Gabriel Zugrăvescu was a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player and

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a government bodies through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administra ...

, and author of books on handball. He was nicknamed "Bebe".Antrenorul Gabriel Zugrăvescu, profesionist de elită cu bunici din Agapia
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Romania women's national handball team The Romanian women's national team represents Romania in senior women's international handball and is controlled by the Romanian Handball Federation, the governing body for handball in Romania. It competes in the three major intern ...

finished 4th in the 1971 World Championship.

Achievements

Player

Handball 11s

* Liga Națională: **''Bronze Medalist'': 1950

Manager

Handball 11s

* Liga Națională: **''Winner'': 1959, 1961 **''Silver Medalist'': 1957, 1958, 1963

Handball 7s

* Liga Națională: **''Winner'': 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 **''Silver Medalist'': 1964 * European Champions Cup: **''Winner'':

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

Personal life

His father was a priest.

References

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