Gheorghe Gruia

Gheorghe Gruia

Gheorghe Gruia
Player information
Full name	Gheorghe Gruia Marinescu
birthday	October 2, 1940
place of birth	Bucharest , Romania
citizenship	romanian mexican
date of death	December 9, 2015 (75 years old)
Place of death	Mexico City , Mexico
height	1.92 m
Playing position	Backcourt player right
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Jersey number	10
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1961-1973	Steaua Bucharest
National team
Debut on	1962
	Games (goals)
Romania	126 (636)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1978-1980	Mexico
1981-1985	Universitario Chiapas
1986-1989	UNAM Pumas
1988-1991	Mexico
As of April 23, 2017 Medals National team Olympic games bronze  1972 Munich Handball World championships gold  1970 France Handball gold  1964 Czechoslovakia Handball bronze  1967 Sweden Handball International titles at club level European Champion Clubs' Cup (Champions League) gold 1967/68  Steaua Bucharest

Gheorghe Gruia Marinescu (born October 2, 1940 in Bucharest , † December 9, 2015 in Mexico City ) was a Romanian handball player who became world champion with the national team in 1964 and 1970 and won the bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games .

Life

Gheorghe Gruia triumphed with the Romanian national team at the 1964 and 1970 World Cup . In 1967 the back space right won third place at the World Cup. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the left-hander won the bronze medal and was top scorer with 37 goals. In total, Gruia played 126 international matches in which he scored 636 goals.

Gruia was active in the Romanian army club Steaua Bucharest , with which he won the Romanian championship and the 1968 European Cup . He developed jaundice in the 1960s . In 1978 he moved to Mexico City. He came at the invitation of the president's brother, worked there as a handball coach and made the sport known in Mexico.

In 1992 he was named the best player of all time by the International Handball Federation .

Gheorghe Gruia died on December 9, 2015 at the age of 75 in Mexico.

successes

society

Steaua Bucharest

• Romanian champions: 1963, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
• European Champion Clubs' Cup : 1968
• Finalist in the European Champions Cup: 1971

literature

• Horia Alexandrescu: Gruia, Mister Handbal . Vivaldi, Bucharest 2009, ISBN 978-973-150-033-1 , pp. 215 .

Web links

Commons : Gheorghe Gruia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gheorghe Gruia in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Gheorghe Gruia ( Memento from March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at megacceso.com (Romanian).
• Interview with Gheorghe Gruia (ro.)
• Georghe Gruia Marinescu, el Pelé del handball Deporte UNAM (Spanish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Handball World Mourns the Loss of Icon, Friend & Teacher ( Memento from July 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ History of the handball world championships
3. ↑ Statistics of the Olympic Games at www.dhb.de
4. ↑ www.frh.ro International match statistics of the Romanian handball association. Retrieved April 12, 2014 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
5. ↑ ^{a b} alinhuiu.ro: Gheorghe Gruia - tunarul din echipa de aur a handbalului romanesc ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 10, 2013
6. ↑ Stories about handball in Transylvania (XXI)
7. ↑ Gheorghe Gruia, "mîna de aur a handbalului românesc", a murit astăzi în Mexic, la vîrsta de 75 de ani. In: gsp.ro. Gazeta Sporturilor, December 9, 2015, accessed December 10, 2015 (Romanian).