István Varga (handball player)

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Istvan Varga
Player information
Nickname "Pista"
birthday September 7, 1943
place of birth Abony , Hungary
citizenship HungaryHungary Hungarian
date of death December 6, 2014
Place of death Debrecen , Hungary
height 1.90
Playing position Back left
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1955-1965 HungaryHungary Abonyi TSZ SK
1965-1973 HungaryHungary Honvéd Budapest
1973-1980 HungaryHungary Dózsa Debrecen
1980-1981 HungaryHungary Nádudvari SE
1981-1982 HungaryHungary Budapest Spartacus
1982-1983 GermanyGermany Hermannia Kassel
1983-1984 GermanyGermany SV Seulberg
1984-1986 GermanyGermany TuS Spenge
1987-1988 GermanyGermany TV Lenzinghausen
National team
Debut on 1966
against FranceFrance France
  Games (goals)
HungaryHungary Hungary 127 (882)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
1986-1987 GermanyGermany TuS Spenge
1988–? GermanyGermany TV Künsebeck
1998-1999 HungaryHungary Kiskőrös KKC

As of January 31, 2019

István Varga [ ʃtvaːn ˈvɒrɡɒ ] (born September 7, 1943 in Abony , † December 6, 2014 in Debrecen ) was a Hungarian handball player and coach. He played in the left backcourt and was known to convert free throws directly into the game.

Varga started playing handball in his hometown of Abony. After his military service he went to Honvéd Budapest in 1965 . With the army club he won the Hungarian championship and the cup four times . In the European Cup of National Champions 1965/66 he reached the final with Honvéd, but was defeated by the GDR representative SC DHfK Leipzig . He moved to Dózsa Debrecen in 1973 and was again champion (1975) and cup winner (1979). After stints at smaller clubs in Hungary, he was allowed to go to the West as a merited player to play handball with the approval of the Sports Minister.

In Germany, he was initially hired by two Hessian clubs from the league every year. After he went to TuS Spenge in 1984 , he was twice top scorer in the Regionalliga West . Then he took a seat in Spenge for a year in the coaching bench and in 1987 moved back to the field of the neighboring TV Lenzinghausen in the major league. In 1988 he ended his active career. He then coached a district league team from Halle (Westphalia) . In 1992 Varga went back to his homeland in Debrecen.

Varga was appointed to the Hungarian national team for the first time in 1966. He took part in two world championships and two Olympic games. After 127 games, 1978 was the end of the national team.

From 1994 to 2012 István Varga was a delegate for the European Handball Federation .

successes

  • Hungarian champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1975
  • Hungarian Cup Winner 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1979
  • Top scorer NB1 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979
  • Handball player of the year 1975 in Hungary

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heiko Kaiser: The master of the direct free throw. In: haller-kreisblatt.de. Haller Kreisblatt , March 25, 2016, accessed on December 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ NB1-es edzők - Kiskőrös - férfi. In: kézitörténelem.hu. Retrieved January 31, 2019 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ a b c jjr: István Varga passes away. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , December 15, 2014, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ulrich Finkemeyer: The man for the special litters. In: nw.de. Neue Westfälische , May 9, 2014, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Matthias Preuss: Peter the Great is coming . In: Kicker . July 2, 1984, ISSN  0023-1290 .
  6. ↑ Norbert Sahrhage: From handball village to handball city: On the history of the handball strongholds Spenge and Lenzinghausen (=  Herford research . Volume 22 ). 1st edition. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-682-8 , p. 59-60 .
  7. ↑ István Varga Biography and Olympic Results. Sports Reference LLC, accessed January 26, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Varga, Istvan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian handball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Abony
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2014
Place of death Debrecen