Milan Uzelac
Personal information
Full name Milan Uzelac
Born (1978-09-30) 30 September 1978
Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position Line player
Club information
Current club Zamet
Number 7
Youth career
Years Team
1991-1995
 RK Kvarner
Senior clubs
Years Team
1993-1995
 RK Kvarner
1995-1996
 RK Zamet
1996-1999
 RK Pećine
1997-2017
 RK Zamet
loan
 → RK Gold Klub
National team
Years Team
 Croatia U-18
 Croatia U-19
 Croatia U-21

Milan Uzelac (born 30 September 1978, in Rijeka) is a Croatian handballer, who plays as line player for RK Zamet.[1]

Career

Mile started his career in RK Kvarner. At the age of 15 he played for the senior team of RK Kvarner and he played an important role in Kvarner getting promotion form 2. league to 1.B league. [2]

He spent a season in Zamet helping them win the league getting back in the Croatian First League and winning the Croatian U-19 Championship with players like Mirza Džomba and Renato Sulić. Next season he played for RK Pećine[3] in the 1.B league. The following two years he played both for Zamet and Pećine due to them being in separate leagues. [4]

Mile has spent nearly 20 years in Zamet being with the club in hard and good times. With Zamet he came to Croatian Cup finals three time losing twice to Zagreb and once to Metković Jambo.

He has played in European competitions EHF City Cup, EHF Cup Winners' Cup and EHF Cup throughout his career.

He was team captain of Zamet from 2003 to 2017 when he retired from handball alongside his long standing teammate Mateo Hrvatin.[5] He is marked for being the longest serving player in Zamet's history playing 21 full years for the club.

Honours

RK Kvarner

RK Zamet

References

  1. ↑ "Milan Uzelac". rk-zamet.hr (in Croatian).
  2. ↑ "Kvarner history". kvarner.com.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2016-03-23.
  3. ↑ "50 years of Handball Club Pećine". radio.hrt.hr (in Croatian).
  4. ↑ "Sports laws". zakon.hr (in Croatian).
  5. ↑ "Egzodus u "Zametu": Uzelac i Hrvatin završavaju karijeru, Đurica i Lučin odlaze". novilist.hr (in Croatian).
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