Ion Popescu (handball player)
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birthday | November 1941 |
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Playing position | Left winger |
Throwing hand | right |
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society | Career ended |
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from ... to | society |
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87 (?) |
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from ... to | society |
1974– |
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1978-1979 |
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1982-1983 |
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Ion Popescu (born November 1941 ) is a former Romanian handball player and coach who was twice world champion as a player and almost took part in the 1976 Olympics as a coach .
Life
Ion Popescu played in Romania with Teleajen Ploieşti and Steaua Bucharest , with whom he won the European Cup in 1968 . With the Romanian national team , for which he played 87 international matches, the left winger took part in three handball world championships . In 1964 and 1970 he became world champion and won the bronze medal in 1967 .
After the end of his playing career in 1974 Popescu went to Tunisia , where he first coached the women's national team and later the men's national team, with which he qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . However, they did not participate in the Olympics because Tunisia joined the boycott of the African states after the start of the Games .
Popescu then did not return to Tunisia, but went to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he coached the upper league team of HTV Meißenheim in the 1978/79 season and the Bundesliga club TuS Hofweier in 1982/83 . From 1985 he worked in Neuss as a tennis teacher and from 2007 to 2011 as a sports teacher at the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium Neuss and at the secondary school in Grevenbroich 's Südstadt district .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Volker Koch: A world champion resigns. In: Rheinische Post . September 14, 2011, accessed March 14, 2016 .
- ↑ 50 years since Romania won World Men's Handball Championship. In: agerpres.ro. March 15, 2014, accessed March 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Când zeii handbalului erau români
- ↑ The history of Meissenheim handball. In: htv-meissenheim.de. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Popescu, Ion |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian handball player and handball coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 1941 |