Anja Spasojević is a Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n professional volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 player who plays as wing spiker for Universitet Belgorod

VC Universitet-Tekhnolog Belgorod

VC Universitet-Tekhnolog Belgorod is a Russian women's volleyball club based in Belgorod. It was established in 1984. It plays in the Russian Women Volleyball Superleague and in the Women's CEV Champions League.-Team 2009-2010:As of December 2009...

. She began her professional career in Red Star Belgrade

OK Crvena zvezda

Odbojkaški klub Crvena Zvezda is a professional volleyball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Its name Crvena Zvezda means Red Star and it's part of the SD Crvena Zvezda sports society. It has a men's and a women's section...

, and then played in Asystel Novara

Asystel Novara

Asystel Novara is an Italian volleyball club.The team participated in the Women's CEV Champions League 2007-08, finishing with the bronze medal. 8 of the 16 players in the 2007-2008 squad have represented various nations in the Olympic Games.-2010-11 squad:As of June 2010...

, Voléro Zürich

Voléro Zürich

Voléro Zürich is a Swiss volleyball club which is playing their home matches at the Sportanlage Im Birch in Zürich. It plays in the Women's CEV Champions League....

 and Fenerbahçe Acıbadem. With Serbia national team

Serbia women's national volleyball team

The Serbia women's national volleyball team is the national team of Serbia. It is governed by the Volleyball Federation of Serbia and takes part in international volleyball competitions....

, Spasojević won Bronze medal at the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship and Silver medal at the 2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship

2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship

The 2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 25th edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball...

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Personal life

Anja Spasojević is fluent in Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

, English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 and German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

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Controversies

Spasojević did not play for Serbia national team

Serbia women's national volleyball team

The Serbia women's national volleyball team is the national team of Serbia. It is governed by the Volleyball Federation of Serbia and takes part in international volleyball competitions....

 at the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 qualification tournament due to an injury, and it attracted lots of controversies. She explained she had had problems with injuries since the 2007 European Championship

2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship

The 2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 25th edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball...

, but that "some persons did not believe it was a serious injury". Spasojević also confirmed the conflict with the team manager Zoran Terzić and the rest of the team, and that the two had tried to settle things down. She announced she would not play for the national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but that she might return in the future.

Clubs

Crvena Zvezda

OK Crvena zvezda

Odbojkaški klub Crvena Zvezda is a professional volleyball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Its name Crvena Zvezda means Red Star and it's part of the SD Crvena Zvezda sports society. It has a men's and a women's section...

 (1998—04) Sant’Orsola Asystel Novara

Asystel Novara

Asystel Novara is an Italian volleyball club.The team participated in the Women's CEV Champions League 2007-08, finishing with the bronze medal. 8 of the 16 players in the 2007-2008 squad have represented various nations in the Olympic Games.-2010-11 squad:As of June 2010...

 (2004—07) Voléro Zürich

Voléro Zürich

Voléro Zürich is a Swiss volleyball club which is playing their home matches at the Sportanlage Im Birch in Zürich. It plays in the Women's CEV Champions League....

 (2007—08) Fenerbahçe Acıbadem (2008—09) Universitet Belgorod

VC Universitet-Tekhnolog Belgorod

VC Universitet-Tekhnolog Belgorod is a Russian women's volleyball club based in Belgorod. It was established in 1984. It plays in the Russian Women Volleyball Superleague and in the Women's CEV Champions League.-Team 2009-2010:As of December 2009...

 (2009—10) RC Cannes

RC Cannes

RC Cannes is a French volleyball club which is playing their home matches at the Palais des Victoires in Cannes.The team won Women's CEV Champions League twice, in 2001/2002 and 2002/2003.-Team Roster Season 2010-2011:...

 (2010–11)

Clubs

• 2006 Italian Super Cup - Champion, with Sant’Orsola Asystel Novara
  Asystel Novara
  Asystel Novara is an Italian volleyball club.The team participated in the Women's CEV Champions League 2007-08, finishing with the bronze medal. 8 of the 16 players in the 2007-2008 squad have represented various nations in the Olympic Games.-2010-11 squad:As of June 2010...
  
  
• 2006 CEV Top Teams Cup
  Women's CEV Top Teams Cup
  The CEV Top Teams Cup was an official competition for women's Volleyball clubs of Europe and took place every year from 1972/73 to 2006/07.Before 2001, it was the CEV Cup Winner's Cup. In 2007 it was renamed CEV Cup.-Cup Winners Cup:-Top Teams Cup:...
  
   - Champion, with Asystel Novara
• 2007 CEV Cup - Bronze Medal, with Asystel Novara
• 2009 Turkish Championship - Champion, with Fenerbahçe Acıbadem

National Senior Team

• 2006 FIVB World Championship - Bronze Medal
• 2007 European Championship
  2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship
  The 2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 25th edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball...
  
   - Silver Medal

External links

• Anja Spasojević at the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
  Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
  The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball , commonly known by the acronym FIVB, is the international governing body for the sport of indoor, beach and grass volleyball.. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland and its current president is Wei Jizhong .- History :The FIVB was founded...
  
  
• Anja Spasojević at the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball
  Confédération Européenne de Volleyball
  Confédération Européenne de Volleyball is the continental governing body for the sport of volleyball in Europe. Its headquarters are located in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.- Profile :...