Nikola Marinovic

Nikola Marinovic

Nikola Marinovic, January 9, 2010
Player information
birthday	29th August 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	Belgrade , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Austrian
height	1.98 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	GC Amicitia Zurich
Jersey number	76
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1996-2001	RK Red Star Belgrade
2001-2002	RK Lovćen Cetinje
2002-2005	SG Handball West Vienna
2005-2009	A1 Bregenz
2009-2011	HBW Balingen-Weilstetten
2011-2013	HSG Wetzlar
2013-2015	Fresh on Göppingen
2015-2018	Cadets Schaffhausen
2018–	GC Amicitia Zurich
2018-2018	HSG Wetzlar (loan)
National team
	Games (goals)
Yugoslavia Austria	2 165 (0)
As of July 7, 2019

Nikola Marinovic (born August 29, 1976 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) is a handball goalkeeper from Yugoslavia who has also had Austrian citizenship since 2004 .

Career

Born in Belgrade, he began his active career in 1996 at RK Roter Stern Belgrade . After five years in his hometown, he moved to RK Lovćen Cetinje , where he stayed for a year. In 2002 he left Serbia and went to Austria to SG Handball West Vienna and from there after three years to the top Austrian club A1 Bregenz . In 2004 he was naturalized. In the 2006/07 season Marinovic was voted handball player of the year in Austria.

For the 2009/10 season Marinovic moved to the handball Bundesliga at HBW Balingen-Weilstetten , from there he went to HSG Wetzlar in 2011 . He has been guarding the gate of Frisch Auf Göppingen since the 2013/14 season . In summer 2015 he moved to the Swiss first division club Kadetten Schaffhausen . For the 2018/19 season he moved to GC Amicitia Zurich . In September 2018 he was loaned to the German first division club HSG Wetzlar until the end of 2018.

He is part of the Austrian national team , for which he played 163 games. In 2014 he took part in the European Championship .

Personal

His brother Luka Marinovic is also a handball player and is currently under contract with HC Bruck.

successes

• 2 × Yugoslav champions (with Red Star Belgrade)
• 1 × Yugoslav Cup winner (with Lovćen)
• 4 × Austrian champion (with A1 Bregenz)
• 1 × Austrian Cup winner (with A1 Bregenz)
• 1 × HLA "Handball Player of the Year" (2006/07)
• 2 × Swiss champions (with cadets Schaffhausen)
• 1 × Swiss Cup winner (with Kadetten Schaffhausen)
• 3 × Swiss Supercup winners (with Kadetten Schaffhausen)

Web links

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

• Nikola Marinovic in the database of the European Handball Federation
• Profile at Frisch Auf Göppingen
• Report on Marinovic's move to HBW (PDF file; 703 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ oehb.sportlive.at: Nikola Marinovic ( Memento from October 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Vorarlberg Online: Marinovic is "Handball Player of the Year" from May 31, 2007
3. ↑ handball-world.com: Freshly catches Wetzlar goalkeeper Nikola Marinovic
4. ↑ handball-world.com: Marinovic is moving to Switzerland on March 3, 2015, accessed on March 3, 2015
5. ↑ handball-world.news: "Sporty dream" - Nikola Marinovic returns to the Bundesliga on loan. In: handball-world.news , September 26, 2018. Accessed September 28, 2018.