Diego Modrušan
{{Short description|Croatian handball player (born 1980)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox handball biography
| name = Diego Modrušan
| caption =
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|9|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = Pula, SR Croatia,
SFR Yugoslavia
| height = 1.97 m
| position = Goalkeeper
| currentclub =
| clubnumber =
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 =
| years1 = 2000–2002
| clubs1 = PPD Zagreb
| years2 = 2002–2003
| clubs2 = Pallamano Trieste
| years3 = 2004
| clubs3 = Ascoli
| years4 = 2004–2007
| clubs4 = Pallamano Trieste
| years5 = 2007–2008
| clubs5 = Casarano
| years6 = 2008–2009
| clubs6 = Prato
| years7 = 2009
| clubs7 = Emmeti
| years8 = 2009–2012
| clubs8 = Pallamano Trieste
| years9 = 2012–2014
| clubs9 = Umag
| years10 = 2014-2016
| clubs10 = Novigrad
| years11 = 2016–2020
| clubs11 = Pallamano Trieste
| years12 = 2022-
| clubs12 = Umag
| nationalteam1 = Croatia
| nationalcaps1 =
| nationalgoals1 =
| show-medals = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's handball}}
{{MedalCountry|{{hb|CRO}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}
{{MedalGold|2001 Tunis|Team}}
}}
Diego Modrušan (born 2 September 1980) is a Croatian professional handball player. He won two Croatian Championships with Zagreb and the Italian Serie A with Handball Casarano. Modrušan play as a goalkeeper.
Career
He started playing handball at age thirteen. In 2000 he signed with RK Zagreb, where he won two consecutive titles and made his debut in the EHF Champions League. In 2002 he moved to Pallamano Trieste. In the second part of the 2003–2004 season he passed on loan to Ascoli, with which he managed to avoid relegation. On his return to Trieste{{Cite web |url=https://ricerca.gelocal.it/ilpiccolo/archivio/ilpiccolo/2004/09/21/NZ_29_MANO.html?ref=search |title=Il quasi-italiano Modrusan potrà giocare con Trieste nel posto liberato da Ivanjia |access-date=21 September 2004}} he won the only Handball Trophy in the history of the club, and reached the finale Scudetto (finals). In 2007 came the call of Italian champion Casarano, which made another important acquisition with Modrušan after Vito Fovio the year before. Modrušan won the Italian 2007/2008 Serie A with Casarano, as well as the Italian cup.
In the following season, he moved to Prato.{{cite web |url=https://www.pallamanoitalia.it/le-ultime-dal-mercato-160/ |title=Le ultime dal mercato |access-date=28 May 2008}} Modrušan didn't end the season with Prato, because during the same season he moved to Emmeti.{{cite web |url=https://www.pallamanoitalia.it/dopo-brzic-anche-modrusan-sceglie-il-mestrino-5859/ |title=Dopo Brzic, anche Modrusan sceglie Mestrino |access-date=31 January 2009}} At the beginning of the 2009–2010 season he returned to Trieste and stayed there for three seasons. In 2012 he returned to Croatia after ten years, joining Umag.{{cite web |url=https://ricerca.gelocal.it/ilpiccolo/archivio/ilpiccolo/2012/07/29/NZ_69_01.html?ref=search |title=Pallamano Trieste: addio a Modrusan |access-date=29 July 2012}} In 2016 he returned for the third and last time to Trieste.{{cite web |url=https://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/sport/2016/02/03/news/modrusan-torna-a-casa-dara-una-mano-a-postogna-1.12893476?ref=search |title=Modrusan torna a Casa: darà una mano a Postogna |access-date=4 February 2016}}
He was in the Croatian national team that won the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis. In 2008 he was called up by the Italian university team to compete in the world championship held in Oderzo and Meolo.{{cite web |url=http://www.asterisconet.it/notizia/6296/mondiale-pallamano-tre-atlete-veronesi-covocate-in-azzurro.html |title=Mondiale pallamano, tre atlete veronesi convocate in azzurro |access-date=18 June 2008}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{European Handball Federation|509810|Diego Modrusan}}
{{Croatia squad 2001 Mediterranean Games (men's handball)}}
{{RK Zamet 1999-00 squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Modrusan, Diego}}
Category:Sportspeople from Pula
Category:Croatian male handball players
Category:Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia
Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in handball