Nikola Karabatić

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Nikola Karabatić
Nikola Karabatić

Nikola Karabatić (2014)

Player information
Nickname "Neo, Kara, Niko"
birthday 11th April 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Niš , SFR YugoslaviaYugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia 
citizenship FranceFrance French
height 1.96 m
Playing position Back center
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Paris Saint-Germain
Jersey number 44
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
1990-1992 FranceFrance Colmar HB
1992-2000 FranceFrance Thau HB
2000–0000 FranceFrance Montpellier HB
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000–2005 FranceFrance Montpellier HB
2005-2009 GermanyGermany THW Kiel
2009-2013 FranceFrance Montpellier AHB
2013-2013 FranceFrance Pays d'Aix UC
2013-2015 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
2015– FranceFrance Paris Saint-Germain
National team
Debut on November 2, 2002
against RussiaRussia Russia
  Games (goals)
FranceFrance France 310 (1202)

Status: January 12, 2020

Nikola Karabatić successfully throwing a goal in the final of the European Handball Championship 2010 against Croatia. On the right Igor Vori .
Nikola Karabatić (2007)

Nikola Karabatić (born April 11, 1984 in Niš , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a French handball player . He plays for the French national handball team and since 2015 for the French club Paris Saint-Germain . He was elected world handball player in 2007, 2014 and 2016. With a total of 63 finals appearances at European Championships, Karabatić holds the record. In addition, as a national player, he held all three important titles (Olympic, world and European champions) in world handball twice in his career. According to unanimous opinions, Karabatić is one of the best players in handball history and is considered the most complete player in this sport.

Career

society

At the age of four Karabatić, son of a Serbian mother and a Croatian father from Vrsin near Trogir , left the former Yugoslavia because his father Branko Karabatić (former goalkeeper of the Yugoslav national team ) got a contract as a professional handball player in France . As a 17-year-old Karabatić played at Montpellier HB in the French first division and a year later in the French national team . With Montpellier he won the Champions League in 2003 and the French championship four times in a row from 2002 to 2005.

In 2005 he moved to THW Kiel , where Karabatić established himself as one of the most important regular players in the course of his first season, which is why the fans also voted him THW player for the 2005/06 season. In 2006 he was awarded the Kiel Sportsman of the Year award by the Kieler Nachrichten . During his four years in Kiel, Karabatić won the German championship every year and achieved the triple in 2007 (Champions League, championship and DHB Cup ). In 2007 and 2008 Karabatić was voted handball player of the year in Germany .

At the end of the 2008/09 season Karabatić left the THW Kiel. Together with his colleague Vid Kavtičnik he returned to his old club Montpellier HB for a transfer fee of 1.5 million euros . With Montpellier he won the French championship three more times (2010 to 2012) before moving to the newly promoted Pays d'Aix UC in February 2013 as part of the betting affair . Although he was able to celebrate relegation with his new team at the end of the season, he missed the national championship with his club for the first time after 11 titles in a row. In the summer of 2013 Karabatić moved to Spain for FC Barcelona . There he won the Spanish championship and the Spanish cup in the first year. In the 2014/15 season, Karabatić defended all national titles with Barcelona and also celebrated winning the Champions League. Karabatić became the fifth player to win this competition with three different clubs. He then joined the French association Paris Saint-Germain .

Between 2002 and 2020 he and his teams were only once (2013) non-national champions.

National team

Karabatić played his first international match for France on November 2, 2002 in the World Cup against Russia. With the national team, he won the European Championship in Switzerland in 2006 and was fourth at the 2007 World Cup in Germany . At the 2007 World Cup, he was also elected to the all-start team. At the Euro 2008 in Norway he won the election for most valuable player and also bronze. He won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games . A year later he won the World Cup in Croatia with France . At the beginning of 2010 he was again European champion in Austria and elected to the all-star team as the center of the back. For the first time in history, the French selection was European, world and Olympic champion at the same time from 2010 to 2012. At the 2011 World Cup , he defended the title with the French team. In the summer of 2012 he won the gold medal again at the Olympic Games in London and was re-elected to the Allstar team. In 2014 he was European champion and voted most valuable player of the tournament. In 2015 he became world champion for the third time in Qatar. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the silver medal and was re-elected to the Allstar Team. In 2017 he became world champion for the fourth time in his own country and was named the most valuable player of the tournament for the fourth time after a major handball event. In the following two tournaments, the European Championship 2018 in Croatia and the World Championship 2019 in Denmark and Germany, he won the bronze medal with the French selection. Karabatić has won nine gold medals, one silver medal and five bronze medals at major handball events with France.

