Vanja Udovičić

Vanja Udovičić
Minister of Youth and Sports
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 September 2013
Preceded by	Alisa Marić
Personal details
Born	(1982-09-12) 12 September 1982 (age 34) Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Political party	Serbian Progressive Party
Residence	Belgrade, Serbia

Vanja Udovičić
Personal information
Nationality	Serbian
Height	195 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	105 kg (231 lb)
Water polo information
Position	Centre Forward
Handedness	R
Career
Years Teams 1998–2003 2003–2005 2005–2007 2007–2010 2010–2012 2012–2013 Partizan Raiffeisen Jadran Herceg Novi Posillipo Naples Pro Recco Mladost Zagreb Radnički Kragujevac
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2003 2003–2006 2006–2013	Yugoslavia  Serbia and Montenegro  Serbia
Medal record Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team competition 2008 Beijing Team Competition 2012 London Team Competition World Championship 2005 Montreal Team competition 2009 Rome Team competition 2011 Shanghai Team Competition 2003 Barcelona Team Competition European Championship 2003 Kranj Team Competition 2006 Belgrade Team Competition 2012 Eindhoven Team Competition 2008 Málaga Team Competition 2010 Zagreb Team Competition FINA World League 2005 Belgrade Team Competition 2006 Athens Team Competition 2007 Berlin Team Competition 2008 Genova Team Competition 2010 Niš Team Competition 2011 Firenze Team Competition 2013 Chelyabinsk Team Competition 2004 Long Beach Team Competition 2009 Podgorica Team Competition FINA World Cup 2006 Budapest Team Competition 2010 Oreada Team Competition 2002 Belgrade Team Competition Mediterranean Games 2009 Pescara Team competition

Vanja Udovičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Вања Удовичић, pronounced [ʋâɲa udɔ̌ʋit͡ʃit͡ɕ]; born 12 September 1982) is a retired Serbian water polo player, currently performing the role of cabinet minister in the Serbian government under prime minister Aleksandar Vučić and deputy prime minister Ivica Dačić.

During an illustrious professional water polo career that spanned 15 seasons, Udovičić played for Partizan Belgrade, Jadran Herceg Novi, Posillipo Naples, Pro Recco, Mladost Zagreb and Radnički Kragujevac. His most notable achievements on the club level are winning the LEN Euroleague twice with Pro Recco. The first one in 2008 followed by another one in 2010, the final in which he scored 4 goals for his team bringing the title back to Pro Recco with his fellow countryman Filip Filipović contributing 2 goals.

With the Serbian national team, his most notable achievements are European gold for juniors in 2000, the gold medals from the World Championship in 2005 and 2009, European gold in 2003, 2006, and 2012, and Olympic silver in 2004 and bronze in 2008 and 2012.

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