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Jurica Lakić

Jurica Lakić
Personal information
Born (1953-05-11) 11 May 1953 (age 63)
Karlovac, SFR Yugoslavia
Died 28 May 1982(1982-05-28) (aged 29) Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Club information
Number 11
Youth clubs
1967-1968 RK Dubovac
Senior clubs
1968-1970
1970-1976
1976-1981

RK Kvarner
RK Zamet
National team
1972
1972-1973
Flag of the Socialist Republic of Croatia.svgSR Croatia
 Yugoslavia

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Title
1976-1982 Referee
Teams managed
1975
1980-1981
RK Kvarner
RK Zamet

Jurica Lakić (May 11, 1963 - September 9, 1982) is a former Croatian handball player.

Jurica Lakić was born on May 11 1982. He started playing handball in .

He started his senior career in RK Dubovac at the age of 15. In 1970 Lakić moved to RK Kvarner in Rijeka on the call of head coach Vlado Stenzel and played in the golden generation of Kvarner in the Yugoslav First League. In 1972 Lakić played for the national team of SR Croatia and a year later he made 5 appearances for Yugoslavia. Lakić was a key player in RK Kvarner all throughout his six year stay. In 1975 after the departure of Ivan Munitić he coached the team for a couple of months.

In 1976 after Lakić was denied bigger pay from RK Kvarner he left the club and moved to city rivals RK Partizan Zamet. He helped the side rise from the third league to the first league.

He was married to female handball player Branka Zuber.

On September 9 1982 Jurica Lakić died in a car accident in front of his house. A police cruiser collided with Lakić's car on the left side where he was sitting. He died on the operating table.

From 1984 to 1989 there was a memorial tournament for Jurica Lakić organized in Karlovac and Rijeka by his former clubs respectively.


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