Suspicion of betting manipulation in 2012

Karabatić was suspected of betting manipulation that allegedly occurred during a match between his club Montpellier HB and Cesson-Rennes Métropole HB in May 2012. In addition to Karabatić, who paused this game due to an injury, and his brother Luka, other players are said to have deliberately contributed to the defeat in order to enable relatives to win large bets of up to 250,000 euros. The players concerned faced three to five years imprisonment and fines of € 75,000 for sports corruption and fraud . Karabatić himself admitted after a police interrogation in early October 2012 through his lawyer that he was involved in the betting, but not in the game manipulation itself. On October 2, criminal proceedings were initiated against him. Karabatić was subsequently released on bail and subject to conditions. Since Karabatić was not allowed to meet people involved or employees of his club, he was no longer part of the Montpellier AHB squad from October 3, 2012. Karabatić returned to the squad on October 31, after the ban on contact was lifted. On January 31, 2013 Karabatić dissolved his contract with Montpellier HB; he moved to Aix-en-Provence. The six-game ban imposed on Nikola Karabatić by the LNH league in February was overturned by an FFHB appeals court on March 29, 2013. In July 2015, he was sentenced to a fine of 10,000 euros by a court in Montpellier. During the appeal hearing on February 1, 2017, two months' probation was added.

successes

society

National team

Awards

Seasonal balance sheets

season society Division Games Gates 7 meters Field gates
2001/02 Montpellier HB Ligue Nationale de Handball 14th 22nd - 22nd
2002/03 Montpellier HB Ligue Nationale de Handball 22nd 57 - 57
2003/04 Montpellier HB Ligue Nationale de Handball 23 69 - 69
2004/05 Montpellier HB Ligue Nationale de Handball 24 88 - 88
2005/06 THW Kiel Bundesliga 34 226 70 156
2006/07 THW Kiel Bundesliga 32 205 23 182
2007/08 THW Kiel Bundesliga 30th 216 29 187
2008/09 THW Kiel Bundesliga 26th 110 15th 95
2009/10 Montpellier HB Ligue Nationale de Handball 19th 83 - 83
2010/11 Montpellier HB Ligue Nationale de Handball 22nd 112 6th 106
2011/12 Montpellier HB Ligue Nationale de Handball 26th 76 - 76
2012/13 Montpellier HB Ligue Nationale de Handball 9 54 - 54
Pays d'Aix UC Ligue Nationale de Handball 13 80 - 80
2013/14 FC Barcelona League ASOBAL 28 123 13 110
2014/15 FC Barcelona League ASOBAL 24 99 3 96
2015/16 Paris Saint-Germain Ligue Nationale de Handball 18th 77 - 77
2016/17 Paris Saint-Germain Ligue Nationale de Handball 25th 98 - 98
2017/18 Paris Saint-Germain Ligue Nationale de Handball 22nd 80 - 80
total 411 1875 159 1716
Average per season 24.18 110.29 9.35 100.94

Swell:

