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PVK Jadran CKB is a water polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...

 club from Herceg Novi
Herceg Novi
Herceg Novi is a coastal town in Montenegro located at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 inhabitants...

, Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

. It takes part in the Montenegrin Water Polo Cup
Montenegrin Water Polo Cup
Montenegrin Water Polo Cup is a national water polo cup played in Montenegro. It is organized by the Water Polo and Swimming Federation of Montenegro.-Teams participating in 2006/07:*VK Bijela - Bijela...

.

History

PVK Jadran was founded in the summer of 1926 as a merger between two water polo clubs, Bijela Vila and Spjaža. It was then registered at the Swimming Federation of Yugoslavia. It was the only water club in the Bay of Kotor
Bay of Kotor
The Bay of Kotor in south-western Montenegro is a winding bay on the Adriatic Sea. The bay, sometimes called Europe's southernmost fjord, is in fact a submerged river canyon of the disintegrated Bokelj River which used to run from the high mountain plateaus of Mount Orjen...

 region and played against teams from Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
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. PVK Jadran's first win was when they had beaten VK Građani, the best clubs in Yugoslavia at the time after VK Jug and VK Jadran.

After World War II
World War II
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 in 1945, the national championship was held in Ljubljana
Ljubljana
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 and Jadran went, representing Montenegro, and won fourth place.

2007/08 squad

Višeslav Sarić (Feb 2, 1977) Drago Pejaković (May 28, 1980) Marko Elez (Sep 9, 1980) Danijel Premuš (Apr 15, 1981) Miloš Šćepanović
Miloš Šcepanovic
Miloš Šćepanović is a Montenegrin water polo player. He was a member of the Montenegro men's national water polo team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. There the team reached the semifinals, where it was defeated by Hungary and then met Serbia in the bronze medal match. They were defeated with the...

 (Oct 9, 1982) Richard van Eck (Mar 8, 1983) Nikola Vukčević
Nikola Vukcevic (water polo)
Nikola Vukčević is a Montenegrin water polo player. He is a member of the Montenegro men's national water polo team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The team reached the semifinals, where they were defeated by Hungary and will meet Serbia in the bronze medal march....

 (Nov 14, 1985) Ljubomir Vrbica (Sep 8, 1985) Aleksandar Ivović
Aleksandar Ivovic
Aleksandar Ivović is a Montenegrin water polo player. He is a member of the Montenegro men's national water polo team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The team reached the semifinals, where they were defeated by Hungary and will meet Serbia in the bronze medal march.-References:* Aleksandar Ivović is...

 (Feb 24, 1986) Kevin Graham
Kevin Graham
Kevin Graham is a Canadian water polo player. He was a member of the Canada men's national water polo team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The team finished 11th out of the 12 teams in the tournament....

 (Apr 21, 1986) Novak Jelić (Jan 14, 1986) Luka Sekulić (Jul 1, 1987) Aleksandar Radović (Feb 24, 1987) Filip Klikovac (Feb 7, 1989)
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