Darko Horvat (footballer)

Darko Horvat
Personal information
Date of birth	19 May 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth	Krapina, Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Zagorec Krapina
Senior career*
Years	Team
1994–1997	Inker Zaprešić
1997–1999	Solin
1999–2001	Rijeka
2001–2003	Istra Pula
2003–2005	Inter Zaprešić
2005–2006	Dynamo Dresden
2007–2013	Hallescher FC
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Darko Horvat (born 19 May 1973) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.^[1]

Club career

After a journeyman career in Croatia, Horvat first came to Germany in January 2005, when he left Inter Zaprešić to sign for Dynamo Dresden, following former team-mate Klemen Lavric who had made the same move six months earlier. He found himself in a three-way battle for the position of goalkeeper with Oliver Herber and his compatriot Ignjac Kresic, and by the second half of the 2005–06 season he appeared to have made the role his own. However, a cruciate ligament injury suffered in a match against Erzgebirge Aue in April 2006 ruled him out, and forced him to retire from the game at the end of the season.

Horvat recovered, though, and in July 2007 he returned to football, when former Dynamo coach Sven Köhler signed him for Hallescher FC of the NOFV-Oberliga Süd. In his first season in Halle, the club earned promotion to the Regionalliga Nord, and in 2011–12 they won the title and with it promotion to the 3. Liga. During this season, Horvat was ever-present, conceding just 15 goals and keeping 24 clean sheets. He retired at the end of the 2012–13 season.

References

^ "Darko Horvat". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 12 July 2012.

External links

Darko Horvat at WorldFootball.net
Darko Horvat at kicker (in German)
Darko Horvat at Fussballdaten.de (in German)

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[1] "Darko Horvat". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 12 July 2012.

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