Slavko Goluža
Slavko Goluža, 2010
Status: National August 1, 2007
Slavko Goluža ( born September 17, 1971 in Pješivac - Kula in Stolac / Yugoslavia) is a Croatian handball player and handball coach. His height is 1.95 m.
Goluža, who last played for the Croatian top club RK Zagreb and earlier aground for the Croatian men's national handball team, was mostly used to his playing days on the back center of the room.
Slavko Goluža was born the son of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croats near Stolac. In his youth he was discovered by top club RK Zagreb, for whom he debuted in the first Croatian league. With the Brussels residents he won the 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, the Croatian league and Croatian Cup and as the culmination of the 1992 and 1993 European Champion Clubs' Cup and 1993 European Supercup. With these recommendations, he moved in 1998 to the German Handball Bundesliga for TuS Nettelstedt - Luebbecke. In Germany, he felt, however, not well, so he returned after only one year in his home and the RK Metković Jambo joined. Although he never made it with this club to get past his old club Zagreb, but this he won the 2000 and the 2001 Croatian Cup and in 2000 the EHF Cup; 2001 drew his team once again to the final of this competition. In 2002 he took the second jump abroad, this time to Paris HB to France. After an unsuccessful year at the Brussels residents, he moved in 2003 to further Fotex Veszprém Hungary, where he won the 2004 national championship and cup. Finally, he returned to his old club RK Zagreb, where he again won the league and cup in 2005 and 2006 and left end his career.
Slavko Goluža has played over 160 matches for the Croatian men's national handball team. On his land he was at the Men's Handball World Championship for Men 2003 World Championship in Portugal in the 1995 World Championships in Iceland and in Tunisia in 2005 he won silver. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 and in Athens in 2004, he won gold. Goluža was long years captain of his team.
In 2006, he ended his career and was an assistant coach Lino Červar at the Croatian national team. Since July 2010 he is the successor Lino Červar, as national coach of the Croatian national team. In April 2012, he was also interim coach of RK Zagreb. After the end of the season 2012/13 he from as coach of Zagreb. Croatia was won under his leadership the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
- National handball team (Croatia )
- Handball coach (Croatia )
- Olympic champion ( handball)
- World Champion ( handball)
- Olympian (Croatia )
- Back player
- Croatian champion ( handball)
- Hungarian Champion ( handball)
- Croatian
- Born in 1971
- Man