Goran Šprem

Goran Šprem (born 6 July 1979 in Dubrovnik) is a retired Croatian handball player.

Goran Šprem
Personal information
Born	6 July 1979 Dubrovnik, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Left wing
Club information
Current club	Retired
Number	17
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1996-2001	Badel 1862 Zagreb
2001-2002	Medveščak Infosistem
2002-2004	RK Zagreb
2004-2005	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2005	TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke
2005-2006	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2006	MT Melsungen
2006-2009	HSG Nordhorn
2009-2011	Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb
2011-2013	VfL Gummersbach
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999-2009	Croatia	109	(277)
Medal record Representing  Croatia Men's Handball Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team World Championship 2003 Portugal Team 2005 Tunisia Team 2009 Croatia Team Statoil World Cup 2006 Sweden & Germany Team Mediterranean Games 2001 Tunis Team

Šprem started his professional career with RK Zagreb in the late 1990s. He also spent a season with RK Medveščak Zagreb in 2001 and 2002, before returning to RK Zagreb for a second spell with the club between 2002 and 2004. He eventually left RK Zagreb for German side SG Flensburg-Handewitt in October 2004. He left Flensburg for a short spell with TuS Nettelstedt in February 2005, returning to the club in the summer of the same year and eventually spending a season with them. In the summer of 2006, he left Flensburg for a short spell with MT Melsungen, before joining his current club, HSG Nordhorn, in November 2006. He left Nordhorn in 2009.

Šprem is also a member of the Croatian national handball team, with whom he won gold medals at the 2003 World Men's Handball Championship and the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1] He also won two silver medals with the Croatian national team at the World Men's Handball Championships in 2005 and 2009, and participated at the 2006 European Men's Handball Championship, where Croatia finished fourth.

Since his retirement he's been a pundit on RTL Televizija.[2]

Honours

Zagreb

• Dukat Premier League
  • Winner (9): 1996-97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999-00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2010–11
• Croatian Cup
  • Winner (8): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011
• EHF Champions League
  • Finalist (2): 1997-98, 1998-99

SG Flensburg-Handewitt

• DHB-Pokal
  • Winner (1): 2005

HSG Nordhorn

• EHF Cup
  • Winner (1): 2008

Individual

• Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport - 2004

Orders

• Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar - 2004 [3]

References

1. "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 1, 2008)
2. "2016 European Championship in one week". Vijesti.hr (in Croatian).
3. "President Mesić gives commendation" (in Croatian). Večernji list.

External links

• European Competition