Valner Franković

Valner Franković

Player information
birthday	July 9, 1968
place of birth	Raša , SFR Yugoslavia
citizenship	Croatian
Playing position	Left winger
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1987	RK Rudar Labin
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1987-1991	RK Zamet Rijeka
1991-1 / 1992	VfL Günzburg
1 / 1992-1992	RK Rudar Labin
1992-1993	RK Zamet Rijeka
1993-1995	Badel 1862 Zagreb
1995-1998	Karlovacka Banka
1998-2000	Pallamano Modena
2000-2001	RK Rudar Labin
National team
	Games (goals)
Croatia
As of June 20, 2014

Valner Franković (born July 9, 1968 in Raša ) is a former Croatian handball player .

Career

Valner Franković began playing handball in fourth grade. At first he was a handball goalkeeper , at the age of 14 he moved to the left wing . In 1987, the first division club RK Zamet Rijeka noticed him and signed him. After four years in Rijeka , he went to the German second division club VfL Günzburg in 1991 . After half a year he returned to Croatia, where he played again for the second division team Rudar and Rijeka. When Rudar rose to the Premijer Liga in 1993 (without him) , he signed with the top club Badel 1862 Zagreb , with whom he won the championship and cup in 1994 and 1995 and reached the final in the EHF Champions League in 1994/95, in which he won the Spanish Bidasoa Irun was defeated. The next three seasons he ran for Karlovacka Banka . After two years in Italy, he let his career end with his home club.

With the Croatian national team , Valner Franković won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games and the 1997 Mediterranean Games.

Others

After the end of his career, Franković returned to Labin , where he and his wife run a coffee bar and holiday apartments.

Web links

• Biography on his bar's website
• Valner Franković in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Valner Franković in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence