Nationality Serbian | ||
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Born 9 July 1966 (age 50)
Belgrade, Yugoslavia ( 1966-07-09 ) | ||
Zoran Terzić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Терзић, born 9 July 1966) is a Serbian volleyball coach. He was the coach of the Serbia women's national volleyball team that competed at the 2015 Women's European Volleyball Championship. On club level he coaches Volero Zurich.
As a player, Terzić passed through all selections of the Red Star club in Belgrade between 1979 and 1986. He stopped playing in order to pursue his studies. He graduated at the Faculty of Physical Culture in Belgrade in 1998.
His first experience as a coach was as an assistant to Drago Nešić, head coach of the "IMT" Volleyball Club in Belgrade. In 1996, Terzić began working as a coach of the Red Star's junior team, with whom he won all available titles, from the championships of Belgrade to those of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia. At the suggestion of Aleksandar Boričić, head of the Red Star Volleyball Club, he started helping coach Red Star's women team, although it was not his original plan.
Under Terzić's leadership, Red Star girls interrupted the 8-year winning streak of OK Jedinstvo Užice and won the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons of the National League.
Terzić took over the national team of FR Yugoslavia in 2002 (later Serbia and Montenegro and then Serbia), leading his teams to numerous successes, including a bronze medal at the 2006 World Championship, a silver at the 2015 World Cup, the European Championship title in 2011, Serbia's first, and culminating with an Olympic silver at Rio 2016.
