Hrvoje Horvat
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Full name | Hrvoje Horvat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Bjelovar, FPR Yugoslavia | 22 May 1946||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Croatian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Centre back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1959–1962 | RK Partizan Bjelovar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1962–1979 | Partizan Bjelovar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1979–1980 | Milbertshofen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1980–1983 | MTSV Schwabing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1966–1976 |
![]() | 231 | (621) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1991–1994 | VfL Gummersbach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994–1997 | TV Eitra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997–1999 | TV 08 Willstätt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1999–2003 | MT Melsungen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2009 | HSC 2000 Coburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009–2011 | RK Dubrava | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2013 | HSC 2000 Coburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hrvoje Horvat (born 22 May 1946) is a Croatian handball coach and player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics for SFR Yugoslavia.
International career
[edit]He was part of the Yugoslav team which won the gold medal at the Munich Games. He played all six matches and scored fifteen goals. Four years later he was a member of the Yugoslav team which finished fifth. He played all six matches and scored fifteen goals again.
Managerial career
[edit]In 2005 he became coach of German team HSC 2000 Coburg and has led them up into the second league.
Personal life
[edit]His nickname is Cveba, which is the Croatian word for raisin. Horvat has a son Hrvoje, who is also a handball coach, and daughters Jasenka, who was married to the late Iztok Puc, one of the best players in handball history, and Vanja, who was married to former footballer and now a manager Zoran Mamić.[1]
Honours
[edit]- Player
- Partizan Bjelovar
- Yugoslav First League (7): 1966–67, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1976–77, 1978–79
- European Cup
- Coach
- HSC 2000 Coburg
- Regionaliga Süd (1): 2006–07
References
[edit]- ^ Marjan Beloševič (27 October 2011). ""Moj oče je bil najboljši oče na svetu," je dejal Borut Puc!" ["My father was the best father in the world", said Borut Puc!]. tenisportal.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 20 November 2011.
External links
[edit]- Hrvoje Horvat at databaseOlympics.com
- profile and picture on HSC 2000 Coburg website[permanent dead link]
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Croatian male handball players
- Sportspeople from Bjelovar
- Olympic handball players for Yugoslavia
- Yugoslav male handball players
- Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Yugoslavia
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
- Competitors at the 1967 Mediterranean Games
- Croatian handball coaches
- Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
- Croatian expatriate handball players in Germany
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in West Germany
- Expatriate handball coaches
- Croatian handball biography stubs
- Yugoslav Olympic medalist stubs
- Yugoslav handball biography stubs