Alexandru Buligan

Alexandru Buligan
A retired Romanian handball goalkeeper
Personal information
Born22 April 1960 (1960-04-22) (age 64)
Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania[1]
Height200 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight89 kg (196 lb)
Sport
SportHandball
ClubPoli 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]
Medal record
Representing  Romania
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Los Angeles Team
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Czechoslovakia Team

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]

  1. ^ Alexandru Buligan . sports-reference.com
  2. ^ Alexandru Buligan. Romanian Olympic Committee
  3. ^ Sorin Cealera (24 January 2012). "Naționala de handbal a României în fața unui nou început" (in Romanian). reporterntv.ro.
  4. ^ "Buligan Honoured in Timișoara". European Handball Federation. 23 August 2007. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  5. ^ Enrique Ojeda (25 February 2005). "El Rey pide a los campeones del mundo más títulos" (in Spanish). Diario AS.