Ion Popescu (handball player)

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Ion Popescu
Player information
birthday November 1941
place of birth
citizenship RomanianRomanian Romanian
Playing position Left winger
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-0000 Romania 1952Romania Teleajen Ploieşti
0000- Romania 1952Romania Steaua Bucharest
National team
  Games (goals)
Romania 1952Romania Romania 87 (?)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
1974– TunisiaTunisia Tunisia (women)
0000-1976 TunisiaTunisia Tunisia (men)
1978-1979 GermanyGermany HTV Meißenheim
1982-1983 GermanyGermany TuS Hofweier

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

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ 50 years since Romania won World Men's Handball Championship. In: agerpres.ro. March 15, 2014, accessed March 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Când zeii handbalului erau români
  4. ↑ The history of Meissenheim handball. In: htv-meissenheim.de. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Popescu, Ion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian handball player and handball coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 1941