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Győri ETO KC Győri ETO KC (, lit. Concordance Gymnastics Department of Győr Handball Club) is a Hungary, Hungarian professional women's handball club from Győr. Since they are sponsored by Audi, the official name for the team is Győri Audi ETO KC. On dome ...

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. In an election made by the website Handball Planet was elected as the best player in the world of the 2010s, through the popular vote, Duda was considered the best defender of the last ten years. She is widely regarded as one of the best handball players of all time. She was included in the

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Hall of Fame in 2023.

Career

Club

Originally a

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athlete, encouraged by her older sister Ana Amorim, who was already part of Brazil women's national handball team, Amorim started to play handball at age 11 in the Colégio Barão do Rio Branco. She moved to Metodista/São Bernardo in 2002 after an invitation from Silvio Rodriguez, who spotted her during the youth games in Recife. She finished runner-up with her new team in that season. Two years later, as a USCS/São Caetano player, Amorim won the São Paulo state junior championship and faced a marathon of matches as she played parallel for the youth, junior and adult teams. She moved to Europe in February 2006, joining her sister in the Macedonian capital team Kometal Skopje. Eduarda spent three-and-a-half seasons with Kometal when the club faced heavy financial troubles and let some of their key players go to cut their expenses. Eduarda Amorim 2011b

Amorim found her new home in Hungary, signing with

Győri ETO KC Győri ETO KC (, lit. Concordance Gymnastics Department of Győr Handball Club) is a Hungary, Hungarian professional women's handball club from Győr. Since they are sponsored by Audi, the official name for the team is Győri Audi ETO KC. On dome ...

on 23 February 2009. A five times

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winner with Győr, Amorim obtained the premier continental club competition title in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019. In an online fans' poll launched by the

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, she was chosen as the best left back of the competition in 2014. Amorim started her last professional season signing with Russia's

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, which she left in March once the

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led Russian teams to be excluded from the EHF Champions League. She then signed with

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, playing two Champions League games and the final stretches of the Liga Naționalà and the Cupa României, and upon the season's conclusion in May 2022 Amorim announced her retirement.

International

The Brazilian left back won the gold medal in three editions of the

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, Rio 2007, Guadalajara 2011 and

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. She also participated in four Olympic handball tournaments, reaching the quarterfinals of

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and

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. In 2013, she won the

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and was elected the

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of the competition.

Achievements

*

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: **''Winner'': 2013 *

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: **''Winner'': 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 **''Finalist'': 2012, 2016 **''Semifinalist'': 2010, 2011, 2021 *Romanian Cup: **''Winner'': 2022 *

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: **''Winner (10)'': 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 *

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: **''Winner (11)'': 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 *Brazilian Championship: **''Silver Medalist'': 2002 * Macedonian Championship **''Winner'': 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 *

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**''Winner'': 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 * Pan American Championship: **''Winner'': 2007, 2011, 2017 **''Runners-up'': 2009 *

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: **''Winner'': 2007, 2011, 2019

Awards and recognition

*

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: 2014 * EHF Player of the Year: 2019 * All-Star Left Back of the Junior World Championship: 2005 * MVP of the World Championship: 2013 * All-Star Left Back of the EHF Champions League:

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* Best Defender of the EHF Champions League:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

,

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,

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

,

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,

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* Foreign Handballer of the Year in Hungary: 2014 * All-Star Left Back of the Pan American Championship:

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

* Handball-Planet.com All-Star Defender of the Year: 2019 * Handball-Planet.com Player of the Decade: 2020 * EHF Hall of Fame in 2023.

Personal life

She got married in 2013 to Macedonian Dean Taleski. Their daughter Idalina was born in May 2023.Blumenauense Duda Amorim, campeã mundial de handebol, dá à luz a sua primeira filha
/ref> Amorim got a master's degree in sports management from the

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.Eduarda Amorim: “Athletes with professional training must be there to give a human touch to the sport business”
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References

External links

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