Denis Špoljarić

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Denis Špoljarić
Denis Špoljarić in August 2013

Denis Špoljarić, on August 18, 2009 at the Sparkassen-Cup

Player information
Full name Denis Milan Špoljarić
birthday 20th August 1979
place of birth Zagreb , SFR Yugoslavia
citizenship CroatiaCroatia Croatian
height 1.95 m
Playing position Back center
  Back left
Throwing hand right
Club information
society End of career
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-10/2001 CroatiaCroatia RK Zagreb
10 / 2001-2002 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pathfinder Winterthur
2002-2006 CroatiaCroatia RK Zagreb
2006-2007 SloveniaSlovenia RK Celje
2007-2010 CroatiaCroatia RK Zagreb
2010-2016 GermanyGermany Foxes Berlin
National team
  Games (goals)
CroatiaCroatia Croatia 131 (58)

Status: end of career

Denis Milan Špoljarić (born August 20, 1979 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian handball player . His body length is 1.95 m.

Špoljarić, who u. a. played for the German club Füchse Berlin and called for the Croatian national team (shirt number 18), was considered a defensive specialist. In the attack, the right-hander was rarely used, but then on the back center .

Career

Denis Špoljarić throwing a goal

Denis Špoljarić played for RK Zagreb since his youth and played his first league games there. With Zagreb he won the national championship in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 and the Croatian Cup in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000. He quickly played his way into the field of vision of foreign clubs, so that he was tested together with Cuban Julio Fis in October 2001 by the German club THW Kiel and the Swiss Pfadi Winterthur . Eventually Fis went to Kiel and Špoljarić joined Winterthur, where he was scheduled to replace the Hungarian Gábor Vass. After winning the Swiss championship, he returned to Croatia in the summer of 2002. There he won the championship and cup again in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, until he finally moved to the top Slovenian club RK Celje in 2006 . There he was planned as a replacement for Uroš Zorman and also won the championship in 2007, but returned after only one year to his financially rehabilitated Croatian parent club. In the summer of 2010, Špoljarić joined the German association Füchse Berlin. With the Foxes he reached the semifinals of the EHF Champions League 2011/12 , where they lost to the eventual winner THW Kiel with 24:25. In 2014 he won the DHB Cup with the Foxes . Špoljarić ended his career in 2016 with an expiring contract due to injury.

Denis Špoljarić made 131 international appearances for the Croatian national team , but only made a few appearances in the playmaker position behind Ivano Balić . In the 2003 World Cup in Portugal , he was world champion and the 2005 World Championship in Tunisia Vice World Champion. He also won gold at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .

At the 2007 World Cup in Germany , however, he finished only a disappointing 5th place with the Croatians who came as the favorite for the title; at the 2008 European Championships in Norway, however, he was runner-up with his country. At the 2009 World Cup in his own country, he was runner-up.

successes

in the club
  • Croatian champion 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Croatian cup winner 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Swiss champion 2002
  • Slovenian champion 2007
  • DHB Cup winner 2014
  • EHF Europe Cup Winner 2015
with the Croatian national team
  • World Champion 2003
  • Vice World Champion 2005 and 2009
  • Olympic champion 2004
  • Vice European Champion 2008

Bundesliga record

season society Division Games Gates 7 meters Field gates
2010/11 Foxes Berlin Bundesliga 32 5 0 5
2011/12 Foxes Berlin Bundesliga 21st 3 0 3
2012/13 Foxes Berlin Bundesliga 20th 2 0 2
2013/14 Foxes Berlin Bundesliga 33 4th 0 4th
2010-2014 total Bundesliga 106 14th 0 14th

Web links

Commons : Denis Špoljarić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ morgenpost.de: Denis Spoljaric tops all expectations , accessed on April 6, 2018
  2. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: THW tests Kubaner ... , accessed on September 2, 2019
  3. ↑ Špoljarić igrao za Zagreb, a nije slobodan igrač ( Memento from May 28, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin-sport/fuechse-berlin/ueberraschung-fuechse-trio-beendet-endgueltig-seine-karriere
personal data
SURNAME Špoljarić, Denis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Špoljarić, Denis Milan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian handball player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Yugoslavia