Domagoj Duvnjak

Domagoj Duvnjak

Domagoj Duvnjak (2009)
Player information
Nickname	"Dule"
birthday	1st June 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Đakovo , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Croatian
height	1.98 m
Playing position	Back center
	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	THW Kiel
Jersey number	4th
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2006	RK Đakovo
2006-2009	RK Zagreb
2009-2014	HSV Hamburg
2014–	THW Kiel
National team
	Games (goals)
Croatia	202 (658)
As of December 26, 2018

Domagoj Duvnjak (born June 1, 1988 in Đakovo , SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian handball player who is usually used as a backcourt player in the middle position. His body length is 1.98 m, his body weight is 100 kilograms. He was elected world handball player in 2013.

Career

society

Domagoj Duvnjak in a Bundesliga game

Duvnjak began playing handball in his place of birth at RK Đakovo , where he was used for the first time in the highest Croatian league at the age of 16. From the 2006/07 season he played for the Croatian club RK Zagreb . In his first season Domagoj Duvnjak won the championship and cup. This was also followed by games in the 2007/08 EHF Champions League season. From the 2009/10 season he played for the Bundesliga club HSV Hamburg . Originally, Duvnjak should not move to Hamburg until the 2011/12 season. But HSV Hamburg paid a transfer fee to release the playmaker from his contract in Zagreb early. This transaction made him the most expensive handball player in the world up until then.

With HSV Hamburg he won shortly after joining the DHB Supercup , at the end of his first season the DHB Cup and 2011, the German Cup and in 2013 the EHF Champions League . For the 2014/15 season he switched to THW Kiel , with whom he won the championship in 2015 and 2020, the DHB Cup in 2017 and 2019 and the EHF Cup in 2019 . In 2020 he was elected MVP of the German Bundesliga for the second time since 2013.

National team

At the European Championships in 2008 Domagoj Duvnjak was runner-up with the Croatian national team . He and his team also took second place at the 2009 World Cup and the 2010 European Championship .

At the European Championships in 2012 he was able to receive the bronze medal, as well as at the Olympic Games in London in 2012 . At the 2013 World Cup , he again reached third place with Croatia and was appointed to the Allstar team. He also took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . At the European Championship 2020 he won the silver medal with his team and was named the most valuable player (MVP) of the tournament.

successes

• Champions League winner 2013
• German champion 2011 , 2015 and 2020
• DHB Cup winners 2010 , 2017 and 2019
• DHB Supercup winner 2009, 2010 and 2014
• EHF Cup Winner 2019
• Croatian champion 2007-2009
• Croatian cup winner 2007–2009
• Bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics
• Vice World Champion 2009
• Vice European Champion 2008, 2010 and 2020
• European Youth Champion 2006
• Croatia's handball player of the year 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• Allstar Team World Championship 2013 and European Championship 2014
• MVP of the European Championship 2020
• Best player of the HBL season 2012/13
• Best player of the HBL season 2019/20
• World handball player 2013

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2009/10	HSV Hamburg	Bundesliga	34	110	1	109
2010/11	HSV Hamburg	Bundesliga	33	089	0	089
2011/12	HSV Hamburg	Bundesliga	34	112	0	112
2012/13	HSV Hamburg	Bundesliga	33	155	0	155
2013/14	HSV Hamburg	Bundesliga	33	166	0	166
2014/15	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	35	134	0	134
2015/16	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	30th	149	0	149
2016/17	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	23	95	0	95
2017/18	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	17th	28	0	28
2009-2018	total	Bundesliga	272	1038	1	1037

Source: player profile in the handball Bundesliga

Web links

Commons : Domagoj Duvnjak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Domagoj Duvnjak on the THW Kiel website
• Domagoj Duvnjak in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Domagoj Duvnjak in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ livecache.sportresult.com: Croatia , accessed on January 14, 2020
2. ↑ www.abendblatt.de: Domagoj Duvnjak on "the most beautiful week of my life" , accessed on May 29, 2014
3. ↑ handball-world.com: Domagoj Duvnjak switched to HSV Handball in 2011 , accessed on May 1, 2017
4. ↑ Handball player Domagoj Duvnjak to transfer to HSV ( Memento from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ handball-world.news: Hamburg has to rebuild in the future: Duvnjak goes, Canellas comes from June 17, 2013, accessed on June 17, 2013
6. ↑ www.london2012.com: Croatia - Team Rosters , accessed on August 4, 2012
7. ↑ sport.hrt.hr: Penezić i Duvnjak najbolji u 2014. , accessed on December 27, 2015
8. ↑ sport.hrt.hr: Marta Žderić i Domagoj Duvnjak najbolji u 2015. , accessed on December 27, 2015
9. ↑ Handball: Domagoj Duvnjak voted Player of the Season - sportal.de . Retrieved June 5, 2013.
10. ↑ Domagoj Duvnjak most valuable player in the handball Bundesliga season 2019/20 - handball-world.news . Retrieved May 27, 2020.
11. ↑ https://www.dkb-handball-bundesliga.de/de/import/ Spieler / domagoj- duvnjak / #s1434504-1= 5c38b15f under "Statistics" and "Historically", accessed on January 14, 2019.