Arpad Šterbik

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Arpad Šterbik
Arpad Šterbik (2010)

Arpad Šterbik at the European Handball Championship 2010

Player information
Nickname "Serbian Bear"
birthday November 20, 1979
place of birth Senta , YugoslaviaYugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia 
citizenship SpainSpain Spanish
height 2.00 m
Playing position goalkeeper
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-2001 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia RK Jugović
2001-2004 HungaryHungary KC Veszprém
2004-2011 SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
2011–2012 SpainSpain BM Atlético de Madrid
2012-2014 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
2014-2018 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia RK Vardar Skopje
2018-2020 HungaryHungary KC Veszprém
National team
  Games (goals)
Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia Spain
Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro 
SerbiaSerbia 
SpainSpain  		120 (0)


78 (0)

Status: August 15, 2020

Arpad Šterbik ( Serbian - Cyrillic Арпад Штербик , Hungarian Árpád Sterbik , Spanish Arpad Sterbik Capar ; born November 20, 1979 in Senta , SR Serbia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Spanish handball player ( goalkeeper ) of Hungarian origin. He had also previously held Yugoslav, Serbian, and Hungarian citizenships.

Šterbik began playing handball with RK Jugović in Kać ( Novi Sad ) in the Yugoslav League. There he finally won the EHF Challenge Cup in 2001 before moving to the Hungarian series champion KC Veszprém for the following season . In his three years there, he became a champion and twice a cup winner.

In 2004 he joined BM Ciudad Real in Spain, where he won all national titles several times, including four times the Spanish championship. Only once less did he and the team win the European crown in the EHF Champions League . In two other finals it was lost to his future club FC Barcelona . Šterbik was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2005. He earned € 310,000 net at Ciudad Real, making him one of the top earners in handball. In 2011 he took part in the team's move to Madrid and as BM Atlético de Madrid the final of the Champions League was reached again, but it was lost to THW Kiel . When he won the Spanish Cup in March 2012, however, he was unable to play due to an injury.

In the summer of 2012, Šterbik moved to league rivals FC Barcelona . He won two more championships with the Catalans and the King's Cup in 2014 . After the 2013/14 season, his contract with Barcelona, ​​which originally ran until 2017, was terminated.

He then signed a contract with the North Macedonian club RK Vardar Skopje . With Vardar he won the national double in all four seasons and, surprisingly, the EHF Champions League in 2017.In the same year, the team won the title in the SEHA league and defended it the following year. In Skopje he played again with Alex Dujshebaev , national team colleague and son of his former coach at Ciudad Real .

In summer 2018 Šterbik returned to Veszprém and picked up where he left off. Only with winning the Hungarian championship and then with the entry into the final of the EHF Champions League 2018/19 . In the semifinals he had to retire injured and could only intervene in the lost final in the second half. After the 2019/20 season, Šterbik ended his career and took over goalkeeping training at Veszprém.

Arpad Šterbik has played 120 international matches for the national teams of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Serbia and Montenegro as well as Serbia . At the World Championships in 1999 and 2001 he won the bronze medal with Yugoslavia .

In January 2008, Šterbik received Spanish citizenship.

With the Spanish national team , he again won bronze at the 2011 World Cup . Two years later he became world champion with the team . At the 2016 European Championships , he won silver after losing to the German team in the final . At the European Championship 2018 he was nominated for the semi-final against France by Jordi Ribera for the injured Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas and finally became European champion with the Spanish selection. At the 2019 World Cup in Germany, he was called to the main round after Rodrigo Corrales was injured and in the end he finished 7th.

successes

Web links

Commons : Arpad Šterbik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Eggers: Handball World Cup: The fast bear. In: tagesspiegel.de. Tagesspiegel, January 16, 2011, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Estadísticas de jugadores / as de la selección , accessed on August 15, 2020
  3. ↑ XXII Men's Handball World Championship 2011 - Spain Team Roster. (PDF) In: ihf.info. International Handball Federation , accessed on June 3, 2019 (English, Spanish name form in the team list for the 2011 World Cup).
  4. ↑ Ronald Tenbusch: Handball EM: Spain's goalkeeper has already played for four nations. In: welt.de. Die Welt , January 16, 2016, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  5. ^ Pfadi Winterthur fights against depression. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 23, 2001, accessed on April 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ IHF World Handball Player of the Year. (PDF) In: ihf.info. International Handball Federation , accessed June 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Eric Eggers: The time of great begging is over. (No longer available online.) In: ksta.de. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, July 30, 2007, archived from the original on August 23, 2007 ; accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Triple perfect: Kiel wins the Champions League! In: kicker.de. Olympia-Verlag, May 27, 2012, accessed on April 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ cie: Sterbik: Operation "more complicated than expected". In: handball-world.news. February 28, 2012, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  10. ^ Chs: Sterbik signs a pension contract in Barcelona. In: handball-world.news. August 31, 2012, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  11. ↑ chs: Barcelona changes in goal. In: handball-world.news. June 2, 2014, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Соопштенија за јавност ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Last second drama! Skopje wins the CL title. In: sport.de. June 4, 2017, Retrieved April 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Amina Idrizi: Vardar shift focus to Kiel after winning SEHA title. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed April 20, 2019 .
  15. ↑ ehfTV: Save and goal - Great assist from Vardar's Sterbik to Dujshebaev on YouTube , June 3, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2019.
  16. ↑ Arpad Sterbik next two years in Veszprem! In: handball-planet.com. Handball Planet, November 3, 2017, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  17. ↑ chs: Veszprem Hungarian champion for the 26th time. In: handball-world.news. May 27, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Telekom Veszprem and Vardar Skopje fight for Europe's handball crown. In: sport.sky.de. Sky Deutschland , June 2, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 .
  19. ↑ "I can only say: Thank you, handball" - Arpad Sterbik about the end of his career. In: handball-world.news. Sky Deutschland , April 8, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Concedida la española nacionalidad a Sterbik y Rutenka. In: Marca.com. January 25, 2008, Retrieved June 3, 2019 (Spanish).
  21. ↑ Handball World Cup: Spain snatches Sweden away bronze. In: rp-online.de. Rheinische Post, January 30, 2011, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Handball World Cup 2013: Spain outclassed Denmark. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. Augsburger Allgemeine, January 28, 2013, accessed June 3, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Handball EM: Germany wins final against Spain. In: sport1.de. Sport1 , February 1, 2016, accessed June 3, 2019 .
  24. ↑ sbl: European Handball Championship 2018: Spain first Handball European Championship against Sweden. In: rp-online.de. Rheinische Post, January 29, 2018, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  25. ↑ chs: After an accident with LED boards - Spain with an additional change for the main round. In: handball-world.news. January 19, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 .
World handball player of the year
Women

