Hrvoje Horvat (handball player, 1946)

Hrvoje Horvat

Player information
Nickname	"Cveba"
birthday	May 22, 1946
place of birth	Bjelovar , SFR Yugoslavia
citizenship	Croatian German
height	1.90 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1959-1965	ORK Partizan Bjelovar
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1965-1979	ORK Partizan Bjelovar
1979-1980	TSV Milbertshofen
1980-1983	MTSV Schwabing
National team
	Games (goals)
Yugoslavia	231 (621)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1991-11 / 1992	VfL Gummersbach
11 / 1992–0000	TV Eitra
1 / 1997-10 / 1999	TV 08 Willstätt
2000-2004	MSG Melsungen / Böddiger
2005–2 / 2009	HSC 2000 Coburg
2011-2013	HSC 2000 Coburg
As of September 11, 2019

Hrvoje Horvat ( Cyrillic  Хрвоје Хорват ; born May 22, 1946 in Bjelovar , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian-German handball trainer and former handball player who was mainly used in the center back area.

Horvat began playing handball at the age of 13 at ORK Partizan Bjelovar , where he also spent most of his career and won several championship titles. In 1972 the playmaker won the European Champion Clubs' Cup . In the 1975/1976 season he scored 12.2 goals per game. In 1979 he moved to TSV Milbertshofen in the handball Bundesliga , where he ended his playing career in 1983 after three years at MTSV Schwabing .

With the Yugoslav national team , the 231-time record Yugoslav national player won the gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , and in 1976 in Montreal he was fifth. At the world championships in 1970 and 1974 he won bronze.

As a handball coach, he looked after several German clubs from the regional league to the Bundesliga. He led the TV Eitra and TV 08 Willstätt in the 1st Bundesliga and HSC 2000 Coburg in the 2nd Bundesliga.

He has been a German citizen since 2007.

Hrvoje Horvat is married to Dunja and has two daughters and a son, who is also called Hrvoje and was a handball player and now works as a coach. He is the father-in-law of the Slovenian-Croatian handball player Iztok Puc, who died in 2011, and the grandfather of the tennis player Borut Puc .

successes

With ORK Partizan Bjelovar:

• Yugoslav champion 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1979
• Yugoslav Cup Winner 1968, 1976
• European Champion Clubs' Cup 1972

With the Yugoslav national team:

• Olympic champion 1976
• Bronze at the 1970 and 1974 World Cups

Web links

• Hrvoje Horvat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Hrvoje Horvat in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Biography (Croatian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ np-coburg.de: Horvat farewell with great emotions , accessed on April 15, 2018
2. ↑ Obsolete on the right
3. ↑ Willstätt opponents squad  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Willstätt is our home in Germany
5. ↑ hna.de: Heart is attached to MT and Coburg. Before the Melsunger Bundesliga game in Franconia, a look at Hrvoje Horvat - he coached both clubs on April 14, 2017, accessed on September 11, 2019
6. ↑ Cveba Horvat will probably be HSC trainer again
7. ↑ ^{a b} handball-world.news: "The truck was already ordered": The new, old trainer at HSC Coburg was actually gone on May 14, 2011, accessed on December 27, 2018
8. ↑ fl-arena.de: Once DHK, today international stage on January 27, 2018, accessed on December 27, 2018
9. ↑ balkans.aljazeera.net: Bezgranična privrženost Hrvoja Horvata bolesnoj supruzi. Proslavljeni rukometaš i osvajač zlatne olimpijske medalje brine o supruzi oboljeloj od Alzheimerove bolesti. (Croatian) January 7, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018