Vasile_Stinga

Vasile Stîngă

Vasile Stîngă

Romanian handball player

Vasile Stîngă (also Stanga, born 21 January 1957) is a Romanian handball coach and former player. He played 269 matches for Romania men's national handball team, scoring 1414 goals and winning bronze medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was the top scorer at the 1982 World Championship and in 1985 was selected for the World Handball Team.[2]

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At the club level Stângă played for Steaua Bucharest (1977–1989), winning with them 11 national titles and also reach an EHF Champions League final in 1989,[5] and for Alzira Avidesa (1989–1992) in Spain,[2] and was instrumental in the 1992 Copa del Rey win against Barcelona. He led Steaua to victory in the 2006 EHF Challenge Cup as a coach.

Stîngă is married to the former basketball player Ecaterina Stîngă, they have a son Andrei and a daughter Corina.[5]

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References

  1. [1]
    Vasile Stîngă. sports-reference.com
  2. [2]
    Vasile Stanga. Romanian Olympic Committee
  3. [3]
    Popescu, Constantin (2012). "Handbal în 7 Jucători: seniori (7/A), senoiri B (7/B), tineret (7/tin.), juniori (7/jun.) (nr. jocur/ nr.goluri) pînă la 15.01.2012) (ordine alfabetică)". PALMARESUL INDIVIDUAL ŞI AL ECHIPELOR NAŢIONALE ÎN JOCURILE INTERŢĂRI 1936-2012 (PDF) (in Romanian). Vol. II. Bucharest: Romanian Handball Federation. p. 35. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  4. [4]
    "The History of Handball in FISU". International University Sports Federation. Archived from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  5. [5]
    In numele iubirii! Legendarul handbalist Vasile Stanga, iertat de sotie pentru cele TREI amante. cancan.ro (24 November 2013)


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