Dragan Travica
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| Full name | Dragan Travica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 28, 1986 Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg (216 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 335 cm (132 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 325 cm (128 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Setter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team |  Shahrdari Urmia VC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 (club), 13 (national team) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dragan Travica (born 28 August 1986) is an Italian volleyball player, a former member of Italy men's national volleyball team and Russian club Belogorie Belgorod, bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games, silver medalist at the European Championship (2011, 2013), bronze medalist of the World League (2013, 2014) and Italian Champion (2012).
Personal life
He was born in Zagreb, Croatia, the son of Serbian volleyball player and head coach Ljubomir Travica. He has sister Mihaela, who is Cristian Savani's wife.
Career
He started his career with Sisley Treviso's youth team and, after one year with Sira Cucine Falconara, he debuted in the Serie A1 (Italy's top division) in 2004 with Kerakoll Modena. In 2005-2006 he played in the Serie A2 at Crema, obtaining the promotion to Serie A1 and winning the award as best Under-23 player in the category. The following year he again played in A2 in Milan, again obtaining the promotion and the A2 Italian Cup.
Travica debuted for Italy national team in 2007 at Forlì. He later played for Modena again and then for Monza, while in 2011-2013 he was a player of Lube Banca Macerata. Then he played for Russian club Belogorie Belgorod.
Sporting achievements
Clubs
2013/2014 - with Belogorie Belgorod
National championships
- 2011/2012 Italian Championship, with Lube Banca Macerata
- 2012/2013
Italian SuperCup 2012, with Lube Banca Macerata - 2013/2014 Russian SuperCup 2013, with Belogorie Belgorod
- 2014/2015 Russian SuperCup 2014, with Belogorie Belgorod
- 2014/2015
Russian Championship, with Belogorie Belgorod - 2015/2016 Turkish SuperCup 2015, with Halkbank Ankara
- 2015/2016 Turkish Championship, with Halkbank Ankara
National team
- 2011 CEV European Championship
- 2012
Olympic Games - 2013 FIVB World League
- 2013 CEV European Championship
- 2014 FIVB World League
Individually
- 2011 CEV European Championship - Best Setter
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- People from Zagreb
- Italian people of Serbian descent
- Italian men's volleyball players
- Italian volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players of Italy
- Volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Italian Champions of men's volleyball
- Italian expatriates in Russia
- Expatriate volleyball players in Russia
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- Expatriate volleyball players in Turkey
- Serb diaspora sportspeople
- Italian volleyball biography stubs