Mariana Tîrcă

Mariana Tîrcă
Mariana Tîrcă
Personal information
Full name	Mariana Tîrcă
Born	9 October 1962 (age 59); Mândra, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Playing position	Right back
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs
Years	Team
	Rulmentul Brașov
	Știința Bacău
	Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea
	Podravka Koprivnica
1999-2000	GAS Anagennisi Artas
2000-2004	Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea
National team 1
Years	Team
	Romania
	1 National team caps and goals correct ; as of 23 June 2011

Mariana Tîrcă (born 9 October 1962)^[1] is a retired Romanian handball player.^[2] She is considered a living legend of the Romanian and international handball, being voted top 5 women handball players of the 20th century.^[3]

She has played 335 games for the Romanian national team, and scored 2043 goals. Tîrcă played until the age of 41, and is currently the player with most goals for any handball national team in the world.^[4]^[5]

International honours[]

Player

Women's EHF Champions League: Winner 1996 (with Podravka Koprivnica)
EHF Women's Champions Trophy: Winner 1996 (with Podravka Koprivnica)

Coach

Romanian Women's Handball League: Winner 2006 (with Rulmentul Braşov)
Women's EHF Challenge Cup: Winner 2007 (with Rulmentul Braşov)
Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup: Runner-up 2008 (with Rulmentul Braşov)

Personal life[]

Mariana Tîrcă is an honorary citizen of Croatia.^[6]

She is married with Sorin Tîrcă and has one daughter, Sorina.^[7]

References[]

^ "Mariana Tîrcă profile – EuroHandball". EuroHandball. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
^ "Mariana Tîrcă, Hagi al handbalului, despre complexul românesc". 30 July 2019.
^ http://www.tiuk.reea.net/15/tarca.html
^ Mariana Târcă a suferit o intervenţie chirurgicală Archived 2016-08-17 at the Wayback Machine. Jurnalul.ro (in Romanian)
^ ""Brasov este orasul pe care il iubesc si unde as vrea sa ma stabilesc definitiv", Mihail VAKULOVSKI in dialog cu Mariana TIRCA" (in Romanian). tiuk.reea.net. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
^ http://www.tiuk.reea.net/15/tarca.html
^ http://www.tiuk.reea.net/15/tarca.html

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[1] "Mariana Tîrcă profile – EuroHandball". EuroHandball. Retrieved 16 February 2011.

[2] "Mariana Tîrcă, Hagi al handbalului, despre complexul românesc". 30 July 2019.

[3] ttp://www.tiuk.reea.net/15/tarca.html

[4] Mariana Târcă a suferit o intervenţie chirurgicală Archived 2016-08-17 at the Wayback Machine. Jurnalul.ro (in Romanian)

[5] ""Brasov este orasul pe care il iubesc si unde as vrea sa ma stabilesc definitiv", Mihail VAKULOVSKI in dialog cu Mariana TIRCA" (in Romanian). tiuk.reea.net. Retrieved 18 October 2012.

[6] ttp://www.tiuk.reea.net/15/tarca.html

[7] ttp://www.tiuk.reea.net/15/tarca.html

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