Petar Metličić

Petar Metličić (born 25 December 1976 in Split) is a former Croatian handball player. He was captain of the Croatian national team[1] from 2006 to 2009 after the departure of Slavko Goluža.[2] He won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens[3][4] as well as the 2003 World Handball Championship in Portugal.

Petar Metličić
Personal information
Born (1976-12-25) 25 December 1976
Split, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position Right back
Youth career
Team
RK Split
Senior clubs
Years Team
1993–1998
RK Brodokumer Split
1998–2002
Metković Jambo
2002–2005
CB Ademar León
2005–2010
Ciudad Real
2010–2012
RK Pivovarna Laško Celje
2012–2013
Montpellier
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2009
Croatia 175 (471)
Teams managed
2015–2017
Croatia (assistant)

At club level he played in the top tier in Croatia, Spain, Slovenia and France. He has won the EHF Champions League three times with BM Ciudad Real and the EHF Champions Trophy twice as well as the IHF Super Globe, EHF Cup Winner's Cup with CB Ademar León and the EHF Cup with RK Metković Jambo.

In September 2007 he opened alongside Ivano Balić the handball academy Balić-Metličić. Metličić is also a coach in the academy.[5]

Since February 2015 he's been the assistant coach of Croatia.[6]

Honours

Player

Split
Metković
Ademar Leon
Ciudad Real
Pivovara Laško Celje
Montpellier
Individual

Orders

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References

  1. "Croatia" Archived 5 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine European Handbal Federation (Retrieved on January 25, 2008)
  2. "Petar Metličić - legendarni kapetan zlatne generacije". gol.dnevnik.hr.
  3. Profile: "Petar Metlicic" Archived 25 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 25, 2008)
  4. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Petar Metličić". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  5. "O klubu". www.balicmetlicic.com. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  6. "Babić je novi izbornik hrvatskih rukometaša". sport.hrt.hr.
  7. "Petar Metličić biografija". hoo.hr (in Croatian).
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Slavko Goluža
5
Captain of Croatia
2006-2009
Succeeded by
Igor Vori
7
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