MADRID 4 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The European Handball Federation (EHF) made official this Wednesday the list of players who have entered the Hall of Fame of the European organization, a shortlist of illustrious names in which two of the most outstanding players of recent years appear. Spanish handball such as Viran Morros and Marta Mangué, according to the Royal Spanish Handball Federation (RFEBM).
Both players, representatives of the ‘Hispanos’ and the ‘Guerreras’, will become handball legends on December 14, in Vienna, when the gala is held to reward the Spaniards along with the rest of the organization’s winners.
Viran Morros, who is still active playing for Swiss side Pfadi Winterthur, is “one of the best defenders in recent times” in the ‘Hispanos’, according to RFEBM. Since his debut with the national team, the defender was one of the fixtures on the selectors’ lists for major international events and closed his career with 259 games with the national team’s shirt.
Morros has three gold medals in his record, one world (2013) and two European (2018 and 2020), in addition to one continental silver (2018) and four bronzes, two world (2011 and 2021), one European (2014) and one Olympic (Tokyo 2020). As for clubs, there are ten ASOBAL League titles, three Champions League titles and seven Copa del Rey titles.
For her part, former player Marta Mangué, who became the top scorer in the national team and surpassed 1,000 international goals, “left behind a legend that has spread throughout all these years,” recalled the RFEBM.
The Canarian was one of the great figures that led Spain to achieve two silver medals in the European Championships in 2008 and 2014, in addition to an Olympic bronze in 2012 and a world bronze in 2011. As far as clubs are concerned, the player is a triple champion of the Iberdrola Warriors League, twice champion of the Serbian League and once of the French League, among other successes.
Completing the list of those chosen for entry into the EHF Hall of Fame are the Germans Andreas Thiel, Mats Olsson and Volker Zerbe, the Serbian Dejan Peric, the Romanians Luminita Hutupan-Dinu and Carmen Amariei, the Hungarian Gergo Iváncsik, the French Nikola Karabatic and Luc Abalo, the Danes Mikkel Hansen and Anja Andersen, the Swedes Ljubomir Vranjes and Mia Hermansson-Högdahl, the Swiss Andy Schmid, the Norwegian Stine Oftedal Dahmke, the Swede Staffan Olsson, the Macedonian Indira Kastratovic, and the Croatians Ivan Cupic and Igor Vori.