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4 November 1966 (age 51) Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
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Goran Rađenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Рађеновић; born 4 November 1966 in Niš) is a retired Yugoslav and Serbian water polo player and now he is water polo coach. During his career he played in Partizan, Roma and Budva and won numerous national and international trophies. The most of his successes are from the time when he was part of national team of Yugoslavia. He played for national team 265 times and won Olympic, World and European Championship.
Goran Rađenović grew up in Blokovi, New Belgrade. He started swimming lessons with Goran Kasum (who also lived at the same place) when he was in the first grade.
Rađenović started playing water polo at the age of 8 in water polo Club Partizan from Belgrade. He played in Partizan for 18 years and went through all age groups. In younger categories he won many titles.
He made his senior debut for Partizan in 1982 when he was 16 years old and he played in Partizan until 1992.
Titles won with Partizan:
In 1992 Rađenović transferred from Partizan to Water polo Club Roma from Rome and for that club he played for four years.
Titles won with Roma:
His last season (1996/97) as a player he spent in Water polo Club Budva but earlier during 1994. He spent few month in Budva and won National Championship of Yugoslavia.
He went through all age groups of national team of Yugoslavia and with national team he won great number of medals and titles. For a national team he made debut in 1984 and in the following ten years he played 265 times for the team. This was the most successful period for water polo sport in Yugoslavia. Goran won two Olympic gold medals at two World Championships and for the first time, the European Championship was won by him as well. Rađenović was a member of a team that won Olympic gold in Seoul, World Championship gold medal in Perth and European Championship trophy in Athens.