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Vojvodina Volleyball Club was founded
in July 1946. During the first three decades of its existence, it
was an amateur club with its ups and downs, undergoing many organizational
changes, as well as changes of its name. (It was called "Sloga",
"Proleter", "Partizan" and "Student".). In the late seventies the
Club became stable. It regained its original name "Vojvodina", and
during the following two decades it grew into the most successful
Yugoslav volleyball club.
In
its long history the Club has won eleven titles of the Yugoslav
Champion, the last nine being in the row, and seven titles of the
Yugoslav Cup Winner. It placed third in the European Champions Cup
twice, and took the third place in the Cup-Winners Cup once.
Vojvodina has always provided, and is still
providing, a great number of elite volleyball athletes for the Yugoslav
National Team Selection, both Senior and Junior.
In the past decade only, as much as eighteen
players of Vojvodina were the members of the most successful Yugoslav
volleyball selection, while fourteen of its players entered the
Yugoslav Junior National Team Selection.
All medals won by the national "Blue Team"
in the second half of the nineties were won under the expert leadership
of the former coaches of Vojvodina: Mr Zoran Gajic, at the European
and World Championships and at the Olympic Games, and Mr. Milorad
Kijac, at the World Cup.
The best result ever reached by the Junior
Selection at a European championship 2000 with six players who were
under excellent guidance of Mr. Slobodan Galesev, current Head of
the Expert Team of Vojvodina.
A
record number of spectators in the Yugoslav volleyball league, some
10.000, is reached only when Vojvodina plays league matches. Since
1995, Vojvodina has been organizing all major matches of the Yugoslav
National Team Selection in Novi Sad. These matches have always been
largely attended, particularly the word competitions, when the number
of volleyball fans reaches 11.000, surpassing the hall capacity.
The Club has proved its organizational skills in 1998, as well,
when it organized in Novi Sad the Final Four Competitions Cup, although
the Club itself didn't take part.
Since January 1998, Vojvodina has got its
permanent Internet Home Page and its own web site www.okvojvodina.org.yu,
which has been visited by more than 30.000 visitors, so far. They
stayed at the site nine minutes on the average.
Since September 1998, Vojvodina has been
issuing its own magazine OK Wossa every second month, being the
first volleyball club in Yugoslavia to establish such a magazine.
Each year during the past decade, Vojvodina was recognized as the
most successful sports team in Novi Sad.
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