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Croatian handball is in shock. On Sunday night, champion Podravka Koprivnica’s coach Zlatko Saracevic (60 years old), the former great Yugoslavia international, died!
Zlatko Saracevic, heart attack after the game
Podravka Koprivnica played the championship derby on Sunday night, with rival Lokomotiva Zagreb. The team where Romanian goalkeeper Iulia Dumanska plays won 32-29! People from Podravka say that Saracevic was in a good mood and happy that his team was once again the favorite for a new title. But after leaving the gym in the car, he got sick. He was with the goalkeeping coach who immediately called the ambulance. Looks like he had a heart attack. They rushed him to Koprivnica Hospital, resuscitated him for 40 minutes, but to no avail!
Zlatko Saracevic is the 1996 Atlanta Olympic champion
Zlatko Saracevic is a Croatian handball legend who won the gold medal with the Croatian team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. With the Yugoslavia national team at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he won bronze and world gold in Switzerland. in 1986. With Croatia he also won a world silver medal in 1995 and a European bronze medal in 1994. He played for the main European handball teams Medveščak Zagreb, Nimes, Bordeaux, Creteil, Istres, Zagreb, Veszprem and Zamet. In the summer, Saracevic had been announced that he would not continue at Podravka and would be replaced by Danube Brăila’s coach, Neven Hrupec.
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