Damian Przytuła (born 27 November 1998) is a Polish professional

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for

RK Zagreb Rukometni klub Zagreb (, ) is a men's professional handball club from Zagreb, Croatia. It competes in the Croatian Premier League and the EHF Champions League. RK Zagreb has won 38 national championships and the national cup 32 times. The c ...

and the Polish national team.

Career

Club

Damian started his career in the third division ITS Jeziorak Iława. In the 2015/2016 season, he played 10 matches in the third division and scored 56 goals. Despite being Jeziorak's youngest player, he was the team's second most successful player. He was then confirmed by the second division

Warmia Olsztyn Warmia ( ; Latin: ''Varmia'', ''Warmia''; ; Warmian: ''Warńija''; Old Prussian: ''Wārmi'') is both a historical and an ethnographic region in northern Poland, forming part of historical Prussia. Its historic capitals were Frombork and Lidzb ...

. He also spent only one season here, in 2017 he was signed by the first division

MMTS Kwidzyn MMTS Kwidzyn is a men's handball club from Kwidzyn, Poland, that plays in the Superliga. The current name of the club is Energa Borys MMTS Kwidzyn due to sponsorship reasons. History The team was founded in 1998. In the 1999/2000 season, i ...

. He made his debut in the first division, the

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, on November 22, 2017, in a loss against

KS Azoty-Puławy KS Azoty-Puławy is a team handball, men's handball club from Puławy, Poland, that plays in the Polish Superliga (men's handball), Superliga. History The club was founded on the initiative of :pl:Jerzy Witaszek, Jerzy Witaszek, Piotr Dropek ...

(18:27), in which he scored two goals. In the 2017/2018 season, he played in 21 matches in the

and scored 26 goals. In the 2017/2018 season, he was temporarily on loan in the second division team of

Pomezania Malbork Pomezania Malbork is a sports club based in Malbork, Poland. The club now focuses solely on football, but previously also had a handball team. The football team was formed as ''"Bractwo Piłkarskie ″Pomezania″ Malbork"'' in 1990 the club beca ...

(11 games and 21 goals). He was confirmed by

Górnik Zabrze Górnik Zabrze Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Górnik Zabrze S.A. or simply Górnik Zabrze (), is a Polish association football, football club from Zabrze. Górnik is one of the most successful Polish football clubs in history, winning ...

in 2021. In June 2024, it was announced that he would be moving to the number three Hungarian club, MOL Tatabánya KC, starting in the

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, from the summer. He scored 20 goals in 8 matches in the

. At the end of February 2025, it was announced that the Croatian record champion

bought him from the MOL Tatabánya KC team and he transferred to the Croatian team with immediate effect.

National team

In 2016, he participated in the U-18 European Championship in Croatia, where he played 7 matches and scored 8 goals. In 2018, he played at the European U-20 Championship in Slovenia, where he played in 7 games and scored 5 goals. In December 2018, coach

Piotr Przybecki Piotr Przybecki (born 7 August 1972) is a retired Polish handball player and current coach for VfL Lübeck-Schwartau. He was a member of the Poland men's national handball team, Polish handball team at the 2004 European Men's Handball Champions ...

invited him to the training camp of the Polish national team for the first time. He made his debut for the

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on December 28, 2018 against

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. He scored his first goal on January 3, 2019 in a friendly match lost against

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

(28:30).https://archive.today/20190105101907/https://zprp.pl/archiwa/67204 He also participated in the

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as a member of the

Poland men's national handball team The Poland men's national handball team is controlled by the Polish Handball Association (''Związek Piłki Ręcznej w Polsce''), and represents Poland in international matches. Honours Competitive record Olympic Games World Champio ...

. (25th place, 7 matches / 26 goals).

References

External links

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European Handball Federation The European Handball Federation (EHF) is the umbrella organisation for European handball. Founded on 17 November 1991, it is made of 50 member federations and two associated federations (England and Scotland), and is headquartered in Vienna, Au ...

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* * 1998 births Living people Polish male handball players Sportspeople from Olsztyn 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-handball-bio-stub