For the hammer of the Serbian national team it will be the ninth season in Italy after the years in Perugia, Modena and Milan
Nemanja Petric knows the Italian championship perfectly. On the other hand, the 205-centimeter Serbian spiker, born in Srpsko on 28 July 1987, has already played for eight seasons in Italy. He arrived there, after experiences in Montenegro and Belgium, in 2011. Nemanja Petric’s volleyball career began at a youth level in the club of his hometown, Fap Livnica. In the 2005-2006 season he made his professional debut when he made his debut in the Serbian top category with the shirt of Mladi Radnik, where he remained for two years. In 2007 he joined Buducnost Podgorica, in the Serie A of Montenegro, a team with which he won a championship and two national cups. In 2010 he went to Belgium in the Axis-Lennik, in the Belgian top flight.
The following year he arrives in Italy. In 2011, in fact, he went to wear the Perugia shirt, in Serie A2. And it is part of the climb carried out by the Umbrian team. He won the Serie A2 championship in the 2011-2012 season and then stayed in Perugia for another two years in the Superlega.
Then the move to Modena, for his first three years in Emilia: from the 2014-2015 season to the 2016-2017 one. Three years in which Petric won a championship, two Italian Cups and two Italian Super Cups (in 2016 he was also judged as MVP of this event). In 2016 he won the tricolor, with Modena winning the series 3-0 in the playoff final for the Scudetto against Perugia: it is the DHL team coached by coach Angelo Lorenzetti and led on the field by Bruno and Earvin Ngapeth, who in the decisive game 3 scored 29 points with 57% in attack, 3 aces and 2 winning blocks. Petric closes that game3 with 11 points (with 45% in attack) and an ace.
In 2017 his transfer to Turkey to Halkbank Ankara, with which he won both the championship and the national cup. The following year he moved to Russia, going to wear the Belogorie Belgorod jersey: and also came a European triumph for Petric, as his team won the Challenge Cup by beating Monza.
Petric then returns to Italy. In 2019-2020 he plays in Milan, the following year he finally returns to Modena where he plays for another season. The “professor” played the last championship in Russia, at Belogorie Belgorod.
