Dragan Travica | |
Nationality: | Italian |
Birth Date: | 28 August 1986 |
Birth Place: | Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Height: | 2.00 m |
Weight: | 94 kg |
Spike: | 335 cm |
Block: | 320 cm |
Position: | Setter |
Currentclub: | Olympiacos |
Currentnumber: | 14 |
Years: | 2000–2002 2002–2003 2003–2005 2005–2006 2006–2008 2008–2009 2009–2011 2011–2013 2013–2015 2015–2016 2016–2017 2017 2017–2020 2020–2022 2022– |
Teams: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Olympiacos Piraeus |
Nationalyears: | 2007– |
Dragan Travica (born 28 August 1986) is an Italian volleyball player, former member of the Italy men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for Olympiacos Piraeus, bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games, silver medalist at the European Championship (2011, 2013), bronze medalist of the World League (2013, 2014) and Italian Champion (2012).
He was born in Zagreb, Croatia, the son of Serbian volleyball player and coach Ljubomir Travica, but he grew up in Italy, where his father played volleyball and later coached. His sister is the wife of another Italian volleyball player Cristian Savani.
He started his career with Sisley Treviso's youth team and, after one year with Sira Cucine Falconara, he debuted in the Serie A1 (Italy's top division) in 2004 with Kerakoll Modena. In 2005-2006 he played in the Serie A2 at Crema, obtaining the promotion to Serie A1 and winning the award as best Under-23 player in the category. The following year he again played in A2 in Milan, again obtaining the promotion and the A2 Italian Cup.
Travica debuted for Italy national team in 2007 at Forlì. He later played for Modena again and then for Monza, while in 2011-2013 he was a player of Lube Banca Macerata. Then he played for Russian club Belogorie Belgorod.