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Aleksa Kolaković (born August 10, 1997 in Podgorica) is a Serbian handball player, son of Igor Kolaković (famous volleyball coach) and Sandra Kolaković (ex. famous handball player). He is currently playing for Saint-Raphael Var Handball and national team of Serbia U21.

Personal life
Aleksa's father, Igor, is currently the coach of the Iran men's national volleyball team, he was also the coach of Serbia men's national team for 8 years and he won 7 medals. Igor is Bachelor of business administration, graduated in 1989 of University of Montenegro Faculty of Economics. Aleksa's mother, Sandra, was professional handball player, she won champions league with RK Krim in 2001, and she also has a bronze medal from world championship in Italy in 2001 with Ženska rukometna reprezentacija Srbije.

Career
Aleksa started playing handball at age of 7, his first handball steps he made in RK Gorica in 2004. RK Gorica was women's handball club and the only club at that moment in Podgorica. In 2005, first men's handball club arrives in Podgorica and Aleksa moves to it. RK Cepelin was lead by Miodrag Misko Popovic, ex. coach of Montenegro national team and former of lot of players such as Draško Mrvaljević, Vuko Borozan, Vladan Lipovina... After 8 years spent in RK Cepelin, Aleksa moves to Slovenia and he starts playing for RD Slovan in Ljubljana. After one year of good work with Bojan Čotar, ex. assist coach of Slovenia national handball team, Aleksa will move to France and he will continue his career in Saint-Raphael Var Handball where he's still playing.

National Team
Aleksa's road to national team was really difficult. He started playing for national team of Montenegro, he played some friendly games, but he was not good integrated into so he decided to stop playing for national team of Montenegro. After 2 years of pause, he started playing for national team of Serbia and he did two competitions. In 2014, he participated in European championship with national team of Serbia, and they finished 13. out of 16 teams. In 2015, he was not on the list of 16 players for World championship which took place in Russia. In 2016, he played European championship in Denmark and he finished in 14. place.