Vasile Stîngă

Vasile Stîngă
Personal information
Born 21 January 1957 (1957-01-21) (age 61)
Hunedoara, Romania[1]
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
Sport Handball
Club Steaua Bucharest (1977–1989)
Alzira Avidesa (1989–1992)[2]
Medal record
Representing  Romania
Olympic Games
1980 Moscow Team
1984 Los Angeles Team
World University Games[3]
1981 FranceTeam
1985 West GermanyTeam

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[4] 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 a 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 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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Vasile Stîngă. sports-reference.com
  2. 1 2 3 Vasile Stanga. Romanian Olympic Committee
  3. ↑ "The History of Handball in FISU". International University Sports Federation. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Performerii de altadata ai handbalului, premiati" (in Romanian). bihon.ro. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  5. 1 2 In numele iubirii! Legendarul handbalist Vasile Stanga, iertat de sotie pentru cele TREI amante. cancan.ro (24 November 2013)


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