Aleksey Frantsuzov
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| Full name | Aleksey Alekseyevich Frantsuzov | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
16 October 1971 Chelyabinsk, USSR | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Russia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 199 cm (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
1983-1988 | MBU SSCHOR No 13 Chelyabinsk | ||||||||||||||||
1988-1990 | Polet Sports Club | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
1990-1997 | Polet Sports Club | ||||||||||||||||
1996-1997 | → VfL Bad Schwartau (loan) | ||||||||||||||||
1997-1998 | BM Ciudad Real | ||||||||||||||||
1998-? | Bidasoa Irun | ||||||||||||||||
– | BM Los Barrios | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | |||||||||||||||
– | Russia | 80 | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aleksey Alekseyevich Frantsuzov (Алексей Алексеевич Французов, born 16 October 1971) is a Russian male handball player. He was a member of the Russia men's national handball team, with whom he won the 1993 World Championship. He was also part of the team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, playing one match.[1]
Club career
He started playing handball aged 12 at a youth sports school in his hometown Chelyabinsk.[2] His first top level club was Polet Sports Club in Russia, where he finished second in the 1993 Russian Handball Super League as his best result.[2] In December 1996 he joined the German 2nd tier club VfL Bad Schwartau on loan for the rest of the season.[3] After coming back from loan, he joined the Spanish club BM Ciudad Real.[4] After a season in Spain he joined Bidasoa.[5] He retired in 2005 after playing for the lower league club BM Los Barrios.
He played 80 matches for the Russian national team.[6] He became a world champion in 1993, when Russia beat Sweden in the final. Additionally, in 1995 he won the Supercup Tournament.[7]
References
- ^ "Profile of Aleksey Frantsuzov". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Alexei Franzusow". book-chel.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ^ "Pokal-Final-Four – VfL-Star Frantsouzow muß wohl gehen". mopo.de (in German). 6 March 1997. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ^ "Liga ASOBAL 1997/98". balonmano.mforos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ^ "El Bidasoa pierde a Mads Storgaard" (PDF). hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com (in German). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ^ "Liga ASOBAL 1998/99". balonmano.mforos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ^ "Rußland gewinnt Supercup". archiv.thw-handball.de (in German).