Eliza Iulia Buceschi (born 1 August 1993) is a Romanian

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er for

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and the Romanian national team.

Career

Club

Buceschi started her career in 2005 at HCM Baia Mare. She was the best scorer with 100 goals of the Liga Naţională's 2011–12 season until a surgery on a broken finger in her right hand, ruled her out for the rest of the season starting with the month of February. This prompted a move to

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, where she was immidiately loaned to her former club. She ranked second in the 2012–2013 Cupa României's top goalscorers list. The season after she joined HCM Baia Mare on a permanent contract once again. Here she won the Romanian Cup in 2013, 2014 and 2015, the 2013 and 2014 Romanian Supercup and 2014 Romanian Championship. In 2015 she joined German side

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. Here she won the German Championship in 2016. In July 2016 she joined Danish side

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. Already in December 2016 however she was released of her contract. She then returned to Romanian and joined

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for the rest of the season. The season after she joined Corona Brașov. In 2020 she joined

. Here she won the Romanian Championship in 2022.

International

In July 2012 Buceschi returned participating at the

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in the

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where she finished fifth on the top scorers' list with 58 goals. She also participated at the 2011 Women's 19 European Handball Championship in the

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where she finished third on the top scorers' list with 55 goals. Eliza Buceschi is also a member of the Romanian national team, after she made her debut on 19 October 2011 against

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scoring 4 goals. In December 2018, Buceschi finished as second top scorer at the 2018 Handball Championship.

Achievements

* Liga Naţională: **''Winner'': 2014, 2022 *Cupa României: **''Winner'': 2013, 2014, 2015 *Supercupa României: **''Winner'': 2013, 2014 * Bundesliga Frauen: **''Winner'': 2016

Individual awards

* Romanian Hope of the Year: 2011 * HCM Baia Mare's Player of the Year: 2011 * Best Young Player of the

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* Handball-Planet.com World Young Female Left Back: 2014–15

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buceschi, Eliza 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Baia Mare Romanian female handball players FCM Håndbold players SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea (handball) players CS Minaur Baia Mare (women's handball) players Romanian expatriate handball players in Germany Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Romania 21st-century Romanian sportswomen