Vasile Stîngă

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Vasile Stîngă
Vasile Stinga.jpg
Personal information
Born 21 January 1957 (1957-01-21) (age 67)
Hunedoara, Romania [1]
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Youth career
Team
Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg Clubul Sportiv Școlar Constructorul
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
0000–1977
Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg Metalul Hunedoara
1977–1989
Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg Steaua Bucharest
1989–1992
Flag of Spain.svg Alzira Avidesa [2]
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania (Youth) 16 (113)
Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania (Junior) 14 (22)
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania (B) 2 (6)
1974–?
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania (A) 269 (1414)
Total: [3] 301 (1555)
Teams managed
2004–2006
2008–2008
2008–?
Medal record
Representing Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1980 Moscow Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1984 Los Angeles Team
World University Games [4]
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1981 France Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1985 West Germany Team

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]

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. Vasile Stîngă. sports-reference.com
  2. 1 2 3 Vasile Stanga. Romanian Olympic Committee
  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. "The History of Handball in FISU". International University Sports Federation . Archived from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  5. 1 2 In numele iubirii! Legendarul handbalist Vasile Stanga, iertat de sotie pentru cele TREI amante. cancan.ro (24 November 2013)