Mariana Tîrcă
Personal information
Full name Mariana Tîrcă
Born (1962-10-09) 9 October 1962
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 Apps (Gls)
 Romania 335 (2043)
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
Coach

Personal life

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

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

References

  1. "Mariana Tîrcă profile – EuroHandball". EuroHandball. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  2. "Mariana Tîrcă, Hagi al handbalului, despre complexul românesc". 30 July 2019.
  3. "Tiuk! - Mariana TIRCA". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
  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. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  6. "Tiuk! - Mariana TIRCA". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
  7. "Tiuk! - Mariana TIRCA". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-02-16.


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