Maja Sokač (née Zebić; born 31 May 1982)
is a Croatian
handball
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er playing in the left wing position for the
Croatian national team and
Ankara Yenimahalle.
Club career
Sokač started to play handball in Croatian club Sinj. In 1996, she joined senior team of Split Kaltenberg who competed in first Croatian league. In 2004, she joined Lokomotiva Zagreb, and same season she transferred to
Podravka Vegeta. Besides winning many Croatian Championship and Croatian Cup trophies, she played in
Cup Winners' Cup
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finals in 2005 and
EHF Cup
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finals in 2006. In
Champions League she played 44 matches and scored 131 goals. In the 2011/2012 season Sokač played for
Spanish
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...
Champions and
Champions League runners-up
SD Itxako.
Trophies
*Spanish Supercup
**Gold: 2008/2009
*Women's Regional Handball League
**Gold: 2008/2009
**Silver: 2009/2010, 2010/2011
*Croatian Championship
**Gold: 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011
*Croatian Cup
**Gold: 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011
References
External links
Interview with Maja Zebić on official site of RK Podravka
1982 births
Living people
Croatian female handball players
21st-century Croatian sportswomen
Olympic handball players for Croatia
Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Handball players from Split, Croatia
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Croatia
Handball players at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
RK Podravka Koprivnica players
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Croatian expatriate handball players in Spain
Expatriate handball players in North Macedonia
Expatriate handball players in Turkey
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