family

His father Branko Karabatić was a handball player and coach until his death in 2011 and most recently coached the Tunisian national team . His brother Luka Karabatić also plays for the French club Paris Saint-Germain. He and his wife have a son and a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Nikola Karabatić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikola Karabatić's nicknames and international matches ( Memento from May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ livecache.sportresult.com: France , accessed January 15, 2020
  3. ↑ Karabatic and Neagu are world handball players for the third time. In: handball-world.com , accessed on March 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ The greatest handball stars of all time. In: t-online.de. Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Philipp Albrechtsberger: Nikola Karabatic: Radiant handball world star with a dark side. In: kurier.at. January 14, 2018, accessed January 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Photos: The best handball players of all time. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  7. ^ The ten best foreign handball players in history. May 11, 2012, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Nikola Karabatic in conversation. In: faz.net
  9. ^ Slobodna Dalmacija: Svi smo navijali za našu Hrvatsku. , July 21, 2003
  10. ^ The THW Kiel on the debut of Karabatić
  11. ^ Announcement about Karabatić's election as Sportsman of the Year
  12. ↑ dpa: turning point at THW: Karabatic and Kavticnik go. In: kn-online.de , June 2, 2009
  13. ↑ Nikola Karabatic sing in Aix. In: lnh.fr , February 1, 2013, accessed February 2, 2013
  14. ↑ Barca are upgrading - Karabatic is coming. In: handball-world.com
  15. ↑ Official: Paris St. Germain confirms Karabatic as a new addition. In: handball-world.com , accessed on July 14, 2015
  16. ↑ A thrilling final in Vienna In: sportv1.orf.at , accessed on May 4, 2019.
  17. ↑ All-Star Team with German participation: Mikkel Hansen honored as MVP. In: handball-world.com , accessed on August 22, 2016
  18. ↑ Rappold, Emilio: Karabatic: "Bet, but not cheated". In: Abendblatt.de , October 1, 2012, accessed on October 2, 2012.
  19. ↑ Criminal proceedings initiated against Karabatic. In: zeit.de , October 3, 2012.
  20. ↑ Nikola Karabatic and Issam Tej are back on the team. In: handball-world.com , October 30, 2012.
  21. ^ Nikola Karabatic contract termination. ( Memento of February 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: montpellierhandball.com , February 1, 2013
  22. ↑ handball-world.com
  23. ↑ Karabatic sentenced to a fine. In: Sport1.de , July 10, 2015, accessed on July 10, 2015.
  24. ↑ Court of Appeal convicts Karabatic brothers in betting scandal. ( Memento from February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Südwest Presse , February 1, 2017, accessed on February 2, 2017.
  25. ↑ Prime Minister Carstensen awarded the Schleswig-Holstein sports badge to Karl-Friedrich Schwark and Nikola Karabatic. In: dhb.de , accessed on May 18, 2013
  26. ↑ Nikola KARABATIC. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
  27. ^ THW Kiel: Nikola Karabatic. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Not yet enough: Handball superstar Nikola Karabatic at his ninth European Championship. January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .
World handball player of the year
Women

Svetlana Dašić-Kitić  (1988) | Kim Hyun-mee  (1989) | Jasna Kolar-Merdan  (1990) | Mia Hermansson-Högdahl  (1994) | Erzsébet Kocsis  (1995) | Lim O-kyeong  (1996) | Anja Andersen  (1997) | Trine Haltvik  (1998) | Ausra Fridrikas  (1999) | Bojana Radulovics  (2000) | Cecilie Leganger  (2001) | Zhai Chao  (2002) | Bojana Radulovics  (2003) | Anita Kulcsár  (2004) | Anita Görbicz  (2005) | Nadine Krause  (2006) | Gro Hammerseng-Edin  (2007) | Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren  (2008) | Allison Pineau  (2009) | Cristina Neagu  (2010) | Heidi Løke  (2011) | Alexandra do Nascimento  (2012) | Andrea Lekić  (2013) | Eduarda Amorim  (2014) | Cristina Neagu  (2015) | Cristina Neagu  (2016) | Cristina Neagu  (2018) | Stine Bredal Oftedal  (2019)

Men

Veselin Vujović  (1988) | Kang Jae-won  (1989) | Magnus Wislander  (1990) | Talant Dujshebaev  (1994) | Jackson Richardson  (1995) | Talant Dujshebaev  (1996) | Stéphane Stoecklin  (1997) | Daniel Stephan  (1998) | Rafael Guijosa  (1999) | Dragan Škrbić  (2000) | Yoon Kyung-shin  (2001) | Bertrand Gille  (2002) | Ivano Balić  (2003) | Henning Fritz  (2004) | Arpad Šterbik  (2005) | Ivano Balić  (2006) | Nikola Karabatić  (2007) | Thierry Omeyer  (2008) | Sławomir Szmal  (2009) | Filip Jícha  (2010) | Mikkel Hansen  (2011) | Daniel Narcisse  (2012) | Domagoj Duvnjak  (2013) | Nikola Karabatić  (2014) | Mikkel Hansen  (2015) | Nikola Karabatić  (2016) | Mikkel Hansen  (2018) | Niklas Landin Jacobsen  (2019)

Best player of all time: Gheorghe Gruia (1992), Ivano Balić and Svetlana Dašić-Kitić (2010)
personal data
SURNAME Karabatić, Nikola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French handball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Niš , SR Serbia , SFR Yugoslavia