He also played for AS Monaco reaching the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, Verona, Sporting, Galatasaray, Standard Liège, before ending his career at Omonia with Cypriot Cup title.
He is the father of a footballer Dino Špehar who just like him started his professional career at NK Osijek, at the same time that Robert was in office as club's president.
[1] Most recently he coached Croatian lower-league side NK Višnjevac with whom he achieved promotion to Treća HNL division East.
The new season already started when he finally completed transfer move to AS Monaco and joined the company of a generation led by Fabien Barthez, Willy Sagnol, Ludovic Giuly, Victor Ikpeba, Henry and Trezeguet.
After initial four games of the season, Monaco leadership and manager Jean Tigana estimated that the club will not be able to drag out complete season with two young strikers, Henry and Trezeguet, who were 19 years old and a few years older Victor Ikpeba, so they completed transfer of Belgian side Club Brugge top scorer Robert Špehar together with another striker from Division 1 club FC Nantes, Chadian Japhet N'Doram who came to Monaco as first division top scorer runner-up the season before.
[2] The greatest moment in Špehar career happened in the semi-final second leg of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League on 15 April 1998, a home match against Juventus.
[5] Špehar made his debut for Croatia in a July 1992 friendly match away against Australia, coming on as a 78th-minute substitute for Goran Vučević, and earned a total of eight caps, scoring no goals.
With Špehar as president, club confirmed Gordan Matković, a former mayor of city of Osijek from HSP party as the new general director.
At the expense of his fearless will to help NK Osijek he left a comfortable life and a lucrative management job accepting the offered position of presidency from the club.
At first, his name was mentioned in the context of the sports director, but after the repeated refusal of presidency from local city businessmen and sponsors, this difficult assignment was eventually offered to Špehar.
He did not hesitate too much to accept the diligent task as three generations of Špehar family have already been included in NK Osijek for more than fifty years without interruption at the time being.
Gathering money funds for the club proper functioning was not a simple assignment, but Špehar did not allow himself to be discouraged by knocking on every door in the city asking for help from anyone who likes Osijek.
The club financial situation at the moment of takeover was briefly consolidated due to previous Domagoj Vida transfer to Bayer Leverkusen worth HRK17,000,000.
All annual active debts to players, coaches, working community and suppliers were settled with some money left for basic club maintenance.
Due to over repeated persisting of NK Osijek football academy director Miroslav Žitnjak for a quiet some time and a first team coach Branko Karačić demanded for such a player to be alongside first team football players, it was an act of proper time decision to offer his son, Dino, a professional contract.
The feeling for Špehar was magnificent, as a father, signing a contract with his son, who was well on its way to become the star of NK Osijek, the player on which the club will build the future and ultimately with no shame or discomfort make a profit.
Špehar saw in Dino a key player with whom he would build the future of NK Osijek for a period of next two to three years and was not ready to accept his departure from Gradski vrt stadium.
Špehar feeling good on the field, on the bench, in training practice and during the match decided to patiently wait for that kind of opportunity, from Prva HNL clubs.