Šprem At 29 I Got Injured And Became Aware Of What Life Is We Athletes Are Big Egotrippers

In cooperation with HOO's Career Center, the Sports Association of the City of Zagreb organized an interesting panel on the topic of employment of athletes after the end of their sports career With the skilful moderation of the General Secretary of the SSGZ, Tomislav Stojak, Olympic and world handball champion Goran Šprem, world karate champion Ivan Kvesić, European karate champion Maša Vidić (née Martinović), former handball national team member vesna milanović litre presented their interesting stories to the audience.

athletic representative Zlatan Žmirak The dean discovered the real thing The introductory presentation was given by Snježana Pejčić, head of the Career Center for Athletes at HOO, and Romana Caput Jogunica, president of HOO's Dual Career Commission, who stated that 12 Croatian companies have joined the employment support system.

Mario Baić, dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology, spoke about support for athletes in their studies He emphasized that recently there has been a regulation by the Rector's Board on the University's treatment of top athletes and that professors must no longer tell them to choose whether they want to study or play sports, as, not so long ago, a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Shipbuilding told the world gymnasts champion Tino Srbič.

And this also happened to Vesna Milanović Litre, Master of Economics employed in the Office for Control and Financing of EU Projects at the Croatian Employment Service: - As a student, it happened to me that the meeting of the national team and the colloquium overlapped And while coach Šojat allowed me to miss training in order to ask the professor to move the date of the colloquium to another group, the professor was adamant.

When I came to his office in the national team tracksuit, he told me: "Colleagues, coming to me with a coat of arms will not help you, you will not have the privilege Decide whether you want to play handball or study.

" 2 20 years later We discover what the golden Portuguese are doing: Kaleb is a diver, Šprem in tourism, Džomba works in construction Maša Vidić, Master of Pharmacy, fortunately, did not have such problems: - If there was such support in my time, I might have been more successful as athlete and as a student, but at that time there was no Career Center or anything like that, and everything about coordinating obligations came down to my personal engagement with the professor In my student days, I had a blackboard on which I wrote down all my important dates in sports and at college, and also planned how to avoid the collision of sports and university obligations.

Life on two tracks was not difficult for Maša, and this is also the case with her karate colleague Ivan Kvesić, a fifth-year physiotherapy student - I like when I have more obligations in a day, so I had too much time that year that I devoted to preparations for the Olympic Games.

During that period without studying, I thought too much about karate, analyzed the fights too much, and sometimes too much analysis leads to paralysis I function better the more obligations I have.

NO money handball legends about progress: There is no future with this investment in the sport Unfortunately for him, an injury to his shoulder made it impossible for Ivan to win an Olympic medal, and an injury to the same part of his body brought handball player Goran Šprem, today the executive director of travel agency Uniline, a turning point in his life: - The best thing happened to me when I was injured at the age of 29 and my club went bankrupt, because then I became aware of what life is.

That's when I reset myself, graduated from the College of Coaching, and when I found a job I was also lucky, and my employer gave me freedom because he was aware that he couldn't keep an athlete in a box Šprem is now in a situation where he is hiring and says that in this process he likes to give priority to athletes.

- I like to hire a person with the qualities that top athletes have He does not need to know much, he will learn, it is important that he is focused and tolerates stress well, that he does not give up, and such a person just needs to be guided well.

With me as a boss, there is only one rule, and that is the atmosphere Whoever violates it will get a kick in the ass.

the opinions of legends Metličić and Šprem are brutally honest: Everyone lacks self-criticism We think we are better than we are.

As an employer, Zlatan Žmirak, former champion of Croatia in shot put and ninth at the European Championship, thinks similarly He is the founder and owner of the increasingly successful company Lentismed, which exports medical equipment to 13 countries.

– When I finished my sports career, I thought about how I experienced a lot of failures in order to reach a success that was not valorized My first job was in sales, I thought it would be easy for me, but suddenly everyone says "no".

My world fell apart and I had to build it from scratch At the time, I thought that my playing sports was a waste of time, but only later did I realize that I achieve more than my colleagues precisely because I was an athlete, because I am more focused, because I want to succeed more and because I get up quickly even when I fall.

There is no overnight success Since he himself started recruiting athletes, Žmirak made a point about this topic as follows: - Young people think a lot about overnight success, they don't talk about plans, but about wishes, they see the top of the mountain, but not the mountain and how much they have to make an effort to climb it And that's why athletes are very good material that just needs to be shaped a little, and it is important that the ego of a successful athlete is broken down as soon as possible.

Goran Šprem emphasized the ego problem of athletes looking for work: - We athletes are big ego trippers, we think that we will be the best at what we do all our lives and then suddenly someone tells you that you are no longer important, that you are no longer the one who is being asked It's a sharp cut, both financially and socially, and during this transition to ordinary life, a lot of athletes go through hiccups.

Some do not want to be subordinates in a new career, and life goes on and the distance between those two lives is getting bigger It was also interesting to hear the table tennis legend Branka Batinić, master of economics, who complained that she has been looking for a job in the profession since 1995 in Croatia, and interesting career examples were presented by volleyball player Marija Anzulović and handball player Klaudija Bubalo, director of RK Lokomotiva, who is currently writing her doctorate .

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