Roberto Sošić 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. Sošić was born in Rovinj,

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(now

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, at the time

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). He joined

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 ...

, based in Rijeka, in the early part of his career. Sošić played for many years in

, and he's considered one of the most important players in the club's history, being, together with Jurica Lakić, Alvaro Načinović, Vlado Vukoje, and Mateo Hrvatin one of Zamet's only five players who managed to play for Yugoslavia men's national handball team, Yugoslavia's national team.

References

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