–06 Top Teams Cup "Most Valuable Player"
• 2005–06 Top Teams Cup "Best Scorer"
• 2005–06 Top Teams Cup "Best Blocker"
• 2006 Serie A1 League "Most Valuable Player"
• 2007 European Championship "Best Scorer"
• 2007–08 CEV Cup "Best Spiker"
• 2008 World League "Best Scorer"
• 2009 World League "Best Scorer"
• 2010 Greek Volley League "Most Valyable Player^[8]
• 2009–10 CEV Champions League "Best Scorer"
• 2011 European Championship "Most Valuable Player"
• 2011 Sportsperson of the Year of Niš
• Best Volleyball Player in the History by volleyball-movies.net^[9]
• Serbia's sport Association "May Award"
• 2013–2014 Challenge Cup "Most Valuable Player"

Record

• 37 Points – 2002 FIVB World League record^[10]
• 37 Points – 2005 FIVB World League record^[10]

References

1. Milosavljevic, Zoran (February 14, 2008). "Love of volleyball keeps Ivan Miljkovic going". Reuters. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
2. Ivan Milijkovic signed a two-year contract
3. Ivan Miljkovic Fenerbahçe’de – fenerbahce.org – October 30, 2010
4. Big Singing Of Halkbank – Ivan Mijković!
5. Legendarny siatkarz Ivan Miljković zakończył karierę. Opuścił parkiet jako mistrz, ze łzami w oczach - wp.pl - 04-05-2017
6. . Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on May 8, 2010. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
7. Geni about – Ivan Miljković
8. "Η χρυσή βίβλος της Volleyleague". volleyleague. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
9. volleyball-movies.net Best volleyball players in the history
10. The World's Best Scorers In The Rally Scoring Era

 

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Nikola Grbić	Serbia captain 2011	Succeeded by Bojan Janić
Awards
Preceded by   Andrea Giani   Piotr Gruszka	Most Valuable Player of European Championship 2001 2011	Succeeded by   Andrea Sartoretti   Dmitriy Muserskiy