Bruno Bezerra de Menezes Souza

Bruno Souza

Bruno Souza (2007)
Player information
Full name	Bruno Bezerra de Menezes Souza
birthday	June 27, 1977
place of birth	Niterói , Brazil
citizenship	Brazilian
height	1.91 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Niterói rugby
0000-0000	Vasco da Gama
0000-1999	Metodista São Bernardo
1999-2006	Fresh on Göppingen
2006-2008	HSV Hamburg
2008-2009	BM Alcobendas
2009-2010	HBC Nantes
4 / 2011–2011	HBC Nantes
National team
	Games (goals)
Brazil	196 (623)
As of December 23, 2013

Bruno Bezerra de Menezes Souza (born June 27, 1977 in Niterói ) is a former Brazilian handball player.

Career

Souza played in the handball Bundesliga and was under contract with Frisch Auf Göppingen and HSV Hamburg . With HSV he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2007 . In the summer of 2008 he moved to the Spanish newly promoted BM Alcobendas . When Alcobendas had financial problems during the 2008/09 season, Souza left the club. He then signed a contract with the French club HBC Nantes. In the summer of 2010 Souza first ended his career there; from April 2011 to the end of the season he was back on the Nantes squad.

With the Brazilian national team , he won the 2007 Pan American Games . Bruno Souza scored nine goals in the final against Argentina. He took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and scored 28 goals in 6 games. He also took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and scored 16 goals in 5 games.

Web links

• Bruno Souza in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Bruno Bezerra de Menezes Souza in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Perfil Bruno Souza
2. ↑ Bild.de: Ex-Star Bruno Souza
3. ↑ handball-world.news: Bruno Souza with comeback for Nantes , accessed on April 3, 2018
4. ↑ handball-world.news: Ekdahl du Rietz to Nantes? , accessed April 3, 2018