Zlatan Saračević (handball player)

Zlatan Saračević

Saračević as commentator (left)
Player information
Nickname	"Zlatko"
birthday	5th July 1961
place of birth	Banja Luka , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Croatian
height	1.87 m
Playing position	Back right
	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1979-1987	RK Borac Banja Luka
1987-1990	RK Agram Medvešćak Zagreb
1990-1993	USAM Nîmes
1993-1994	Girondins de Bordeaux HBC
1994-1995	US Créteil HB
1995-1997	Istres OPH
1997-2000	Badel 1862 Zagreb
2000-2002	Fotex Veszprém
2002-2002	→ al-Sadd Sport Club (loan)
2002-2003	Zamet Crotek Rijeka
National team
Debut on	November 1982
against	United States
	Games (goals)
Yugoslavia (1981–1991) Croatia (1992–2000)	? (?) 81+ (244+)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2003-2004	Zamet Crotek Rijeka
2004–2/2005	Nyíregyházi KSE
2009-2010	RK Čelik Zenica
2010– 000?	RK Zagreb (youth coach)
2013– 000?	RK Zagreb (assistant coach)
2017-2018	RK Zagreb (trainer)
2018–	ŽRK Podravka Koprivnica
As of January 8, 2014

Zlatan "Zlatko" Saračević ( Cyrillic Златан Сарачевић; born July 5, 1961 in Banja Luka , Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian handball player .

society

The 1.87 m tall half right back player began playing handball in his Bosnian birthplace at the multi-confessional top club of the 1970s RK Borac Banja Luka . Due to the dominance of Metaloplastika Šabac , he did not win the title in this phase.
In the late 1980s, nationalist currents reappeared in Yugoslavia. After nationalist Serbs burned down 16 mosques and one of the two Catholic churches in town, Saračević and his family had "only a few hours to flee the city, otherwise the Serbs would have cut off their heads." Then the son of a Muslim took and a Croatian mother acquired Croatian citizenship and went to RK Agram Medvešćak Zagreb in 1987 , with whom he won the cup in 1989 and 1990.
He then moved to the French league for USAM Nîmes and celebrated the championship there in 1991 and 1993. After stints at Girondins de Bordeaux HB , US Créteil HB and the newcomer from 1995 Istres OHP , he signed with the Croatian series champion Badel 1862 Zagreb in 1997 after the relegation of Istres , with whom he lost three times in a row to FC Barcelona in the final of the EHF Champions League . The strong backcourt player was twice top scorer. With the Hungarian top club Fotex Veszprém he reached his fourth final in 2002, but this time was defeated by SC Magdeburg . In June 2002 he was loaned to the al-Sadd Sport Club from Qatar for the IHF Super Globe and won it alongside other old stars. He ended his career in 2003 as a player-coach at RK Zamet Crotek Rijeka .

After brief engagements as a trainer in Croatia, Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Saračević then worked at RK Zagreb as an assistant and youth trainer. From November 2017 until the end of the 2017/18 season, he trained RK Zagreb, which won the Croatian championship under his leadership. He then took over the Croatian women's first division club ŽRK Podravka Koprivnica .

National team

Saračević was world champion in 1981 with the Yugoslav national junior team. In 1986 , he repeated this triumph with the men's national team . He won silver at the 1988 Olympic Games . With the Croatian national team he won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games , silver at the 1995 World Cup and bronze at the 1994 European Championship . After the European Championship in 2000 , he ended his national team career.

successes

With RK Agram Medvešćak Zagreb:

• Yugoslav Cup Winner 1989, 1990

With USAM Nîmes:

• French champion 1991, 1993

With Badel 1862 Zagreb:

• Croatian champion 1998, 1999, 2000
• Croatian Cup Winner 1998, 1999, 2000
• Champions League finalist 1998, 1999
• Champions League top scorer in 1999, 2000

With Fotex Veszprém:

• Hungarian champion 2001, 2002
• Hungarian cup winner 2002
• Champions League finalist in 2002

For the Olympic victory in 1996 he was awarded the Franjo Bučar State Prize for Sport ( Croatian Državna nagrada za šport "Franjo Bučar").

Web links

• Zlatan Saračević in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Zlatan Saračević in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Saračević, Zlatko (Croatian)
2. ↑ Selestat: USAM Nîmes Handball (French)
3. ↑ SC Selestat: L'ultra violet No28 from May 1994 (PDF; 1.3 MB) (French)
4. ↑ SC Selestat: L'ultra violet No46 from June 1995 (PDF; 1.3 MB) (French)
5. ↑ Selestat: Istres Ouest Provence Handball (French)
6. ↑ origo.hu: Saracevic mégsem vonul vissza of September 17, 2002 (Hungarian)
7. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Opponents Badel Zagreb 99/00 , accessed on May 26, 2019
8. ↑ Euro98: Croatian squad
9. ↑ Zlatko Saračević novi trener ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
10. ↑ indexkelet.hu: Hajnali hívás után világossá vált: Saracevic a nyíregyházi kézisek új edzője of July 16, 2004 (Hungarian)
11. ↑ origo.hu: Saracevic távozik a nyíregyházi kézicsapattól of February 1, 2005 (Hungarian)
12. ↑ rkcelikzenica.com: Zlatan Saračević novi trener (Bosnian)
13. ↑ sportsport.ba: Saračević napušta Čelik? from January 4, 2010 (Bosnian)
14. ↑ hrsport.net: Rukometni turnir Maksimir Pastela 2012 (Croatian) /
15. ↑ RK Zagreb: Stručni Stožer ( Memento from 1 November 2013 Internet Archive )
16. ↑ Liberation.fr: Banja Luka, l'ancien club phare de la Yougoslavie of January 24, 2000 (French)
17. ↑ rk-zagreb.hr: Omladinski pogon - rasadnik budućih zvijezda ( Memento from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Croatian)
18. ↑ www.handball-world.news Renewed coaching change at RK Zagreb on June 24, 2018, accessed on June 24, 2018
19. ↑ Hrvatska enciklopedija: Zlatko Saračević ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Croatian)
20. ↑ rkmetalurg.mk: Who won the Golden Adidas Ball in 20 seasons of Champions League
21. ↑ COC Monograph: The Croatian Olympic Family, p. 104 (English)