Radisav "Čile" Pavićević (; 12 October 1951 – 19 February 2019) was a Serbian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player who competed for Yugoslavia in the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

Club career

Pavićević started out at

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and served the club for over a decade, before moving abroad to Germany. He would go on to play for SG Dietzenbach (1980–1982) and TuRU Düsseldorf in the

Handball-Bundesliga The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 to 2012, the league was sponsored by Toyota and was officially called the ''Toyota Handball-Bundesliga''. In 2012 the Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) became t ...

International career

At international level, Pavićević represented

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in two

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, winning the bronze medal in

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. He also competed at the

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* 1951 births 2019 deaths Serbian male handball players Yugoslav male handball players Olympic handball players for Yugoslavia Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 1975 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1979 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia Mediterranean Games medalists in handball RK Crvenka players Handball-Bundesliga players Serbian expatriate handball players in Germany Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in West Germany {{Yugoslavia-handball-bio-stub