Mateo Hrvatin
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| Born |
15 August 1980 Rijeka, Croatia | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Croatian | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left wing | ||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Zamet | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||
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| 1997-2000 2000-2009 2009 2009-2013 2013-2015 2015-present |
RK Pećine Zamet CO Zagreb Zamet Crikvenica Zamet | ||||||||||||||
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| 2008-2010 | Croatia | 15 (32) | |||||||||||||
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| 2014-2015 | Sports director | Crikvenica | |||||||||||||
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| 2014 | RK Crikvenica (interim) | ||||||||||||||
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Mateo Hrvatin (born 15 August 1980 in Rijeka) is a Croatian handballer, who plays as left winger for RK Zamet. He was selected by the Croatian national team for the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship.
Career
Mateo Hrvatin started playing handball in Rijeka at local club RK Kvarner. At Kvarner he passed various youth selections before playing at the senior level.
He started his senior career with club RK Pećine which at the time was in the First B League.[1]
In 2000 he got called up to play for Zamet in the First League (later Premier League) where he spent most of his career. Hrvatin's first two seasons saw him playing at top level in the league and reaching the finals of the Croatian Cup. He debuted in his first European competition in the EHF Cup Winners' Cup, reaching the fourth round in 2001 and 2002 being eliminated by FC Porto and Montpellier.[2] Hrvatin established himself quickly in Zamet. Up until the 2006-07 season Zamet was in top flight of the league and then the club hit financial trouble so big that at one time they weren't paying salaries to Hrvatin and captain Milan Uzelac among others.
In 2008. Hrvatin was called up to play for the national team by coach Lino Červar and was picked for the 2009 World Championship. In January 2009, Hrvatin moved to Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb for the remainder of the 2008-09 season and with the club won the Premier League and Cup.[3]
In July 2009 Hrvatin returned to Zamet and stayed there for four more years. In his second spell his most notable accomplishment was reaching the finals in the Croatian Cup in 2012 and playing qualifiers in the EHF Cup the next season. They lost their first qualifier to Meso Lovoseice on aggregate.
In August 2013 Hrvatin left Zamet and started playing for RK Crikvenica.[4] For two seasons he competed for the club in First league (second tier) and at one time he was the coach and sports director.[5]
In August 2015 Hrvatin announced that he'd be returning to Zamet yet again.[6] After his announcement there was a lot of doubt if Hrvatin could still play at top level because he had turned 35. In his first season back, he showed great form and ended up being the clubs top scorer of the season while helping Zamet to the league play-offs for the first time in ten years. Zamet finished in fourth place reaching the EHF Cup qualifiers.[7] During the qualifiers they beat Créteil and CSM București.
Honours
- Player
- RK Zamet
- Croatian Handball Cup
- Finalist (2): 2001, 2012
- RK Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb
- Dukat Premier League
- Winner(1): 2008-09
- Croatian Handball Cup
- Winner(1): 2009
- Croatia
- 2009 World Championship - 2nd place
- Individual
- Selection of the most successful athletes by: COC - 2009
- RK Zamet hall of fame - 2015
- Best fastbreak goal percentage in Dukat Premier League season 2015-16 - 84,9% [8]
Orders
References
- ↑ "RK Pećine - O klubu" (in Croatian). rk-pecine.hr. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "Kup kupova: Montpellier ipak prejak za Zamet" (in Croatian). sportnet.hr. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "Červar doveo Hrvatina u Zagreb!" (in Croatian). index.hr. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "ODLAZI NAJBOLJI STRIJELACMateo Hrvatin: Razočaran sam, ali Zamet će uvijek biti moj klub" (in Croatian). Novi list. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "MATEO HRVATIN KAŽE: Dogovorili smo suradnju sa Zametom" (in Croatian). sportcom.hr. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "Mateo Hrvatin potpisao za Zamet" (in Croatian). rijekadanas.com. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ↑ "Rukometaši Zameta ostvarili najbolji plasman nakon petnaestak godina" (in Croatian). sportcom.hr. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ↑ "Najveći prosjek pogodaka". rukometstat.com (in Croatian).
- ↑ "ODLUKU kojom se odlikuju REDOM HRVATSKOG PLETERA". Narodne novine (in Croatian).
Sources
- Igrači-aktualni sastav (Croatian)
- Mateo Hrvatin uspješno debitirao na Svjetskom prvenstvu (Croatian)