Goran Šprem (born 6 July 1979) is a Croatian former

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. Šprem started his professional career with

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in the late 1990s. He also spent a season with

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in 2001 and 2002, before returning to RK Zagreb for a second spell with the club between 2002 and 2004. He eventually left RK Zagreb for German side

SG Flensburg-Handewitt SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since formin ...

in October 2004. He left Flensburg for a short spell with

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in February 2005, returning to the club in the summer of the same year and eventually spending a season with them. In the summer of 2006, he left Flensburg for a short spell with

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, before joining his current club, HSG Nordhorn, in November 2006. He left Nordhorn in 2009. Šprem is also a member of the Croatian national handball team, with whom he won gold medals at the

2003 World Men's Handball Championship The 2003 World Men's Handball Championship took place in Portugal from 20 January to 2 February 2003. It was the 18th edition of the World Championship in team handball and Croatia won the championship. Qualification First round Group A ...

and the

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."2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 1, 2008) He also won two silver medals with the Croatian national team at the

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s in

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and

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, and participated at the

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, where Croatia finished fourth. Since his retirement he's been a pundit on

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Honours

;Zagreb * Dukat Premier League **Winner (9): 1996-97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999-00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2010–11 *

Croatian Cup Croatian Cup may refer to: *Croatian Football Cup *Croatian Football Super Cup * Croatian Women's Football Cup *Croatian Basketball Cup, also known as Krešimir Ćosić Cup *Croatian Handball Cup *Croatian Water Polo Cup *Croatian Minute Movie Cup ...

**Winner (8): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011 *

EHF Champions League The Men's EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the me ...

**Finalist (2): 1997-98, 1998-99 ;SG Flensburg-Handewitt *

DHB-Pokal The DHB-Pokal (English: German Handball Federation Cup) is an elimination handball tournament held annually in Germany. It is the second most important handball national title in the country after the Handball-Bundesliga The Handball-Bund ...

**Winner (1): 2005 ;HSG Nordhorn *

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previ ...

**Winner (1): 2008 ;Individual *

Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport ( hr, Državna nagrada za šport "Franjo Bučar") is the highest recognition that Republic of Croatia gives for extraordinary achievements and contributions of remarkable meaning for the development of sport in Cr ...

- 2004

Orders

Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar - 2004

References

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1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Dubrovnik Croatian male handball players Olympic handball players for Croatia Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Croatia in handball RK Zagreb players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in handball {{Croatia-Olympic-medalist-stub