Nenad Šoštarić (born 16 February 1959) 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 of both,
RK Lokomotiva Zagreb and the
Croatian women's national team.
Career
Šoštarić took over the Croatian women's national team as the head coach on 20 September 2017, following the sacking of
Goran Mrđen. He guided them to the sixteenth and last place in the
2018 European Championship. Two years later, Šoštarić led Croatia to a surprising bronze medal at the
2020 European Championship
The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2020) or simply Euro 2020, was the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe ...
in Denmark.
References
1959 births
Croatian handball coaches
Living people
Croatian male handball players
Handball coaches of international teams
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in China
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Jordan
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Handball players from Zagreb
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