Venio Losert

Venio Losert

Personal information
Born	25 July 1976 Zavidovići, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	92 kilograms (203 lb)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Number	1
Senior clubs
1993-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2009 2009-2010 2010-2012 2012 2013-2014 2014	Badel 1862 Zagreb Garbel Saragosse Teka Cantabria BM Granollers Portland San Antonio CB Cangas Barcelona Créteil Ademar León Copenhague Targi Kielce Montpellier
National team
1995-2014	Croatia	211 (0)[1]
Medal record Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Team 2004 Athens Team 2012 London Team World Championship 1995 Iceland Team 2005 Tunisia Team 2009 Croatia Team European Championship 2012 Serbia Team

Venio Losert (born 25 July 1976) is a Croatian team handball player who plays at the goalkeeper position.

Losert was born in Zavidovići, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, grew up in Slavonski Brod, SR Croatia.

Winning the first medal at the age of 19 at 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, when Croatia won the first gold medal as an independent nation, he is considered the youngest debutant of the team.

Losert was also the member of the golden national handball team that won the first place at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

As a youngster he joined Badel Zagreb, the strongest team in the country and was part of the team who won the European Cup in 1992 and 1993. In total he won 7 league titles and 7 cups with Badel Zagreb. In 1999, Venio Losert took the plunge into Spanish handball, signing for Garbel Zaragoza (1999-2000). He later played for various ASOBAL League teams including Teka Cantabria (2000–01), BM Granollers (2001-04), Portland San Antonio (2004–05) and Cangas Frigoríficos del Morrazo. In the Portland team he won the ASOBAL League title.

As one of the best goal keepers, with plenty of honours in the game, Venio Losert was given the honour to be the flag bearer in London 2012. Unlike other icons of the handball, Losert has always called himself a "normal, regular and not a showy keeper who only does what's needed to keep the ball out". Losert has always been a key part of the Croatian national team, winning also silver medals in the 1995 and 2005 World Championships. He was voted Croatian player of the year in 1997.

Venio's current club is Franch club Montpellier.

Honours

Badel 1862 Zagreb

• Croatian First League (6): 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99
• Croatian Cup (6): 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
• EHF Champions League runner-up (4): 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999

Granollers

• EHF Cup runner-up (1): 2002

Portland San Antonio

• Liga ASOBAL (1): 2004-05
• Supercopa ASOBAL (1): 2004-05

Barcelona

• Copa del Rey (2): 2007, 2009
• Supercopa ASOBAL (2): 2007, 2009
• Pirenees Leagues (2): 2006-07, 2007-08

Vive Targi Kielce

• Polish Superliga (1): 2013-14
• Polish Cup (1): 2014

Montpellier

• Coupe de la Ligue (1): 2014

Orders

• Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar ^[2]

References

1. "XI European Championship 2014. Team Roster, Croatia" (PDF). EHF. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
2. "Venio Losert biography". hoo.hr (in Croatian).

• Official Olympic Reports

External links

• Stats