Alexandru Buligan Explained

Birth Place:	Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania^[1]
Height:	200 cm
Weight:	89 kg
Sport:	Handball
Club:	Poli Timișoara (1977–81) Steaua (1981–82) Poli Timișoara (1982–88) Dinamo București (1988–90) JD Arrate (1990–94) BM Guadalajara (1994–95) SDC San Antonio (1995–2002)^[2]

Alexandru Buligan (born 22 April 1960) is a retired Romanian handball goalkeeper who played a record of 280 international games for Romania.^[3] He won bronze medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1990 World Championships.^[4]

At the club level he played in Romania until 1990 and in Spain from 1990 to 2002. After that he worked as a goalkeeper coach and assistant for the Spain men's national handball team, winning with them the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship.^[5]

Honours

Player

• Romanian League

1982

• Romanian Cup: 1986, 1988
• Spanish League

2002

• Spanish Cup

1999, 2001

• Spanish Supercup

2002

• EHF Cup Winners' Cup

2000

• EHF Supercup

2000

• EHF Champions League

2001Individual

• World Championship Best Goalkeeper

1990

• Liga ASOBAL Goalkeeper of the Year

1991, 1997, 1998, 2000

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418044117/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/alexandru-buligan-1.html Alexandru Buligan
2. http://www.cosr.ro/sportiv/alexandru-buligan Alexandru Buligan
3. Web site: Naționala de handbal a României în fața unui nou început . reporterntv.ro . 24 January 2012 . Sorin Cealera . Romanian.
4. Web site: Buligan Honoured in Timișoara. European Handball Federation. 23 August 2007. 11 July 2016. 10 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160610022949/http://www.eurohandball.com/article/010545/Buligan+Honoured+in+Timisoara. dead.
5. Web site: El Rey pide a los campeones del mundo más títulos . . 25 February 2005 . Enrique Ojeda . Spanish.