Slavko Goluža

Slavko Goluža

Slavko Goluža, 2010
Player information
birthday	17th September 1971
place of birth	Pješivac-Kula, Yugoslavia
citizenship	Croatian
height	1.95 m
Playing position	Back center
	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1989-1998	RK Zagreb
1998-1999	TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke
1999-2002	RK Metković Jambo
2002-2003	Paris HB
2003-2004	Fotex Veszprém
2004-2006	RK Zagreb
National team
	Games (goals)
Croatia	204 (545)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2006-2010	Croatia (assistant coach)
2010-2015	Croatia
2012-2013	RK Zagreb
2017-2017	RK Zagreb
2017–	HT Tatran Prešov
As of January 16, 2020

Slavko Goluža (born September 17, 1971 in Pješivac-Kula near Stolac / Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian handball player and handball trainer . His height is 1.95 m.

Goluža, who last played for the Croatian top club RK Zagreb and previously played for the Croatian men's national handball team, was mostly used in the center of the back during his playing days .

Slavko Goluža was born to Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croats near Stolac. In his youth he was discovered by the top club RK Zagreb, for which he also made his debut in the Croatian first division. The Brussels residents, he won the Croatian championship and Croatian Cup in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 as well as the high point in 1992 and 1993 the European Champions Cup and the 1993 European Super Cup . With these recommendations, he moved to the German handball league for TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke in 1998 . In Germany, however, he did not feel comfortable, so that he returned to his homeland after only one year and joined the RK Metković Jambo . Although he never managed to get past his old club Zagreb with this club, he won the Croatian Cup in 2000 and 2001 and the EHF Cup in 2000 ; In 2001 his team made it to the final of this competition again. In 2002 he dared the second jump abroad, this time to Paris HB in France. After an unsuccessful year with the capital city, he moved to Fotex Veszprém in Hungary in 2003 , where he won the national championship and cup in 2004. Finally he returned to his old club RK Zagreb, where he won the championship and cup again in 2005 and 2006 and let his career end.

Slavko Goluža played 204 international matches for the Croatian men's national handball team . With his country, he was at the 2003 World Men's Handball Championship in Portugal champion , at the World Championships in 1995 in Iceland and in 2005 in Tunisia he won silver . He won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and 2004 in Athens . Goluža was the captain of his team for many years.

In 2006 he ended his career and became Lino Červar's assistant coach for the Croatian national team. In July 2010 he took over the position of Lino Červars, as national coach of the Croatian national team. In April 2012 he also became interim trainer for RK Zagreb . After the end of the 2012/13 season, he gave up the coaching position in Zagreb. Under his leadership, Croatia won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . In February 2015 he gave up the coaching position of the Croatian national team. In April 2017, Goluža took over the coaching position from RK Zagreb before he took over the Slovak first division club HT Tatran Prešov for the 2017/18 season . Under his leadership, Prešov won the Slovak Championship in 2018 and 2019 and the Slovak Cup in 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ prvahnl.hr: Slavko Goluža - dvostruki olimpijski pobjednik , accessed on January 16, 2020
2. ↑ handball-world.com: Croatia's national coach with immediate resignation , accessed on February 6, 2015
3. ↑ eurohandball.com: Goluža takes over Zagreb before heading to Tatran Prešov , accessed on January 16, 2020