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Sabahudin Topalbecirevic (born in 1964, Sarajevo) is one of the most famous sport commentators in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He started his career as a sport journalist at the end of 1992 on Bosnia and Herzegovina national television.
Very quickly he dragged attention of audience with his comments that were recognizable, emotional and based on knowledge.
He reported from the Olympic Games in Sydney and Beijing, 4 world and European championships in football, hundreds of broadcasts of Champions League, whereof 51 games live. He attended 19 finals of Champions League, where of 9 he broadcast for Public broadcaster service of Bosnia and Herzegovina. By this he is the absolute record holder in the ex-Yugoslavia.
He followed and reported from 5 European championships in basketball and live broadcast dozens of basketball, football and handball games of Bosnia and Herzegovina division and gained title of best commentator of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
His live broadcasts of football division of Bosnia and Herzegovina games, eternal
Derbies of Sarajevo and Željezničar, finale of Champions league between Bayern and Manchester in 1999 and Liverpool and Milan in 2005 long ago entered annals of commentator work. “What a hand this man has” is an anthology sentence after basketball game of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in 1997.
He followed winning title of Europe Champion of young basketball division of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Lithuania in 2014, winning of bronze medal of Amel Tuka on World Championship in Beijing and in his career in total he broadcast 44 final football and basketball games from European and world championships, Champions League finale, UEFA Cup, Cup Winners Cup in basketball, European championships and Olympic games- He was editor of sports program on Live broadcast service and on Federal Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 2006 to August 2008. In the period from August 2010 to June 2012 he worked as an executive editor of sports program on TV1.
He is author of several sport documentaries about great sport names from the ex-Yugoslavia. Back in 1998 in production of TV BiH he signs his first documentary “Blue story”, on life of Ivica Osima, one of the best coaches from these areas.
Additionally he is an author of the reportage on Elvir Baljic from 1999 titled “Prince Baljic”, when he signed contract for Real Madrid and became the most expensive payed player in the world, as well as a story about Sergej Barbaret, Mirza Delibasic and Elvir Bolic.
In 2014 in production of Al Jazeera Balkans he presented movie “Our Brasil story”, speaking about creating football division of Bosnia and Herzegovina in most difficult times until placement to the World Championship in Brasil 2014. He created show “Top goal” that for years has been most popular sport show on television of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2008 after Olympic games in Beijing he stopped working as the sports commentator. After 2 years break he returned to TV.
He is organizer and director of first sports symposium “SIMPOSAR” that took place for the first time in Sarajevo in 2012 on the topic “Sport successes in the function of the country promotion”. Symposium gathered true sport legends of the region such as Mirko Novosel, Ivica Osim, Faruk Hadžibegić, Duško Vujošević, Aleksandar Petrović, Abas Arslanagić, sportsman who won close to 80 medals on European, world championshups and Olympic games.
In the meantime SIMPOSAR became greatest regional sport symposium that in Sarajevo in its 5 editions brought to Sarajevo greatest sport stars: Don Showalter, Igor Štimac, Joško Vlašić, Amel Tuka, Ćiro Blažević, Davor Šuker, Dragan Džajić, Božo Maljković,Dr. Nebojša Popović, Jaen Tigana, Neven Spahija, Predrag Pašić, Mehmed Baždarević, Zlatan Nalić,Željko Pavličević, Željko Jerkov, Zdravko Reić, Božo Sušec, Robert Jarni, Ivica Tucak, Tadija Kačar, Stanko Poklepović, Josip Pandža, Rato Tvrdić, Gianni Ghedini, champions that you can learn from. Two movies had been screened “Our Brasil story” from 2014 and “We will be the world champions” from 2015, author Darko Bajic.
In 1997 he was chosen for the best sports journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in 2007 he won special award for the affirmation of sports in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As a director of Symposar he participated on „International conference on physical education and sports science” in Jaipur in 2017, India, as a key note speaker on the topic “Sport journalism”.
In the meantime in January 2014 he launched web portal brzevijesti.ba. At the moment he obtains duty of the Advisor for Sports of Minister of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He graduated sport management in Sarajevo.
He is married and father of two children.
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