Zlatko Portner

Zlatko Portner ( born January 16, 1962 in Ruma ) is a manager and former Yugoslav handball player. He came mainly as a back player used. He was famous for his good vision, his technical class and its excellent throw.

The club players Portner

Zlatko Portner began his career in the men's field in 1980 when Serbian Erstligaclub RK Crvenka. After two years he moved to the distinguished top club Metaloplastika Sabac, who then won the league title for the first time. Thus Portner played equal in the European Champions Cup. This he should do with its changing clubs over the next eleven years in a row. With Sabac he reached the semi-finals in the same competition. A year later, the blow came first in the seven-meter throw of the final against Dukla Prague. 1985 and 1986, then handed it to win the European Cup. Portner was also six times champion and Cup winner three times with Sabac.

In 1989, Portner for FC Barcelona. With the Catalan club he celebrated three league titles and a Cup victory. In 1991 he again won the European Champions Cup. He was putting together with Veselin Vujović, the first handball players to have managed with two different clubs.

In 1992, Portner in the French league for the master HB Venissieux. Then two years later he moved to Switzerland; only to BSV Bern and then to the TV Zofingen. After a second stint at the BSV Bern, he left his career at unterklassigen BSC Grosshöchstetten finish.

The national team Portner

Zlatko Portner has already made early attention. At the 1983 World Junior Championships, he was voted the best player of the tournament. For the 1984 Olympics, he was still not yet considered. His tournament debut for Yugoslavia, he was at the World Cup 1986., Where he won as a second playmaker behind Caslav Grubić equal to the gold medal. At the Olympic Summer Games in Seoul in 1988 Portner was then the number one at his position and one of the best players of his team. The reward was the bronze medal. 1990 was a member of the World Cup team of his country.

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