Eric Gull

Eric Gull

Player information
birthday	August 28, 1973
place of birth	Buenos Aires , Argentina
citizenship	Argentinian, Swiss
height	2.04 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1997	AACF Quilmes AC
1997-1998	Santo André
1998-1999	LUGI HF
1999-2000	Sao Caetano
2000-2001	Ademar León
2001–1 / 2003	SC Sélestat handball
1 / 2003–6 / 2003	Espérance Sportive de Tunis
6 / 2003-2004	Medvedi Chekhov
2004-2007	BM Valladolid
2007-2008	FC Barcelona
2008-2009	al-Sadd Sports Club
2009-2010	BM Ciudad Real
2010–2012	AACF Quilmes
National team
	Games (goals)
Argentina	137 (349)
As of April 18, 2020

Eric Gull (born August 28, 1973 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is a former Argentine-Swiss handball player .

Gull, who last played for the Argentine AACF Quilmes and previously played for the Argentine national team, was mostly used in the right backcourt .

Eric Gull started playing handball in his home country at AACF Quilmes. In 1997 he embarked on a true odyssey through the whole world, restless and changing the club almost every year:

First he went to Brazil to Santo André, in 1998 he went straight to LUGI HF in Sweden, 1999 to São Caetano back to Brazil - where he became Brazilian champion - in 2000 to Ademar León in Spain - where he won the Spanish championship - in 2001 to SC Sélestat handball to France - where he stayed for a full year and a half and even became the top scorer in the French league - at the beginning of 2003 for six months to Espérance Sportive de Tunis in Tunisia and in the summer of 2003 to Medvedi Chekhov in Russia, where he became Russian champion. In summer 2004 he was stranded with BM Valladolid . Here he finally found peace and stayed for three full years, winning the Copa del Rey de Balonmano in 2005 and 2006, becoming top scorer of the Spanish league ASOBAL in the 2005/06 season and advancing to the semifinals of the EHF Champions League with Valladolid in 2007 , where however, the SG Flensburg-Handewitt failed. In 2007, FC Barcelona signed Gull. During the 2008-09 season, Gull left Barcelona. Gull then played for al-Sadd Sport Club in Qatar, with which he won the championship in 2009. In summer 2009 Gull left al-Sadd and signed a contract with BM Ciudad Real . With Ciudad Real he won the Spanish championship in 2010. He then returned to his homeland for the AACF Quilmes. He ended his career there in 2012.

Eric Gull made 137 international appearances for the Argentine national team . At the men's handball world championship in 2003 he became internationally known when he and his team beat the eventual world champions Croatia and Russia won a draw. After a dispute with his national coach, he left the national team in 2006 and did not take part in the 2007 men's handball world championship in Germany. As the son of a Swiss who emigrated to Argentina, Gull also has a Swiss passport; A run-up for the Swiss men's national handball team was discussed several times, but Gull always refused. A final approximation with regard to the European handball championship in Norway in 2008 became superfluous with the non-qualification of the Swiss men's national handball team.

Web links

• Eric Gull in the database of the European Handball Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presencias y Goleo - Selecciones Adultas Femenina y Masculina. handballargentina.org, July 18, 2019, accessed April 18, 2020 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: opponent data Al Sadd Doha
3. ↑ handball-world.com: Barcelona and Ciudad Real with new additions to half right
4. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: opponents team BM Ciudad Real (ESP) 2010/2011 season , accessed on May 8, 2017
5. ↑ valonmano.com: Eric Gull, la zurda que marcó la historia del handball argentino , accessed on May 8, 2017