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ZORAN TERZIĆ, HEAD COACH OF THE SERBIAN FEMALE VOLLEYBALL NATIONAL TEAM
Gazing towards
Rio
We have remarkable people in various areas, but the truth is that no one has contributed more to the
affirmation of Serbia than our sportsmen. Our supreme results are oten a mystery to us as well. We
don’t have any money, strong leagues or good infrastructure. It seems, however, that the excellent work
of experts and sportsmen is behind it all. If we emphasize and exaggerate our shortcomings so oten,
we must also be aware of our extraordinary virtues. We should not give up on our unique features and
values, because that is what makes us a nation among nations
By: Dejan Bulajić
We found Zoran Terzić on his way
to Bucharest, with his present
team, Romanian “Targovishte”.
During his prosperous career, he has been
working with several clubs simultaneously
with being the Serbian female national team
head coach. The job is the same on both levels,
but the feeling is completely different.
– The feeling of working in the national
team is incomparable. What we
experience in the club is on the level of
an ordinary job, which we try to do the
best we can. The national team, however, is
something else. It brings, but also requests
much more than ordinary trainings and
games. Each success is experienced with
much stronger emotions, and the failures
are more difficult to handle. At least this is
how I feel it and express it clearly.
He has been in female volleyball for seventeen
years already, although, at the beginning
of his coaching career, he never even
thought this would be his focus.
– I admit that I have rejected such a
possibility at one point of time. I simply
believed that working with ladies is more
difficult, mainly due to their specific emotional
set. I was convinced there were
great differences between female and male
volleyball, so for a long time I resisted the
suggestion of Aleksandar Boričić to take
over the “Zvezda” female team. However,
only a few months later, I realized I was
wrong. Women are able to commit to
sports with the same passion as men, perhaps
even bigger. They are disciplined and
very persistent. And, what’s especially important,
they can be very loyal to the team
and coach. My prejudice didn’t last long,
so this became an important life experi-
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