Andreea Popa

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Andreea Popa
Personal information
Full name Andreea Cristina Popa
Born (2000-06-03) 3 June 2000 (age 23)
Bucharest, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current club Minaur Baia Mare
Number 70
Youth career
YearsTeam
0000–2016
CSȘ 2 București
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2016–2017
Dinamo București
2017–2019
Rapid București
2019–
Minaur Baia Mare
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–
Romania 8 (6)

Andreea Cristina Popa (born 3 June 2000) is a Romanian handballer for Minaur Baia Mare and the Romanian national team. [1]

Contents

She represented Romania at the 2020 European Women's Handball Championship. [2] [3]

As a junior, she finished fifth in the 2019 Junior European Championship.

International honours

Individual awards

Personal life

Popa's parents are both physical education teachers. She started playing handball under the coaching guidance of her mother Dorina Popa. [4]

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References

  1. "EHF profile". European Handball Federation . Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  2. "CAMPIONATUL EUROPEAN DE HANDBAL FEMININ. S-a stabilit lotul pentru Euro 2020 " Care sunt cele patru jucătoare care rămân acasă". Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 29 November 2020.
  3. "2020 European Women's Handball Championship Roster" (PDF). livecache.sportresult.com. 3 December 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  4. Andreea Popa. Profil de campion