Blaž Blagotinšek (born 17 January 1994) is a Slovenian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player who plays for

Frisch Auf Göppingen Turn- und Polizeisportgemeinschaft Frisch Auf Göppingen e.V. is a sports club from Germany, located in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg. The club's men's handball team plays under the name FRISCH AUF! Göppingen in Handball-Bundesliga. Nine-time c ...

and the

Slovenian national team Slovene or Slovenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe * Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia * Slovenes, an ethno-linguistic group mainly living in Slovenia * Sl ...

Career

Club

Blagotinšek was a member of Slovenian club

RK Celje Rokometni klub Celje ( en, Celje Handball Club), currently named Celje Pivovarna Laško due to sponsorship reasons, and commonly referred to as RK Celje or simply Celje, is a handball club from Celje, Slovenia. They were the winners of the Cham ...

until 2016, when he joined Hungarian team

Veszprém Veszprém (; german: Weißbrunn, sl, Belomost) is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. It lies approximately north of the Lake Balaton. It is the administrative center of the county (comitatus or 'megye') of ...

. In his last season with Celje, he scored 30 goals in the

2015–16 EHF Champions League The 2015–16 EHF Champions League was the 56th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 23rd edition under the current EHF Champions League format. FC Barcelona was the defending champion. Vive Targi Kielce defeated MVM Veszp ...

National team

In 2012 he was for the first time a member of the

when he was only 18 years old. He played in qualifications for the 2014 European Championship.

Honours

Individual

SEHA League South East Handball Association League or simply SEHA League is a regional men's club handball league in Southeast and East Europe, divided in two zones. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league is also known as the Gazprom League (or Gazprom South ...

All-Star Team Best Defensive Player: 2019–20,

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* 1994 births Living people Slovenian male handball players Sportspeople from Celje Olympic handball players of Slovenia Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Expatriate handball players Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Veszprém KC players Frisch Auf Göppingen players Handball-Bundesliga players {{Slovenia-handball-bio-stub