Hrvoje Horvat (handball player, 1977)

Hrvoje Horvat

Player information
birthday	December 16, 1977
place of birth	Bjelovar , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Croatian
height	1.91 m
Playing position	Back left
	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	RK NEXE Našice
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-0000	RK Partizan Bjelovar
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	RK Badel 1862 Zagreb
0000-0000	RK Medveščak Zagreb
0000-0000	Initia HC Hasselt
0000-2003	RK Zagreb
2003–1 / 2004	DHK Flensborg
1 / 2004-2004	SG Kronau / Östringen
2004–0000	SG Stans-Zentralschweiz
0000-0000	RK Dubrava
National team
	Games (goals)
Croatia	≥16 (?)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2008–11 / 2016	RK Dubrava
2012–0000	Croatia (Juniors)
4/2017–3/2018	Croatia (assistant coach)
11 / 2016–	RK NEXE Našice
Medal table
Beach handball world championship 1 × 0 × 0 × Beach handball championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
As of December 28, 2018

Hrvoje Horvat (born December 16, 1977 in Bjelovar , Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian handball player and today's coach and beach handball player . In his active career he was mainly used on the left backcourt position. With the Croatian national beach handball team, he became world and European champion.

Career

Horvat started playing handball at RK Partizan Bjelovar before moving to RK Badel in 1862 Zagreb , where he was twice Croatian champion. Further stations were initially RK Medveščak Zagreb , the Belgian club Initia HC Hasselt , again RK Zagreb and the German regional league team DHK Flensborg . After scoring 107 goals in 13 games, he moved to the Bundesliga for SG Kronau / Östringen after half a year . After the end of the season he joined the Swiss club SG Stans-Zentralschweiz and ended his career in Croatia with RK Dubrava .

Horvat started his coaching career in Dubrava in 2008. He remained the club's coach for over eight years and also became the national coach of the Croatian junior national team in 2012. In November 2016 he moved to RK NEXE Našice , which he still trains today. From April 2017 to March 2018 he was assistant coach of the senior national team under Lino Červar and took part with her in the 2018 European Championship in his own country.

As an active player, Horvat played 68 international matches for the junior national team and at least 16 for the senior national team of Croatia. He was also a national beach handball player and became world champion in Cádiz in 2008 and European champion in Larvik in 2009 .

Personal

Horvat is married and has a daughter and a son. His father, who is also called Hrvoje , became Olympic champion with Yugoslavia in 1972.

successes

• 2 × Croatian champion
• 1 × beach handball world champion
• 1 × beach handball European champion

Web links

• Hrvoje Horvat in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Hrvoje Horvat on the website of SG Kronau / Östringen (2003/04 season)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rhein-neckar-loewen.de: Hrvoje Horvat on the website of SG Kronau / Östringen (2003/04 season) accessed on December 28, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} seha-liga.com: 7m - Horvat: "Every match is a chance to learn something" (English) from March 6, 2018, accessed on December 28, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c} fl-arena.de: Once DHK, today international stage on January 27, 2018, accessed on December 28, 2018
4. ↑ ^{a b} nzz.ch: HANDBALL: Stans / Zentralschweiz with Horvat from August 14, 2004, accessed on December 28, 2018
5. ↑ ^{a b} ihf.info: Algeria 2017: Profile - Croatia (English) from June 23, 2017, accessed on December 28, 2018
6. ↑ scena.hr: Lino Červar: Hrvoje Horvat i Zlatko Saračević u stručnom stožeru. Izbornik Lino Červar predstavio stručni stožer i najavio pripreme u Poreču (Croatian) from April 29, 2017, accessed on December 28, 2018
7. ↑ fl-arena.de: Croatian Association dismisses Horvat on March 8, 2018, accessed on December 28, 2018
8. ↑ bhc-zagreb.com: Croatian men are european beach champions, women 3rd (English) from June 28, 2009, accessed on December 28, 2018