Zlatan Arnautović (; born 2 September 1956) is a Serbian former

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

coach and player who competed for Yugoslavia in the

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and in the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ...

Club career

Born in

Prijedor Prijedor ( sr-cyrl, Приједор, ) is a city in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it had a population of 80,916 inhabitants within its administrative limits. Prijedor is situated in the northwestern part of the Bosanska ...

, Arnautović started playing handball at his hometown club Bosnamontaža. He later played for Borac Banja Luka,

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, and Lagisa Naranco.

International career

At international level, Arnautović competed for

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

in two Olympic Games, winning the gold medal at the

. He was also a regular member of the team that won the 1986 World Championship.

Coaching career

During the 1990s, Arnautović served as head coach of both Crvena zvezda and Partizan.

Personal life

His surname derives from Arnaut, the Ottoman Turkish ethnonym for

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Honours

Player

;Borac Banja Luka * Yugoslav Handball Championship: 1980–81 * Yugoslav Handball Cup: 1978–79 * EHF Cup: 1990–91

Coach

;Crvena zvezda * Handball Championship of FR Yugoslavia: 1997–98

References

External links

Olympic record
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