Vasile Stîngă
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| Born |
21 January 1957 (age 59) Hunedoara, Romania[1] | ||||||||||||
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Handball | ||||||||||||
| Club |
Steaua Bucharest (1977–1989) Alzira Avidesa (1989–1992)[2] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vasile Stîngă (also Stanga, born 21 January 1957) is a Romanian handball coach and former player. He played 216 matches for Romania national handball team, scoring 1414 goals[3] 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) in Romania, winning with them 11 national titles,[4] 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 the EHF Challenge Cup in 2006 as a coach.
Stîngă is married to the former basketball player Ecaterina Stîngă, they have a son Andrei and daughter Corina.[4]
References
- ↑ Vasile Stîngă. sports-reference.com
- 1 2 3 Vasile Stanga. Romanian Olympic Committee
- ↑ "Performerii de altadata ai handbalului, premiati" (in Romanian). bihon.ro. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- 1 2 In numele iubirii! Legendarul handbalist Vasile Stanga, iertat de sotie pentru cele TREI amante. cancan.ro (24 November 2013)