Suzana Golja (''Golja-Zulijani'')
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.
She was born in
Labin,
Istria
Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...
(today
Croatia, at the time
SR Croatia in
SFR Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...
).
Golja started playing with local club
ŽRK Rudar Labin
ŽRK Rudar Labin is a Croatian women's handball club based in Labin. It was established in 1954. It plays in the 2. HRL West.
Several notable players from the club went on the play for the national team, both Croatia's and Yugoslavia's.
The play ...
.
She played for Norwegian club
Junkeren in the
Eliteserien in the 1990s.
Golja was a player of the
Croatian national handball team.
References
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Croatian female handball players
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Labin
Sportspeople from Istria County