Vladimir Rivero Hernández
Vladimir Rivero Hernández (born January 22, 1971 in Pinar del Río , † November 24, 2004 in Baranain near Pamplona ) was a well-known Cuban handball player who later also acquired Hungarian nationality.
In 1995 Rivero was still playing in Cuba. At the Yellow Cup in Winterthur, his Cuban handball team came in second. He was voted the tournament's best goalkeeper. With the Cuban national team, he completed a total of 180 international matches. In 1997 he left Cuba and first moved to Hungary. In 2004 he acquired Hungarian citizenship in order to be able to take part in the Olympic Games in Athens for Hungary , but to his disappointment he was not nominated by the association.
Rivero was the last goalkeeper of the Spanish handball club Portland San Antonio . The club was at the top of the Spanish handball league and won the Champions League with Rivero Hernández in 2001 .
Rivero, who was married to a Hungarian woman and father of three daughters, was receiving medical treatment for depression. He was found dead in his apartment near Pamplona on the evening of November 24, 2004. As a result, his club canceled participation in the imminent European championship tournament for club teams . The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was an aneurysm of the aorta .
Web links
- Vladimir Rivero Hernández in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vladimir Rivero, el portero enamorado de las telenovelas , in: El Mundo of November 25, 2004, accessed on December 11, 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ a b Víctor Soto: Fallce Vladimir Rivero, portero del Portland de balonmano , in: El País of November 26, 2004, accessed on December 11, 2012 (Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rivero Hernández, Vladimir |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rivero, Vladimir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban handball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 22nd January 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pinar del Río |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 2004 |
| Place of death | Baranain near Pamplona |