'Domagoj is still waiting for his first gold medal with the national team. So far his collection includes three silver medals (two from EC and one from the WC) and three bronze medals (EC and WC and the Olympics). There are no problems at the club trophy level. Croatian (three times) and German (one time) champion, three Croatian and one German Cup. He won the Champions league with Hamburg in 2013. In 11 years, the time he has spent playing handball professionally, he did not change that many clubs. He only played for Đakovo, Zagreb, Hamburg and Kiel, starting from this season.
At 26 years of age, he collected a large number of individual awards.
He only had two managers at the senior national team – Lino Červar, who included him in the national team for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and Slavko Goluža, who has constructed his game around the Đakovo native since 2011 when he took over the national team.
Furthermore, wrote Mrvec, Duvnjak wants to play in his third Olympics at Rio in 2016. But, in order to get there, it would be good to finish in the top seven in the World Championship. The bracket is such that Croatia should achieve this. In a group with Austria, Tunisia, Iran, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina they should come out on top, and in the round of 16 our possible opponents should then be Belarus or Brazil. But you first got to walk the walk, before you can talk the talk...'