Žarko Šešum

Zarko Šešum on August 22, 2009 for the Schlecker Cup

Status: national January 2013

Zarko Šešum (Cyrillic Жарко Шешум; * 16 June 1986 in Bačka Palanka ) is a Serbian handball player. Since 2010 he plays the German first division Rhein- Neckar Löwen, with whom he won the 2013 EHF European Cup.

At the Junior European Championships in Innsbruck in August 2006 he was voted the best player of the tournament.

Career

Several Premier League teams could end 2006 to early 2007, interest in Šešum, in particular the HSV Hamburg worked intensively for the young Serbs. However, in February 2007, he signed with KC Veszprém a contract until 2011. 2008 Veszprém won Šešum with the European Cup Winners' Cup and Hungarian Championship. For the 2011 season, a change from the Rhein- Neckar Löwen was planned. Once there, Michael Müller injured early in the season 2010, the transfer was brought forward and carried out in September 2010. For the 2014/15 season he will switch to Frisch Auf Göppingen.

On February 8, 2009 Zarko Šešum was seriously injured in a stabbing in a dance hall Veszprém. Passages to the head he suffered a skull fracture. His teammate Marian Cozma died from two stab wounds to the heart and Ivan Pešić lost by a stitch a kidney. At the European Championship 2012, he was injured after the semi-final match against Croatia by a union with an object to the eye.

For the Serbian national handball team Šešum denied to January 2013 124 international matches in which he threw 301 goals. He he was in the squad for the World Cup 2011. During the Euro 2012 in their own country, he was with the Serbian national team vice European champion. In summer 2012, he participated in the Olympic Games in London. At the World Championships in 2013, he finished 10th.