Zagreb changed 17 coaches in 10 years!? And the national team finally dawned with a stranger …

It’s not easy to be a coach Zagreb. Felt it in these six months and Velimir Petkovic. One kix, one draw against Nexeathe first lost point in the match box in the Croatian Championship after 18 years and Friday is no longer on the bench. Zagreb has lost last season since Nexe, so coaches have not changed in the last weeks of the season. The matter was simple here, after relegation from the Champions League Petkovic’s team no longer played the same handball.

On the one hand, nothing unexpected because the domestic championship, with the exception of the derby with Nexe, is a pure work for the Zagreb, but this is not just their problem. However, the problem is when such an attitude is drawn into the team and when it should be squeezed stronger than usual as it took for the third time in the last month and a half against Nexe. The first two succeeded in the « muscles, but in essence Petkovic did not tear the team from long -lasting lethargy, and when players do not follow the coach … She ended up in the season in February in Aalborg in February, and that doesn’t go that way in professional sports.

Zagreb: RK Zagreb and RK Nexe in the 10th round of the Champions League round |

Photo: Sanjin Strukic/Pixsell

On the Zagreb bench the season started Andrija Nikolicwho left after a bad series in the Champions League and today introduced Dugo Selo for the first time in the Premier League and in the semi -finals of the Cup. They persuaded Fridays to come, he started beating Magdeburg, who remained in 18 goals in the Arena, and today he is in Koln in the Final Four. The only Petkovic kiks to Nexe was a draw against Kolstada at the Arena although it is the impression that Zagreb, at least then Roe deerneeded more against Nantes on that evening when Milos Kos knocked out Matej Mandic. Detail, and that is Nantes today at the Final Four.

Zagreb now has to find a man who will endlessly bring the season to the end even though Nexe has grown a chance against such Zagreb. In the club reserve is Nenad Sostaricas the head of the youth school, and the most logical fire solution. If such is the plan at all.

Zagreb: RK Zagreb and RK Nexe in the 10th round of the Champions League round |

Photo: Sanjin Strukic/Pixsell

While, for example, Patrice Canayer In Montpellier, he lasted 30 years (!), Zagreb has made 17 coaching changes in the last ten years. Of Veselina Vujovic, which lasted the longest during this period (from 2014 to 2016), no one did the complete season anymore. This certainly does not show seriousness and consistency, in which the Croatian champion should be an example. Or maybe it is, as in the national team, the time for the first stranger? Not a stranger from our spoken area, so that there would be no. Croatian handball players, here, finally dawn …

Zagreb coaches in the last decade:

Veselin Vujovic (2014-2016)
Andrija Nikolic (2016, temporary)
Silvio Ivandi (2016-2017)
Slavko Goluza (2017, temporary)
Kasim Kamenica (2017)
Zlatko Saracevic (2017-2018)
Lino Cervar (2018)
Branko Tamše (2019)
Veselin Vujovic (2019-2020)
Igor Vori (2020)
Vlado Sola (2020–2021)
Ivica Obvan (2021–2022)
Tonči Valčić/Denis Špoljarić (2022, temporary)
Slavko Goluza (2022–2023)
Nenad Sostaric (2023-2024)
Andrija Nikolic (2023–2024)
Velimir Petkovic (2024-2025)