Petar Metličić (born 25 December 1976) is a Croatian former

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. He was captain of the Croatian national team"Croatia"
– ''European Handbal Federation'' (Retrieved on January 25, 2008) from 2006 to 2009, after the departure of

Slavko Goluža Slavko Goluža (born 17 September 1971) is a retired Croatian handball player and most recently coach of RK Zagreb. Club career Goluža was born in the village of Pješivac-Kula near Stolac. He began his career with RK Mehanika Metković. A ...

. He won the gold medal at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

Profile: "Petar Metlicic"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on January 25, 2008) as well as at the 2003 World Championship in Portugal. At club level he played in the top tier in Croatia, Spain, Slovenia and France. He has won the

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

three times and the EHF Champions Trophy twice with

BM Ciudad Real Balonmano Ciudad Real was a Spanish handball team based in Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha. BM Ciudad Real played in Liga ASOBAL. History In July 1983 is founded in the city of Ciudad Real a handball club named Asociación Deportiva Cultural ...

as well as the

IHF Super Globe The Men's Super Globe is a 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 bal ...

and EHF Cup Winner's Cup with

CB Ademar León Abanca Ademar León is a Spanish handball team based in León, Spain. It plays in Liga ASOBAL. History Founded in 1956, Ademar León is the handball team of the city of León. Until 1975 it played in the provincial categories when not existi ...

, and the

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

with RK Metković Jambo. In September 2007 he opened, alongside his former colleague

Ivano Balić Ivano Balić (; born 1 April 1979) is a Croatian former professional handballer who is currently part of the coaching staff at RK Split. Renowned for his speed, creativity, movement and charisma as a player, Balić won the 2003 World Men's Handb ...

, the "Balić-Metličić" handball academy. Metličić is also a coach in the academy. From February 2015 to January 2017 he served as an assistant coach to Željko Babić in the Croatia men's team.

Honours

Player

;Brodomerkur Split * Croatian First A League **Runner up (2): 1996–97, 1997–98 * Croatian First B League - South **Winner (1): 1994–95 ;Metković Jambo * Croatian First League **Winner (1): 2001–02 (revoked) * Croatian First A League **Winner (3): 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01 * Croatian Cup **Winner (2): 2001, 2002 *

**Winner (1): 2000 **Finalist (1): 2001 ;Ademar Leon * EHF Cup Winner's Cup **Winner (1): 2005 *

Supercopa ASOBAL The Supercopa ASOBAL or the Supercopa de España de Balonmano was an annual cup competition for Spanish handball teams. It was organised by the Liga ASOBAL. It was first played for in 1985 and was disputed between the Liga ASOBAL champions and the ...

**Finalist (1): 2003 ;Ciudad Real *

Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990. The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of ...

**Winner (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 **Runner up (1): 2005–06 *

Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

**Winner (1):

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

**Finalist (2):

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

* Copa ASOBAL **Winner (3): 2006, 2007, 2008 **Finalist (1): 2010 *

**Winner (1): 2008 **Finalist (2): 2009, 2010 *

**Winner (3): 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09 * EHF Champions Trophy **Winner (2): 2006, 2008 *

**Winner (2):

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

;Pivovarna Laško Celje * 1. NLB Leasing liga **Runner up (1): 2011–12 * Slovenian Cup **Winner (1): 2012 ;Montpellier *

LNH Division 1 LNH Division 1, doing business as Starligue and currently known as Liqui Moly Starligue for sponsorship reasons, is the premier men's professional handball league in France. It is administered by the Ligue Nationale de Handball, under delegatio ...

**Runner up (1): 2012–13 *Coupe de la France **Winner (1): 2013 ;Individual *Best Croatian handball player by '' Sportske novosti'' & HRS – 2003 *

Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport () is the highest recognition that Republic of Croatia gives for extraordinary achievements and contributions of remarkable meaning for the development of sport in Croatia. This award has been given since 1991. I ...

– 2004

Orders

* Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar – 2004

References

External links

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Best Croatian handball players, coaches and referee's
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