HC Odorheiu Secuiesc
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Handbal Club Odorheiu Secuiesc (in Hungarian
: Székelyudvarhelyi Kézilabda Club, commonly abbreviated SzKC) is a Romania
n team handball
club based in the city of Odorheiu Secuiesc
, that lies in the heart of the ethno-cultural region of Székely Land
.
Founded in the summer 2005 as Junior Kézilabda Club, the team entered the Romanian second division yet in that year. They won promotion to the top level championship in 2007 and two years later they already debuted on continental level, playing in the EHF Challenge Cup
.
In 2011 the team achieved their best ever result by finishing runners-up in the league, with that they earned the right to participate in the 2011–12 edition of the EHF Cup
.
To ensure that the handball in the town got not only past and present, the club runs a broad youth program, in which they co-operate with more than thirty schools in Harghita, Covasna and Mureş county, with over 500 schoolboys attending on trainings in a number of age groups.
Goalkeepers Sorin-Ion Bârză Lőrinc Jobb Szilárd Orbán Lajos Varó
Wingers Alin Câmpan Gabriel Florea Attila Komporály Andrei Mihalcea
Line players Martin Johansson András Szász Huba Tálas
Back players Cristian Adomnicăi Irakli Chikovani Botond Ferenczi Levente Károly Goran Kuzmanoski Tihamér Lakatos Levente Orbán Vladimir Rusia
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
: Székelyudvarhelyi Kézilabda Club, commonly abbreviated SzKC) is a Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n team handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
club based in the city of Odorheiu Secuiesc
Odorheiu Secuiesc
Odorheiu Secuiesc is the second-largest city in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. In its short form, it is also known as Odorhei in Romanian and Udvarhely in Hungarian...
, that lies in the heart of the ethno-cultural region of Székely Land
Székely Land
The Székely Land or Szekler Land refers to the territories inhabited mainly by the Székely, a Hungarian-speaking ethnic group from eastern Transylvania...
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Founded in the summer 2005 as Junior Kézilabda Club, the team entered the Romanian second division yet in that year. They won promotion to the top level championship in 2007 and two years later they already debuted on continental level, playing in the EHF Challenge Cup
EHF Challenge Cup
The EHF Challenge Cup is an official European Handball Federation competition for men's clubs of Europe and takes place every year. Before 1999/2000, it was called EHF City Cup....
.
In 2011 the team achieved their best ever result by finishing runners-up in the league, with that they earned the right to participate in the 2011–12 edition of the EHF Cup
EHF Cup
The EHF Cup is an official competition for men's handball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. From 2012/13 it will be merged with EHF Cup Winners' Cup to EHF European Cup....
.
To ensure that the handball in the town got not only past and present, the club runs a broad youth program, in which they co-operate with more than thirty schools in Harghita, Covasna and Mureş county, with over 500 schoolboys attending on trainings in a number of age groups.
Current squad
- As of 14 July 2011
Goalkeepers Sorin-Ion Bârză Lőrinc Jobb Szilárd Orbán Lajos Varó
Wingers Alin Câmpan Gabriel Florea Attila Komporály Andrei Mihalcea
Line players Martin Johansson András Szász Huba Tálas
Back players Cristian Adomnicăi Irakli Chikovani Botond Ferenczi Levente Károly Goran Kuzmanoski Tihamér Lakatos Levente Orbán Vladimir Rusia