Nikola Grbić

Nikola Grbić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Грбић; born 6 September 1973) is a Serbian professional volleyball coach and former player, a head coach of ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle.[1] He has been a member of Yugoslavia in 1995–2003, Serbia and Montenegro in 2003–2006 and Serbia in 2006–2010, gold medalist of the Olympic Games Sydney 2000, bronze medalist of the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, also participant of the Olympic Games (2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing), multimedalist of the World Championships, European Championships and World League, a two–time Italian Champion (2008, 2010), Russian Champion (2014). He was named European Player of the Year in 2007 and inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2016.

For the Yugoslav wrestler, see Nikola Grbić (wrestler).
Nikola Grbić
Grbić, coach of Serbian national team, at a press conference during World League in Tehran in July 2016.
Personal information
Nationality Serbian
Born (1973-09-06) 6 September 1973
Klek, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
College(s)BK University - Management in Sports
Coaching information
Current team ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
2014–2015
2015–2019
2016–2019
2019–		 Sir Safety Perugia
Serbia
Calzedonia Verona
ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Volleyball information
PositionSetter
Career
YearsTeams
1987–1990
1990–1994
1994–1995
1995–1996
1996–1997
1997–1999
1999–2000
2000–2003
2003–2007
2007–2009
2009–2013
2013–2014		 Gik Banat
Vojvodina Novi Sad
Gabeca Montichiari
TNT Traco Catania
Gabeca Montichiari
Alpitour Traco Cuneo
Sisley Treviso
Asystel Milano
Copra Piacenza
Itas Diatec Trentino
Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo
Zenit Kazan
National team
1991–1992
1995–2003
2003–2006
2006–2010		 Yugoslavia
FR Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  FR Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
2000 SydneyTeam
1996 AtlantaTeam
World Championship
1998 JapanTeam
World Grand Champions Cup
2001 JapanTeam
World League
2002 Belo HorizonteTeam
European Championship
2001 Czech RepublicTeam
1997 NetherlandsTeam
1995 GreeceTeam
1999 AustriaTeam
Representing  Serbia and Montenegro
World Cup
2003 JapanTeam
World League
2003 MadridTeam
2005 BelgradeTeam
2004 RomeTeam
European Championship
2005 Italy/Serbia and MontenegroTeam
Representing  Serbia
World Championship
2010 ItalyTeam
World League
2008 Rio de JaneiroTeam
2009 BelgradeTeam
European Championship
2007 RussiaTeam

Early life

Grbić was born in Klek, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He has an older brother Vladimir, who is also former professional volleyball player.

Personal life

From 2006, he is married with Stanislava and they have two sons who practice volleyball.

Career as player

Club

After the embargo was lifted in 1994, Nikola Yugoslavian national team career resumed at a time when he transferred to Italian club team Gabeca Montichiari, which started a 13-year career playing for eight different Italian teams and resulting in eight league titles from 1994 to 2013. He won two Championship titles in Italy (2008 Trentino – 2010 Cuneo), and one in Russia (2014 Zenit Kazan). He also won two CEV Euro Champions League titles (2000 Sisley – 2009 Trentino).[2]

National team

He started with senior national team in 1991, when he was 18 years old. Then, for two years (1992-1994) wasn't playing because of international embargo. He was a captain of his national team in 1999–2010. In 1996 Yugoslavia, including Grbić, won bronze medal of the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996. Nikola was honored as the European Championship Best Setter in 1997 as Yugoslavia earned the silver medal. In 1998 Yugoslavia on Volleyball at the World World Championship won a silver medal. At the next Olympics his team achieved gold of the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney. Yugoslavia went on to capture the 2000 Olympic Games gold-medal with a dominating three-set win over Russia in the finals. They beat Russia in final match (3-0).[3] Again, in 2010, with Serbia his team won a bronze medal. Nikola career was not over following Beijing as he helped Serbia win bronze at the 2010 FIVB World Championship in Italy where he was named Best Setter of the tournament. Nikola career was not over following Beijing as he helped Serbia win bronze at the World Championship.

Career as coach

In May 2014 he became head coach of Italian club Sir Safety Perugia.[4] On 3 February 2015 Grbić was announced new head coach of Serbia men's national volleyball team.[5][6] Nikola in the first step winner Silver medal at 2015 FIVB World League. In next year Serbia with powerful presence winner Gold medal 2016 FIVB World League. Serbia had lost their five previous appearances in World League final including three times to Brazil and last year’s against France, now after five silver medals and three bronze, in 2016 year won first Gold medal.[7]

Sporting achievements

As a player

Individually

As a coach
gollark: If you have a hidden piston door or something and wireless control I guess it makes sense?
gollark: There are valid reasons to spam arbitrary channels, like when someone had a wireless light controller which worked by just checking channel and reply channel, and I knew *approximately* what those were, and wanted to meddle with their lights. But doing it without a target in mind is just pointless.
gollark: Yes, this has always been my problem with door locks; they don't actually do anything in Minecraft's threat model.
gollark: Your program just does nothing interesting.
gollark: Do you mean your modem wasn't `open`ed? Because you don't need that to transmit.

See also

References
  1. POL M: Serbia national team head coach Grbić takes charge of Zaksa – worldofvolley.com – 20.05.2019
  2. Grbic excited to start work with Serbian team – fivb.org
  3. Yugoslavia Rolls Russia for First Gold – articles.latimes.com – 01-10-2000
  4. Perugia: L'Assessore ufficializza... Grbic allenatore Archived 2015-02-03 at the Wayback Machine – volleyball.it – 09-05-2014
  5. Pravi čovek za pravo mesto: Nikola Grbić selektor odbojkaša Srbije! – sport.blic.rs – 03-02-2015
  6. Nikola Grbic è il nuovo coach della Serbia. Le congratulazioni del presidente Sirci – legavolley.it – 03-02-2015
  7. Serbia win first ever World League title - FIVB.com – fivb.com – 17.07.2016
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Igor Kolaković		 Head coach of Serbia
2015–2019		 Succeeded by
Slobodan Kovač


Awards
Preceded by
Peter Blangé		 Best Setter of
CEV European Championship
2001
2003
2005		 Succeeded by
Vadim Khamuttskikh
Preceded by
Lloy Ball		 Best Setter of
FIVB World Cup
2003		 Succeeded by
Miguel Angel Falasca
Preceded by
Lloy Ball		 Best Setter of
FIVB World League
2009		 Succeeded by
Sergey Grankin
Preceded by
Denis Ignatyev		 Best Setter of
CEV Cup
2009/2010		 Succeeded by
Not awarded
Preceded by
Paweł Zagumny		 Best Setter of
FIVB World Championship
2010		 Succeeded by
Lukas Kampa
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