Bilal Šuman


Bilal Šuman is a Bosnian former handball player and current coach. He has coached Danish Men's Handball League club KIF Kolding and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Career

As a player, he played in the right wing position for Igman Ilidža and Eurofarm Pelister 2 in the former Yugoslavia and for KIF Kolding in Denmark and has also represented the Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national handball team, making 32 appearances and scoring 124 goals. With KIF Kolding he won the 1996 Danish Men's Handball Cup and was named MVP for the tournament. He is the only Bosnian to have been so. He was also the first non-Dane to win the award.
As a coach, Šuman worked at Kolding where he won the 2013–14 Håndboldligaen and qualified Bosnia and Herzegovina for the 2020 EHF European Men's Handball Championship. He remained as Bosnia's coach until 17 February 2021.

Personal life

Šuman's son, Benjamin, is also a professional handball player who plays as a left winger for his father's former club Kolding.

Honours

Player

KIF Kolding
  • Herreligaen: 1992–93, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06
  • Danish Cup: 1998–99, 2001–02, 2004–05
Individual

Coach

KIF Kolding
Individual