Jure Natek

Jure Natek at the 2008 European Championships in Stavanger

Status: National May 10, 2013

Jure Natek ( born March 30, 1982 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian handball player. He is 1.94 m tall.

Natek who plays for the German Bundesliga club SC Magdeburg and for the Slovenian national team ( number 9 ) runs is mostly used in the right back, but he can also run up against right wing.

In his youth Jure Natek still played at RD Slovan and RK Termo Loka before leaving for Prule 67 Ljuljana debuted in the first Slovenian League in 1999. After two runner-up in 2000 and 2001, where he Prule 2002, the Slovenian league and cup double. As the capital club, however, was forced to declare bankruptcy in 2003, Natek moved together with his friend Matjaž Brumen on to the serial champions RK Celje. There he won the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the Slovenian championship, 2004, 2006 and 2007 the Slovenian Cup and 2004 as the culmination of the EHF Champions League. After these successes Natek looking for a new challenge and joined in 2007 the French top club Chambery Savoie HB on. After two years in France, he returned to his home, and played at RK Velenje. For the 2010/11 season changed Jure Natek to SC Magdeburg.

Jure Natek has denied the 130 caps for the Slovenian national team. In the European Handball Championship in 2004 in his own country he became vice European champion. With Slovenia, he participated in the 2007 World Cup in Germany, but finished only 10th place; at the European Championship 2008 in Norway, he retired with his country after the Main Round.