Luc Abalo

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Luc Abalo
Luc Abalo

Luc Abalo (2010)

Player information
Nickname "Lucio"
birthday September 6, 1984
place of birth Ivry-sur-Seine , France
citizenship FrenchmanFrenchman French
height 1.82 m
Playing position Right winger
Throwing hand Left
Club information
society Elverum Håndball
Jersey number 19th
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1998-2008 FranceFrance US Ivry HB
2008-2011 SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
2011–2012 SpainSpain BM Atlético Madrid
2012-2020 FranceFrance Paris Saint-Germain
2020– NorwayNorway Elverum Håndball
National team
Debut on June 25, 2005
against TurkeyTurkey Turkey
  Games (goals)
FranceFrance France 259 (797)

As of August 22, 2020

Luc Abalo (born September 6, 1984 in Ivry-sur-Seine , France ) is a French handball player of Togolese descent. He is 1.82 m tall, weighs 80 kg and plays on the right winger for the Norwegian club Elverum Håndball and for the French national handball team . Abalo is an officer of the French National Order of Merit .

Career

Luc Abalo at a game of the French national team

Since his youth Abalo played in his hometown with US Ivry HB , where he got his first professional contract in 2005. In 2005/06 his club was fourth in the 1st French division and reached the cup final, in 2006/07 they even won the French championship. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 Luc Abalo was voted the best right winger in the French 1st division. In 2008 - and not as initially planned in 2007 - he moved to the Spanish top club BM Ciudad Real . With Ciudad Real he won the Spanish championship and the EHF Champions League in 2009 . In 2010 another Spanish championship was added. 2011 was the least successful season for him since moving to Ciudad Real. He and his team only won the Spanish Cup. After the 2010/11 season he was also associated with the THW Kiel after Ciudad Real announced that they wanted to move to Madrid for financial reasons. He remained loyal to the club and moved with the entire club BM Ciudad Real to BM Atlético Madrid . In the summer of 2012 he signed a contract with the French first division club Paris Saint-Germain . With Paris he won the championship in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 and the French Cup in 2014, 2015 and 2018. For the 2020/21 season, Abalo moved to the Norwegian first division club Elverum Håndball .

Luc Abalo has so far played 259 international matches for the French national handball team and has won several Olympic, world and European championships.

successes

French national team

society

Web links

Commons : Luc Abalo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.experts-handball.com Profile Abalo ( memento from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on September 18, 2015
  2. ↑ livecache.sportresult.com: France , accessed January 15, 2020
  3. ↑ on legiondhonneur.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013 and Cérémonie de remise de décorations aux médaillés Olympiques de Londres ( Memento of March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on elysee.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013
  4. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Jumping miracle to the THW? , accessed April 29, 2019
  5. ↑ Ciudad Real now Atletico Madrid
  6. ↑ Finally back in France: Abalo signs in Paris
  7. ↑ handball-world.news: Transfer surprise: Luc Abalo is moving to Norway , accessed on May 28, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Abalo, Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French handball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivry-sur-Seine , France