Vasile Stîngă

Vasile Stîngă
Personal information
Born	21 January 1957 (1957-01-21) (age 68) Hunedoara, Romania[1]
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Youth career
Team
	Clubul Sportiv Școlar Constructorul
Senior clubs
Years	Team
0000–1977	Metalul Hunedoara
1977–1989	Steaua Bucharest
1989–1992	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
Energia Târgu Jiu	2008–?
Medal record Representing  Romania Olympic Games 1980 Moscow Team 1984 Los Angeles Team World University Games[4] 1981 France Team 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]

See also

• List of handballers with 1000 or more international goals

References

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