Dragan Travica | |||||
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Full name | Dragan Travica | ||||
Nationality | Italian | ||||
Born |
Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia |
August 28, 1986 ||||
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 | ||||
Number | 4 (club), 13 (national team) | ||||
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Last updated: 6 February 2017 |
Dragan Travica (born 28 August 1986) is an Italian volleyball player, a former member of Italy men's national volleyball team and Iranian club Shahrdari Urmia, 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).
He was born in Zagreb, Croatia, the son of Serbian volleyball player and head coach Ljubomir Travica. His sister is the wife of Italian Volleyball player Cristian Savani.
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.