Ivan Pešić (born 17 March 1989) is a Croatian

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 ...

goalkeeper for

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and the Croatian national team. The first few years as a player played Pešić in his hometown

Rijeka Rijeka ( , , ; also known as Fiume hu, Fiume, it, Fiume ; local Chakavian: ''Reka''; german: Sankt Veit am Flaum; sl, Reka) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Primor ...

RK Zamet RK Zamet (Rukometni Klub Zamet) is a handball club from Rijeka, Croatia, formed in 1957. The club currently competes in the Croatian Premier Handball League and the Croatian Handball Cup. Although the club has not won any mayor trophies, it has p ...

and with production license in Croatian second division club RK Senj. He then played for the Hungarian club

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, with which he won in the 2008/09 season, league and cup, as well as the Croatian first division club

RK Zagreb Rukometni klub Zagreb ( en, Zagreb Handball Club, ) is a men's professional handball club from Zagreb, Croatia. It competes in the Croatian Premier League, SEHA League, and the EHF Champions League. RK Zagreb won 33 national championships a ...

, with whom he won three times the double. In 2012 he joined the Slovenian club

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. After one season, he signed with the Belarusian club HC Meshkov Brest, with whom he again champion and cup winner was, 2014. At a dance hall in February 2009 some hungarians people attacked Pešić and teammate Marin Cozma with a knife. Pešić was so badly injured by a knife that he had to remove a kidney. His teammate Marian Cozma died after two stab wounds to the heart, another colleague, Žarko Šešum, suffered skull fractures due to heavy kicks to the head. Even though Pešić was an unseen substitute at the

2009 World Men's Handball Championship The 2009 World Men's Handball Championship (21st tournament) took place in Croatia from 16 January to 1 February, in the cities of Split, Zadar, Osijek, Varaždin, Poreč, Zagreb and Pula. Croatia was selected from a group of four potential hos ...

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he still won a medal. Pešić has played for Croatia at the 2011 World Championship,

2013 Mediterranean Games The 2013 Mediterranean Games ( tr, 2013 Akdeniz Oyunları), officially known as the XVII Mediterranean Games ( tr, XVII Akdeniz Oyunları) and commonly known as Mersin 2013, was an international multi-sport event held from 20 to 30 June 2013 i ...

and has recently been called up for the 2016 Summer Olympics qualification tournament

Honours

;Zamet II * 3. HRL - West: 2004-05 * Croatian Championship U-18 runner-up: 2008 ;Veszprém *

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: 2008–09 * Magyar Cup: 2009 ;Zagreb * Dukat Premier League: 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12 *

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 ...

: 2010, 2011, 2012 ;Meshkov Brest *

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: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016-17 *Belarusian Cup: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 *

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 ...

runner-up: 2013–14, 2014–15 ;Individual *

Dražen Petrović Award Dražen Petrović Award ( hr, Nagrada Dražen Petrović) is an award established in 2006 by the Croatian Olympic Committee. Awarded to talented young athletes and teams for outstanding sporting results and sports development. The award was named aft ...

- 2007

References

1989 births Living people Croatian male handball players Handball players from Rijeka Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players of Croatia RK Zamet players RK Zagreb players Veszprém KC players Expatriate handball players Croatian expatriates in Hungary Croatian expatriates in Slovenia Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Croatia Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in handball {{Croatia-handball-bio-stub