Svetlana Dašić-Kitić  (1988) | Kim Hyun-mee  (1989) | Jasna Kolar-Merdan  (1990) | Mia Hermansson-Högdahl  (1994) | Erzsébet Kocsis  (1995) | Lim O-kyeong  (1996) | Anja Andersen  (1997) | Trine Haltvik  (1998) | Ausra Fridrikas  (1999) | Bojana Radulovics  (2000) | Cecilie Leganger  (2001) | Zhai Chao  (2002) | Bojana Radulovics  (2003) | Anita Kulcsár  (2004) | Anita Görbicz  (2005) | Nadine Krause  (2006) | Gro Hammerseng-Edin  (2007) | Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren  (2008) | Allison Pineau  (2009) | Cristina Neagu  (2010) | Heidi Løke  (2011) | Alexandra do Nascimento  (2012) | Andrea Lekić  (2013) | Eduarda Amorim  (2014) | Cristina Neagu  (2015) | Cristina Neagu  (2016) | Cristina Neagu  (2018) | Stine Bredal Oftedal  (2019)

Men

Veselin Vujović  (1988) | Kang Jae-won  (1989) | Magnus Wislander  (1990) | Talant Dujshebaev  (1994) | Jackson Richardson  (1995) | Talant Dujshebaev  (1996) | Stéphane Stoecklin  (1997) | Daniel Stephan  (1998) | Rafael Guijosa  (1999) | Dragan Škrbić  (2000) | Yoon Kyung-shin  (2001) | Bertrand Gille  (2002) | Ivano Balić  (2003) | Henning Fritz  (2004) | Arpad Šterbik  (2005) | Ivano Balić  (2006) | Nikola Karabatić  (2007) | Thierry Omeyer  (2008) | Sławomir Szmal  (2009) | Filip Jícha  (2010) | Mikkel Hansen  (2011) | Daniel Narcisse  (2012) | Domagoj Duvnjak  (2013) | Nikola Karabatić  (2014) | Mikkel Hansen  (2015) | Nikola Karabatić  (2016) | Mikkel Hansen  (2018) | Niklas Landin Jacobsen  (2019)

Best player of all time: Gheorghe Gruia (1992), Ivano Balić and Svetlana Dašić-Kitić (2010)
EHF Player of the Month and EHF Player of the Year
2016
year

No award

month

Andreas Wolff  (January) | Rasmus Lauge Schmidt  (February) | Dean Bombač  (March) | Dominik Klein  (April) | Aron Pálmarsson  (May) | Dejan Manaskov  (June) | Daniel Dujshebaev  (July / August) | Uwe Gensheimer  (September) | Blaž Janc  (October) | Andy Schmid  (November) | Kiril Lazarov  (December)

2017
year

Luka Cindrić

month

Sander Sagosen  (January) | Julen Aguinagalde  (February) | Momir Ilić  (March) | Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas  (April) | Sander Sagosen  (May) | Luka Cindrić  (June) | Ludvig Hallbäck  (July / August) | Máté Lékai  (September) | Arpad Šterbik  (October) | Arpad Šterbik  (November / December)

2018
year

Casper Ulrich Mortensen

month

Ondřej Zdráhala  (January) | Andy Schmid  (February) | Tibor Ivanišević  (March) | Nedim Remili  (April) | Diego Simonet  (May) | Nikola Bilyk  (June) | Ludvig Hallbäck  (July / August) | Alex Dujshebaev  (September) | Sander Sagosen  (October) | Casper Ulrich Mortensen  (November) | Andy Schmid  (December)

2019
year

Pending

month

Mikkel Hansen  (January) | Barys Puchouski  (February) | Romain Lagarde  (March) | Luka Cindrić  (April) | Niklas Landin  (May) | Dainis Krištopāns  (June) | Kristoffer Henriksen  (July / August)

personal data
SURNAME Šterbik, Arpad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sterbik, Árpád (Hungarian form of name); Штербик, Арпад
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish handball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Senta , SR Serbia , SFR Yugoslavia