Denis Špoljarić
Denis Špoljarić, 18 August 2009 at the Sparkassen Cup
Status: National January 30, 2014
Denis Milan Špoljarić ( born August 20, 1979 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian handball player. Its body length is 1.95 m.
Špoljarić who plays for the German club foxes Berlin and for the Croatian national team ( shirt number 18) runs is usually used on rear center of the room. He is an outright defensive specialist.
Denis Špoljarić played since his youth, for the RK Zagreb and played there his first league games. With Zagreb he won in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001, the national championship in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 the Croatian Cup. He quickly played into view foreign clubs, so it was tested together with the Cuban Julio Fis in October 2001 by the German club THW Kiel and from Winterthur Swiss scout. Finally Fis went to Kiel and Špoljarić be joined Winterthur, where he was scheduled as a replacement for the Hungary Gábor Vass. After winning the Swiss Championship, he returned in the summer of 2002 back back to Croatia. There he won the 2003, 2004, 2005 and again in 2006 league and cup until it finally in 2006 moved to the Slovenian top club RK Celje. He was scheduled as a substitute for Uroš Zorman and also won the 2007 championship, returned 've again after just one year to his financially rehabilitated Croatian original club back. In summer 2010 Špoljarić joined the German club foxes Berlin. With the foxes he reached the semi-finals of the EHF Champions League 2011/ 12, where they lost to the eventual winner THW Kiel 24:25. His contract runs until 2016.
Denis Špoljarić has been disputed 131 caps for the Croatian national team, but comes Ivano Balic after only a few bets on the playmaker position. In the 2003 World Cup in Portugal, he was world champion and World Cup in Tunisia in 2005 Vice World Champion. He also claimed at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 gold.
At the World Cup in Germany in 2007 he occupied with who had traveled as title favorite Croats but only a disappointing 5th place; at the 2008 European Championships in Norway, however, he became vice - European champion with his country. In the 2009 World Cup in his own country, he was vice-champion.