The Romanian
\nwomen’s handball team had a perfect start at the European Championship underway
\nin France. Our team won the first two games and is now top of the tables in
\nGroup D, having already secured qualification to the main group phase. In the
\nfirst game, last Saturday, Romania defeated the Czech Republic 31-28, thus
\nmaking amends for their loss last year, when the Czech Republic knocked out
\nRomania in the round of 16 at the World Cup. On Monday, Romania defeated
\nGermany 29-24. The game also marked a new record for our team captain, Cristina
\nNeagu. With five goals scored, she has now reached a total of 206 goals in
\neditions of the European Championship, an all-time high for this competition.
\nNeagu thus managed to outperform Agnes Farkas of Hungary, who withdrew from
\ninternational competitions, who ranked first with 205 goals. Ranking third was
\nGermany’s Grit Jurack, herself a retired player, with 194 goals.<\/p>\n
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Cristina Neagu
\nwas born in Bucharest, on August 26, 1988. She made her debut at a local sport
\nclub. As a youth player, she was several times designated best player in the
\nworld, starting 2005, the year when Romania won silver at the European Youth
\nChampionships in Austria. In 2006, as a senior player, she started playing for
\nRulmentul Brasov, then she was signed by Oltchim Ramnicu Valcea. Then followed
\nseveral injuries for Cristina Neagu, which kept the player away from the field
\nfor two years. After Oltchim was disbanded, Neagu transferred to Buducnost
\nPodgorica in Montenegro, a team with which she won the Champions League in
\n2015. Since 2017 she has been playing for CSM Bucharest. <\/p>\n
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Her track record
\nfor the national squad includes a bronze medal at the European Championships in
\nDenmark and Norway in 2010 and another bronze medal at the World Cup in Brazil
\nin 2015. In 2010, 2015 and 2016 she was designated best player in the world by
\nthe International Handball Federation. Neagu thus became the first handballer
\nin the world to win the award three times. <\/p>\n
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