Diego Modrušan (born 2 September 1980) is a Croatian professional handball player. He won two Croatian Championships with

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and the

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with

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. Modrušan play as a goalkeeper.

Career

He started playing handball at age thirteen. In 2000 he signed with

RK Zagreb Rukometni klub Zagreb (, ) is a men's professional handball club from Zagreb, Croatia. It competes in the Croatian Premier League and the EHF Champions League. RK Zagreb has won 38 national championships and the national cup 32 times. The c ...

, where he won two consecutive titles and made his debut in the

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. In 2002 he moved to Pallamano Trieste. In the second part of the 2003–2004 season he passed on loan to Ascoli, with which he managed to avoid relegation. On his return to Trieste he won the only Handball Trophy in the history of the club, and reached the ''finale Scudetto'' (finals). In 2007 came the call of Italian champion

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, which made another important acquisition with Modrušan after Vito Fovio the year before. Modrušan won the Italian 2007/2008 Serie A with Casarano, as well as the

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. In the following season, he moved to

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. Modrušan didn't end the season with Prato, because during the same season he moved to Emmeti. At the beginning of the 2009–2010 season he returned to Trieste and stayed there for three seasons. In 2012 he returned to Croatia after ten years, joining Umag. In 2016 he returned for the third and last time to Trieste. He was in the Croatian national team that won the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis. In 2008 he was called up by the Italian university team to compete in the world championship held in

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and Meolo.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Modrusan, Diego 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Pula Croatian male handball players Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia Mediterranean Games medalists in handball Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 21st-century Croatian sportsmen