Mariana Tîrcă (born 9 October 1962) is a

retired Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their j ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player. She is considered a living legend of the Romanian and international handball, being voted top 5 women handball players of the 20th century. 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.

International honours

;Player * Champions League: Winner 1996 (with Podravka Koprivnica) *

Champions Trophy The ICC Champions Trophy, formerly known as the ICC Knock Out Trophy, is an international One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) contested by international men's teams. Inaugurat ...

: Winner 1996 (with Podravka Koprivnica) ;Coach * Romanian League: Winner 2006 (with Rulmentul Braşov) *

Challenge Cup The Rugby Football League Challenge Cup, commonly known just as the Challenge Cup is a Single-elimination tournament, knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, it is the world's old ...

: Winner 2006 (with Rulmentul Braşov) *

Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renamed the UEFA Cup Winne ...

: Runner-up 2008 (with Rulmentul Braşov)

Personal life

Mariana Tîrcă is an

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Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

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

References

1962 births Living people Handball players from Brașov County Romanian female handball players Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia RK Podravka Koprivnica players Romanian expatriate handball players Expatriate handball players in Croatia Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece 20th-century Romanian sportswomen {{Romania-handball-bio-stub