Zlatan Saračević | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Saračević (left) as co-commentator of Croatian RTL
on 2015 World Men's Handball Championship in Qatar. |
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Full name | Zlatan Saračević | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Banja Luka, Yugoslavia |
5 July 1961 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Croatian, Bosnian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | left back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current club | Dubrovnik | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth clubs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RK Borac Banja Luka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1977-1987 1987-1990 1990-1993 1993-1994 1994-1995 1995-1997 1997-2000 2000-2002 2002-2003 |
Borac Banja Luka Medveščak Zagreb Créteil Badel 1862 Zagreb Fotex Veszprém Zamet Crotek |
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National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1980-1981 1981-1991 1992-2000 2000-2002 |
Yugoslavia U-21 Yugoslavia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina |
100(200) 81(244) |
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Teams managed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003-2004 2004-2005 2009-2010 2010-2015 2014 2016-present |
Zamet Crotek Nyíregyházi KSE RK Zagreb (Assistant coach) RK Zagreb (Interim) |
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Zlatan "Zlatko" Saračević (born 5 July 1961) is a Croatian former handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia and in the 1996 Summer Olympics for Croatia.
Since the 2015 World Championship he has been a commentator on RTL Televizija with Filip Brkić.
He was born in Banja Luka.
Product of the prolific youth academy RK Borac Banja Luka, he was one of the greater Yugoslavian players of the early 80s, whose junior team won the world junior championship, defeating the then invincible Soviet Union in the final. With the Yugoslav national team he would win the 1986 World Championship.
In 1988 he was part of the Yugoslav team which won the bronze medal. He played all six matches and scored nine goals.
He played for ten years in RK Borac Banja Luka winning the league and cup once. In 1987 he moved to RK Medveščak from Zagreb. During his three-year stay with the club he won the Yugoslav Cup in 1989 and 1990.
After his stint in RK Medveščak he moved to France where he played for seven years in , , Créteil and . He won the French First League two times and was the league's top goalscorer three time.