BIOGRAPHY
Maja Savic’s career could be split into two: her time playing in Montenegro, and shining for Buducnost and the national team; and her time playing in Denmark, where she recorded the biggest successes of her club career.
The left wing was born in Yugoslavia, in what is now Montenegro, and followed several sports as a child. She was notably talented in athletics and was even invited to Belgrade to focus on athletics, but when a women’s handball club was reinstated in her home town, she took up handball. Her beginnings in the sport were not auspicious, as she scored an own-goal in her first match, but she was hooked.
Savic moved to Podgorica to join Buducnost just two years after she started playing handball, at the age of only 14. Buducnost were successful - reaching five EHF Champions League semi-finals - but had not lifted the top trophy, and Savic was persuaded by her teammate Bojana Popovic to move to Slagelse in Denmark. There, Savic won two of her three Champions League titles in four seasons; after she moved to Copenhagen, she added the Cup Winners’ Cup and the Danish championship to her trophies.
Savic moved back to Montenegro after the death of her father, and was persuaded to rejoin Buducnost for one more year. And it proved to be a superb year, with the club winning the Champions League, and Montenegro taking silver at the London 2012 Olympic Games. That added to Savic’s earlier World Championship bronze from 2001, and a bronze at the Beach Handball EURO in 2002. She was named All-star left wing at the 2001 World Championship.
Savic is now a coach, working as assistant to Popovic for both Buducnost and Montenegro.
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