Venio Losert
Venio Losert October 12, 2008
Status: National January 27, 2014
Venio Losert ( born July 25, 1976 in Zavidovići, Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian handball player. He is 1.91 m tall and weighs 94 pounds.
Losert, who plays for the Polish club KS Kielce and for the Croatian men's handball team ( Rückennr. 1) runs, plays as a goalkeeper.
Venio Losert came early in the youth academy of Badel Zagreb, where he made his debut in the first Croatian league. With Zagreb 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 Croatian champion and cup winner as well as the high point in 1992 and 1993 winner of the EHF Champions League. In 1999, he sought a new challenge and moved to Garbel Zaragoza in the Spanish league ASOBAL to draw just about a year later to Teka Cantabria. But even there he was not happy and went - again after only one year - to BM Granollers. Here he remained three whole years until he moved to Portland San Antonio in 2004. While here he won the Spanish league title in 2005, but was hired in 2006 Frigorificos del Morrazo Cangas, rather he landed in 2006 at the top club FC Barcelona. There he won the 2006 /07 Spanish Super Cup and the Copa del Rey de Balonmano. In the summer of 2009, his contract with FC Barcelona was not renewed. In December 2009, the French first division side U.S. Créteil him HB took them under contract. From 2010 he played for Ademar Leon. After two years in León Losert signed a contract with the Danish first division club KIF Kolding. In November 2012, he joined the Polish club KS Kielce. With Kielce in 2013, he won the Polish Championship.
Losert with currently 211 international matches for the Croatian men's national handball team record player before Igor Vori with 209 at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 and in Athens in 2004 he won with his team the gold medal in the World Handball Championships in 1995, 2005 and 2009, silver and at the 2003 World Championships gold medal. At the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics Losert was the Croatian flag carrier. In these games, he won the bronze medal.