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Alvaro Načinović (born 22 March 1966) is a former
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n
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player who competed for
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and
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respectively. He played for his hometown club Zamet Rijeka with whom he entered into the
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in 1987 after winning the Second League in
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. The same year he won the
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with Yugoslavia U-21 in his club's home
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in
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.
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beat
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in the final. In 1992 Načinović played for RK Zagreb Loto with whom he won the European Champions Cup. He also spent six years in
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playing for RK Pivovarna Laško Celje with a brief season at Zamet before coming to
RK Crikvenica RK Mornar-Crikvenica (Rukometni Klub Mornar-Crikvenica) is a handball club from Crikvenica, Croatia, formed in 2017 by the merger of RK Crivenica and RK Mornar. History RK Mornar (1980–2017) RK Mornar was founded 26 May 1980 in Dramalj on the i ...
. Načinović spent five years in
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before retiring in 2006. He won the bronze medal with
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at the
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and also captained the national team of
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to a gold medal at the
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, silver medal at the 1995 World Championship and a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championship. He made 105 appearances for the national team scoring 165 goals. Since April 2016 he is the sports director of RK Kozala.


Career

Načinović first played for his hometown club of Zamet at youth level. He started playing for the senior squad in March 1983. In 1987 Zamet won the
Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...
and got promoted to
Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...
. Two years later after the departure of Darko Dunato, Načinović became team captain. After five seasons in the first Yugoslav league Načinović transferred to Zagreb Loto. That season Načinović was part of a historic
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team which won Croatian league,
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and European Champions Cup. Načinović returned to Zamet in the summer of 1992. In September of the same year the club played against Laško Pivovara Celje in the first round of European Champions Cup. With poor league results and a coaching aftermath going in his club Načinović left for
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at the end of the season. He played in Celje for five years playing top level
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and winning the
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n league and cup every year. In
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he played against
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in the 1/8 final of the
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and lost by one goal on aggregate. The next season they got to the semi-final and lost to
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by one goal on aggregate. The next season Celje was once again eliminated in the semi-final, by
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. In 1998 Načinović returned to Zamet then Zamet Autotrans for a season helping them in EHF City Cup and league. After a season and a half he returned to Laško Pivovara Celje where he dominated the league and cup for two more years. In 2001 Načinović went to play for
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under his former teammate and coach
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. His stay in Crikvenica was the club's golden era, playing in the
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and staying there for five seasons. The club's success was due to veteran players such as Načinović, Mladen Prskalo, Marin Mišković, Zvonimir Kutija, Mario Brož,
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,
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and younger players like Mirjan Horvat and Igor Montanari Knez. In 2006 Načinović retired at the club.


International career

As a young player Načinović showed great promise and got called up to play for Yugoslav U-19 team at
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in
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1985 and
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in 1987 where his team and won the final against
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in his hometown of
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at
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. Načinović debuted for
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in June 1988 in a match against
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which was played in Pucarevo. In the same month he played at the tournament 27th Trophy of Yugoslavia which was played in
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. Three months later Načinović competed at
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where
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got to the semi-finals losing (18:24) to
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who would win the tournament. Yugoslavia won third place defeating
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27:23. Načinović made 33 appearances for the Yugoslavia national handball team. Načinović also played for Croatia national handball team. He played in
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's first tournament appearance at
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in
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where they won a gold medal. Načinović competed for
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in eight major tournaments winning a bronze medal at 1994 European Championship, silver medals at 1995 World Championship, and a gold medal at 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. In
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he scored the first goal for
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at the tournament in the first match against
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. After the tournament he retired along with a few of the older player from
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. But he returned in 1997 after
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's poor performances he returned to help the national team. He later played at the 1998 European Championship in
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and at the 1999 Super Cup in
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. Načinović retired from the Croatian national team in 2000 although his wish was to retire at the 2000 European Championship in
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it didn't come true due to coach
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not calling him up.


Retirement

Since his retirement from professional handball Načinović has become a sports director at
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. In 2012 Načinović became a member of The Committee of State Award for Sport which function is deciding and giving the most prestigious
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the
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. The same year he appeared in a documentary called Riječki Olimpijci. In 2016 he appeared in two documentaries and which follows the events of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta were
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won their first
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gold medal in
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and in general.


Personal life

Načinović has a son named Veron who is currently playing
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for
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 ha ...
.


Honours

;RK Zamet *
Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...
(1): 1986–87 ;RK Zagreb Loto * Croatian First A League (1):
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*
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 The Croatian Water Polo C ...
(1):
1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...
* European Champions Cup (1): 1991–92 ;RK Celje Pivovara Laško *
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(7): 1993-94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999-00, 2000–01 *
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(7):
1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
,
1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
,
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
,
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
,
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
,
2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
,
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
;Individual * Ivica Jobo Kurtini Award: 1988 *Best Croatian sports team by: COC: 1995 and 1996 *
Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport () is the highest recognition that Republic of Croatia gives for extraordinary achievements and contributions of remarkable meaning for the development of sport in Croatia. This award has been given since 1991. I ...
- 1996 * Plack with names of Rijeka's
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medalists - 2014 *
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 ha ...
hall of fame - 2015 ;Yugoslavia * 1985 IHF Junior World Championship Italy - 3rd * 1987 IHF Junior World Championship Yugoslavia - 1st * 1988 Summer Olympics Seoul - 3rd ;Croatia * 1993 Mediterranean Games Languedoc-Roussillon - 1st * 1994 European Championship Portugal - 3rd * 1995 World Championship Island - 2nd * 1996 European Championship Spain- 5th * 1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta - 1st * 1998 European Championship Italy - 8th * 1999 Super Cup Germany - 2nd


Orders

* Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar - 1995


Sources

*Petar Orgulić - 50 godina rukometa u Rijeci (2005), Adriapublic *Mišo Cvijanović, Igor Duvnjak, Tonko Kraljić & Orlando Rivetti - 4 ASA (2007), Adriapublic


References


External links


Eurohandball profileRK Zamet history
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