Slobodan Soro

Slobodan Soro

Personal information
Born	December 23, 1978 Novi Sad, Serbia
Medal record Men's Water Polo Representing Serbia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team Competition 2012 London Team Competition World Championship 2009 Rome Team Competition 2011 Shanghai Team Competition European Championship 2006 Belgrade Team Competition 2012 Eindhoven Team Competition 2008 Málaga Team Competition 2010 Zagreb Team Competition FINA World League 2006 Athens Team Competition 2007 Berlin Team Competition 2008 Genova Team Competition 2010 Niš Team Competition 2011 Firenze Team Competition 2009 Podgorica Team Competition World Cup 2010 Oradea Team Competition Mediterranean Games 2009 Pescara Team Competition

Slobodan Soro (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Соро), (born December 23, 1978 in Novi Sad, Serbia ) is a Serbian water polo goalkeeper. He was a member of the Serbia men's national water polo team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics. Serbia won the bronze medal in both of those Olympics. He currently plays for Partizan Raiffeisen and is the number one goalkeeper for the Serbia men's national water polo team. With Serbia he won the 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championship. It was his second gold medal in the competition. In 2011 he won the National Championship and National Cup of Serbia, LEN Euroleague, LEN Supercup and Eurointer League with Partizan Raiffeisen .

Club career

Slobodan Soro played for numerus clubs, including VK Vojvodina, VK Beograd, VK Bečej, VK Dinamo, PVK Jadran and now VK Partizan.

VK Partizan

In July 2010, the goalkeeper of VK Partizan and Serbian national team, signed a new two-year contract with Serbian champions. Partizan had financial problems, so that at one time Soro's stay at the club was questioned, but in the end it was all denied by him signing a new contract.

Clubs he played for

• 2006–2008 Club Natació Sabadell
• 2008–____ Partizan Raiffeisen

National career

2012 Samaridis Cup

From 9 to 11 January 2012. Soro competed with his national team on the Greek island of Chios in the Samaridis Cup which was more a like preparation tournament for the upcoming 2012 European Championship held in Eindhoven. He and his team-mates finished second behind the Montenegrins on goal difference. However, Soro was named as the best goalkeeper of the tournament.

2012 Eindhoven

On 16 January, at the European Championship Soro had a brilliant game making 14 saves in the first game in an 8–5 win against Spain. On 29 January, Soro won the European Championship with his national team beating in the final Montenegro by 9–8. Unlike in the semifinal game against Italy were Soro was substituted by Branislav Mitrović because of the poor play, he absolutely dominated on the goal of Serbia in the final match. This was his second gold and overall fourth European medal.

Honours

Club

VK Bečej

• National Championship of Yugoslavia (1): 1999–2000
• National Cup of Yugoslavia (1): 1999–2000
• LEN Euroleague (1): 1999–2000

VK Partizan

• National Championship of Serbia (3): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
• National Cup of Serbia (4): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
• LEN Euroleague (1): 2010–11
• LEN Supercup (1): 2011
• LEN Cup (1): 1997–98
• Eurointer League (2): 2010, 2011

Individual

• FINA World Cup Best Goalkeeper (1): 2010 Oreada
• FINA World League Best Goalkeeper (1): 2011 Firenze
• Samaridis Cup Best Goalkeeper (1): 2012 Chios
• Serbia's sport association "May Award" : 2012