Stevche Alushovski (; born 1 October 1972) is a retired

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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 current coach of GRK Ohrid.

Career

Stevche Alushovski was born in

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, but in his early childhood, he returned to

Bitola Bitola (; ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing ...

with his family. His handball career began in Bitola, on the youth team of

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. At the age of 17, in the 1990/1991 season, he became a first team member at Bitola Club. During his career, he played for:

, RK Prespa, RK Vardar PRO, and

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. He has won the Macedonian First League of Handball 13 times and the

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11 times. In 2004, he was proclaimed the best handball player in

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. For the Macedonian national handball team, he played more than 200 matches and scored more than 900 goals. (in

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) In 2009, he was a member of the team that finished 11th in the

2009 World Men's Handball Championship The 2009 World Men's Handball Championship was the 21st edition of the tournament that took place in Croatia from 16 January to 1 February, in the cities of Split, Zadar, Osijek, Varaždin, Poreč, Zagreb and Pula. Croatia was selected from a gr ...

. Three years later, he played in the

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, where they finished 5th.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alusevski, Stevce 1972 births Macedonian male handball players Living people Sportspeople from Bitola Handball players from Sydney Australian emigrants to North Macedonia Australian people of Macedonian descent RK Vardar players