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Samir Handanoviฤ
Slovenia
14 July 1984
goalkeeper
is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Since August 2024, he is the head coach of Inter Milan's under-17 team.
Before moving to Italy, Handanoviฤ played in his home country of Slovenia. In 2004, he was acquired by Udinese but spent the next few years on loan, playing for teams such as Treviso, Lazio and Rimini. Handanoviฤ returned to Udinese ahead of the 2007โ08 season, where he played as a starter for the next five years. In the next season, he also played European football for the first time, making his debut in UEFA Cup. After five years as a starter and more than 200 appearances, Handanoviฤ joined Inter Milan in July 2012. In February 2019, he was named club captain, while in September, he made his 300th appearance for the club and subsequently went on to reach the 2020 UEFA Europa League final that season. He made his 500th Serie A appearance in February 2021, and won his first trophy that May by winning the title.
Having previously represented the Slovenia under-21 team, Handanoviฤ made his senior international debut for Slovenia in 2004. He went on to earn 81 caps for his country, the most by a goalkeeper and played for them at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Nicknamed Batman, due to his acrobatic saves, he is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation, and is one of only four non-Italian keepers to be named Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year, winning the honour three times. A penalty saving specialist, during the 2010โ11 Serie A season he saved a total of six penalty kicks, equalling an all-time league record set in the 1948โ49 season. During the 2019โ20 season, he equalled Gianluca Pagliuca's record of most penalties saved in Serie A with his 24th stop. He broke the record the following season on 17 October 2020.
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