Luka Žvižej

Luka Žvižej in the jersey of FC Barcelona

Status: National March 3, 2014

Luka Žvižej ( born December 9, 1980 in Celje, Yugoslavia ) is a Slovenian handball player. He is 1.87 m tall.

Žvižej that for the Slovenian club RK Celje ( shirt number 77) and plays for the Slovenian national team ( shirt number 20) runs, is usually used on the left wing.

Luka Žvižej began in his hometown with the handball game. For the local first division club RK Celje, he debuted in the first Slovenian League and won the 1999 league and cup double. After he was on loan for the 1999/2000 season to the league rivals RK Trimo Trebnje, he won the men from the Slovenian Styria also still in 2001 the double and 2003 the championship. 2003 Žvižej was obliged by CB Cantabria Santander from the Spanish League ASOBAL, where he remained but one year only; In 2004 he moved on to the great FC Barcelona. With the Catalans, he won the 2005 EHF Champions League and the Spanish Cup in 2006. In the same year Žvižej was screened at FC Barcelona and returned to his former club from Santander. Sporty he dismounted with the Cantabriern; However, by the relegation BM Altea his club could remain in the Spanish top flight. Nevertheless Žvižej signed in 2007 a ​​contract with the former Hungarian champion SC Szeged. In the summer of 2010 he returned to RK Celje. There he won 2012, 2013 and 2014, the Slovenian Cup.

Luka Žvižej has been contested 186 matches for the Slovenian national team. In the 2004 European Championship on home soil he became vice European champion. In the same year he took part in the Olympic Games in Athens, finishing in 11th place. With Slovenia, he participated in the 2007 World Cup in Germany, but finished only 10th place; at the 2008 European Championships in Norway, he retired with his country after the Main Round. In 2010 he reached the 11th place in 2012 to 6th place at the European Championship. At the World Championships in 2013 he finished fourth.

His brother Miha Žvižej (* 1987) also plays handball.