Croatia national handball team
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| Nickname | Pakleni (Hell Boys) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Association | Croatian Handball Federation |
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| Coach |  Lino Červar |
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| Most caps | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 2 (First in 1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Gold medal, 1996 and 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Handball Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 7 (First in 1995) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Champion, 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 8 (First in 1994) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Runner-up, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Croatian national handball team is a handball team that represents Croatia in the international matches and has been playing since the country's independence in the early 1990s. The team is controlled by the Croatian Handball Federation.
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[edit] Results at the international tournaments
Despite of its relatively short history, the Croatian team has already made some significant results at the international tournaments. During the 1990s they placed third at the 1994 European Championship and second at the 1995 World Championship before eventually winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
After these successes they have been going through the time without such good results until they eventually made their comeback by winning the 2003 World Championship. In 2004 they were fourth at the European Championship, but won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics later that year. After these results it was logical that they were one of the favorites of the 2005 World Championship, but lost to Spain in the final match.
In 2006 the team finished fourth at the European Championship, where they have qualified for the semifinals by winning the group in the main stage, but were subsequently defeated by Slovenia in the semifinals and Denmark in the third place match.
[edit] European Championship record
- 1994 - Third-place
- 1996 - Fifth-place
- 1998 - Eighth-place
- 2000 - Sixth-place
- 2002 - Sixteenth-place
- 2004 - Fourth-place
- 2006 - Fourth-place
- 2008 - Second-place
[edit] World Championship record
- 1938 - Was part of Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- 1942 - Not held, represented as Independent State of Croatia
- 1946, 1950 - Not held, was part of communist Yugoslavia
- 1954 to 1990 - Was part of communist Yugoslavia
- 1993 - Did not qualify
- 1995 - Second-place
- 1997 - Thirteenth-place
- 1999 - Tenth-place
- 2001 - Ninth-place
- 2003 - Champion
- 2005 - Second-place
- 2007 - Fifth-place
[edit] Olympics record
- 1936:
- 1972: part of Yugoslavian team (champions)
- 1976: part of Yugoslavian team (fifth)
- 1980:
- 1984:
- 1988:
- 1992:
- 1996: Gold medal
- 2000:
- 2004: Gold medal
- 2008:
- 2012:
[edit] Mediterranean Games record
- 1993: Champion
- 1997: Champion
- 2001: Champion
[edit] Teams on the Olympics
[edit] During Yugoslavia
Until 1991., Croatia participated in Yugoslavian national team.
At the 1972 Olympics, Yugoslavia won gold, and following Croatian staff participated: players Hrvoje Horvat, Albin Vidović, Zdravko Miljak, Miroslav Pribanić, Zdenko Zorko, Dobrivoje Selec (reserve player) and coach Vlado Stenzel (also written as Štencl).
At the 1976 Olympics, Yugoslavia was fifth, and following Croatian staff participated: players Hrvoje Horvat, Zdravko Miljak, Željko Nimš, Zvonimir Serdarušić, Zdenko Zorko and coach Ivan Snoj.
At the 1980 Olympics, Yugoslavia was sixth, and following Croatian staff participated: players Pavle Jurina and Stjepan Obran.
At the 1984 Olympics, Yugoslavia won gold, and following Croatian staff participated: players Mirko Bašić, Pavle Jurina and Zdravko Zovko .
At the 1988 Olympics, Yugoslavia won bronze, and following Croatian staff participated: players Mirko Bašić, Boris Jarak, Alvaro Načinović, Goran Perkovac, Iztok Puc, Zlatko Saračević and Irfan Smajlagić.
[edit] As independent Croatia
At the 1992 Olympics, Croatia hasn't participated, neither came to chance to compete, because of influence of certain officials in IOC, that prevented participation of Croatian handballers on the Olympics, even in the qualification tournaments, unlike Croatian basketball team.
At the 1996 Olympics, Croatia won gold. The team was: Vladimir Jelčić, Goran Perkovac, Irfan Smajlagić, Božidar Jović, Alvaro Načinović, Vladimir Šujster, Bruno Gudelj, Nenad Kljajić, Iztok Puc, Zoran Mikulić, Patrik Ćavar, Venio Losert, Valner Franković, Slavko Goluža, Valter Matošević and Zlatko Saračević. Coach was Velimir Kljajić.
Croatia hasn't qualified for the 2000 Olympics.
At the 2004 Olympics, Croatia won gold. The team was: Blaženko Lacković, Venio Losert, Valter Matošević, Petar Metličić, Vlado Šola, Ivano Balić, Davor Dominiković, Mirza Džomba, Slavko Goluža, Nikša Kaleb, Denis Špoljarić, Goran Šprem, Igor Vori, Drago Vuković, Vedran Zrnić. Coach: Lino Červar, asst. coaches: Irfan Smajlagić and Zdenko Zorko.
[edit] Famous players
[edit] Famous coaches
[edit] Current squad
This list represents the Croatian squad at the 2008 European Championship. The current selector of the team is Lino Červar.
- 2 - Nikša Kaleb
- 3 - Renato Sulić
- 4 - Ivano Balić
- 5 - Domagoj Duvnjak
- 6 - Blaženko Lacković
- 9 - Igor Vori
- 10 - Davor Dominiković
- 12 - Vjenceslav Somić (goalkeeper)
- 13 - Zlatko Horvat
- 14 - Drago Vuković
- 16 - Dragan Jerković (goalkeeper)
- 18 - Denis Špoljarić
- 19 - Petar Metličić
- 22 - Josip Valčić
- 23 - Ljubo Vukić
- 24 - Tonči Valčić
- 25 - Mirko Alilović (goalkeeper)
- 27 - Ivan Čupić
Out injured:
- 7 - Vedran Zrnić
- 11 - Mirza Džomba
[edit] External links
- Croatian Handball Federation (Croatian)
- Spanish Handball
- European Beach Handball community
- Handball files download
- Rukomet (Croatian)
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