Igor Vori (born 20 September 1980) is a Croatian retired

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 and current coach. He is currently working as the sports director of the Croatian national team. Vori competed for

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in the 2004, 2008 and the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

Club career

Vori played in

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 ...

and has also played for

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and

Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Paris SG or simply PSG is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. As Fr ...

. He won the

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 ...

with

HSV Hamburg Handball Sport Verein Hamburg is a handball club from Germany, located in Hamburg. Currently, Handball Hamburg competes in the Handball-Bundesliga. The full name in German is ''Handball Sport Verein Hamburg e.V.'' but the club has traditionally ...

during the 2012–13 season. Vori was shortlisted in the IHF's election of the 2009 World Handball Player of the Year. He retired in June 2018.

International career

Vori is World champion from 2003, and Olympic champion from 2004 with the Croatian national team. He received a silver medal at the 2005 World Championship, and a silver medal at the 2008 European Championship, where he also was voted ''Best defensive player''. At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

held in

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, Vori was part of the Croatian squad that reached the semifinals, after defeating

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in the quarter-final. They lost their semifinal against

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and lost to

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in the bronze medal match, ending fourth in the tournament. At the 2009 World Championship held in Croatia, Vori was part of the silver medal winning team, as well as being voted ''Player of the Tournament'', but was given a red card during the final match after pretending to throw the ball at a referee's face. Vori was part of the Croatian squad at the

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, where they lost to France in the semifinal, winning the bronze medal game against

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, as well as he has played with Croatia at the

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and 2015 World Championships, and 2014 and 2018 European Championships.

Coaching career

On 1 June 2020, following the resignation of

Veselin Vujović Veselin Vujović (born 18 January 1961) is a Montenegrin handball coach and former professional player. He is the current coach of Iran national team. As a player, Vujović competed at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics for the Yugoslavia natio ...

, Vori was named the new head coach of

, which became his first head coaching job in career. On 9 October, he was sacked. In March 2022 he was announced as new head coach of U21 Croatia national team.

Honours

Zagreb * Croatian Premier League: 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2016–17, 2017–18 * Croatian Cup: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2017, 2018 Conversano *Serie A: 2002–03 *Italian Cup: 2003 FC Barcelona *

Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990. The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of 1 ...

: 2005–06 *

Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...

: 2007 * Supercopa ASOBAL: 2006–07 * Pirenees Leagues: 2005–06, 2006–07 HSV Hamburg *

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

: 2010–11 *

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 ...

: 2010 *Super Cup: 2009, 2010 *

: 2012–13 PSG *

LNH Division 1 LNH Division 1, doing business as Starligue and currently known as Liqui Moly Starligue for sponsorship reasons, is the premier men's professional handball league in France. It is administered by the Ligue Nationale de Handball, under delegation ...

: 2014–15, 2015–16 *Coupe de France: 2014, 2015 *Trophée des champions: 2014, 2015 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 *Best defensive player at the 2008 European Championship *Player of the Tournament at the 2009 World Championship *Best line player at the 2010 European Championship

Orders

Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar

References

External links

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