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Krešimir Kozina

Croatian handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ18022494 ↗
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Krešimir Kozina (born 25 June 1990) is a Croatian handball player for Frisch Auf Göppingen and the Croatian national team.

Club career

Kozina started his youth career in RK Matulji before establishing himself in Zamet the premier handball club of Rijeka.

After four seasons he moved to NEXE. While there he debuted in his first European competition EHF Cup. In 2013 he moved to Austrian Alpla HC Hard. With the club he started winning his first trophies as a club player.

In 2015 Kozina turned down Croatian powerhouse Zagreb and transferred to SG Flensburg-Handewitt where he spent one season.

On 29 May 2016 Kozina signed for Füchse Berlin. On 8 September Kozina won the IHF Super Globe with the club.

On 8 December Kozina announced that he signed with Frisch Auf Göppingen and that he would be moving in the summer of 2017.

Kozina playerd for the Bundesliga Stars team on 2 February 2018 against Germany scoring 4 goals for a win of 43:39.

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The public source identifies “Krešimir Kozina” as croatian handball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Krešimir, Kozina and Croatian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2013, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-06-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Krešimir, Kozina and Croatian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Krešimir Kozina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.