Vasile Stîngă

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

Vasile Stîngă (also Stanga, born 21 January 1957) is a

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

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]

See also

References

  1. ^ Vasile Stîngă. sports-reference.com
  2. ^
    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. ^ a b In numele iubirii! Legendarul handbalist Vasile Stanga, iertat de sotie pentru cele TREI amante. cancan.ro (24 November 2013)