Luka Karabatić

Luka Karabatić is a French professional handball player, born on 19 April 1988, who plays for Paris Saint-Germain and formerly played for the French national team. He is the younger brother of Nikola Karabatić and comes from a handball family: his father Branko, originally from Trogir in Croatia, was a Yugoslav goalkeeper. Born in France to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother, he played tennis as a child and began handball in 2007 with the Montpellier youth team as a center back, joining the senior side in 2009. In 2012 he was arrested and indicted in a match-fixing investigation and was released by Montpellier, after which he moved to Pays d'Aix. He joined PSG in 2015, won the French championship every year from 2016 to 2025 and was twice the best defender of the EHF Champions League. With France he won the 2015 World Championship and a bronze medal at the 2025 World Championship, and he retired from the national team in February 2025.