Eduarda Amorim
Amorim in 2016
Personal information
Full name Eduarda Idalina Amorim Taleska
Born (1986-09-23) 23 September 1986 (age 37)
Blumenau, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Hungarian[1]
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Left back
Number 18
Youth career
Years Team
0000–2002
 Colégio Barão do Rio Branco
Senior clubs
Years Team
2002–2004
 Metodista/São Bernardo
2004–2006
 USCS/São Caetano
2006–2009
 Kometal Gjorče Petrov Skopje
2009–2021
 Győri ETO KC
2021–2022
 Rostov-Don
2022
 CSM București
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2021
 Brazil 204 (677)
Teams managed
2023–
 North Macedonia (assistant)
Medal record
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2013 Serbia
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Team
Pan American Championship
Gold medal – first place 2007 Dominican Republic
Gold medal – first place 2011 Brazil
Gold medal – first place 2017 Argentina
Silver medal – second place 2009 Chile
South and Central American Championship
Gold medal – first place 2018 Brazil

Eduarda Idalina "Duda" Amorim Taleska (born 23 September 1986) is a Brazilian-Hungarian former handball player. She played most of her career in Győr as a player of Győri ETO KC, for whom she won five editions of the EHF Champions League. Amorim also played for Brazil women's national handball team for 15 years, winning the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship.

She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2014[2] by the International Handball Federation.[3]

In an election made by the website Handball Planet was elected as the best player in the world of the 2010s, through the popular vote, Duda was considered the best defender of the last ten years.[4] She is widely regarded as one of the best handball players of all time.

Career

Club

Originally a rhythmic gymnastics athlete, encouraged by her older sister Ana Amorim, who was already part of Brazil women's national handball team, Amorim started to play handball at age 11 in the Colégio Barão do Rio Branco. She moved to Metodista/São Bernardo in 2002 after an invitation from Silvio Rodriguez, who spotted her during the youth games in Recife. She finished runner-up with her new team in that season.[5][6]

Two years later, as a USCS/São Caetano player, Amorim won the São Paulo state junior championship and faced a marathon of matches as she played parallel for the youth, junior and adult teams.[5]

She moved to Europe in February 2006, joining her sister in the Macedonian capital team Kometal Skopje. Eduarda spent three-and-a-half seasons with Kometal when the club faced heavy financial troubles and let some of their key players go to cut their expenses.[7]

Amorim with Győri ETO KC in 2011.

Amorim found her new home in Hungary, signing with Győri ETO KC on 23 February 2009.[8]

A five times EHF Champions League winner with Győr, Amorim obtained the premier continental club competition title in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019. In an online fans' poll launched by the European Handball Federation, she was chosen as the best left back of the competition in 2014.[9]

Amorim started her last professional season signing with Russia's Rostov-Don, which she left in March once the Russian invasion of Ukraine led Russian teams to be excluded from the EHF Champions League. She then signed with CSM București,[10] playing two Champions League games and the final stretches of the Liga Naționalà and the Cupa României, and upon the season's conclusion in May 2022 Amorim announced her retirement.[11]

International

Amorim representing Brazil at the 2019 Pan American Games.

The Brazilian left back won the gold medal in three editions of the Pan American Games, Rio 2007, Guadalajara 2011 and Lima 2019. She also participated in four Olympic handball tournaments, reaching the quarterfinals of London 2012 and Rio 2016.[12] In 2013, she won the World Championship and was elected the Most Valuable Player of the competition.[13]

Achievements

Awards and recognition

Amorim holding her 2013 World Women's Handball Championship gold medal

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Personal life

She got married in 2013 to Macedonian Dean Taleski.[17] Their daughter Idalina was born in May 2023.[18] Amorim got a master's degree in sports management from the Johan Cruyff Institute.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Eduarda Amorim állampolgársági esküt tett | Győri Audi ETO KC".
  2. ^ Karabatic and Amorim – Grundfos World Handball Players of the Year. ihf.info (25 February 2015)
  3. ^ "XXI Women's World Championship 2013. Team Roster, Brazil" (PDF). IHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  4. ^ https://www.nsctotal.com.br/noticias/duda-amorim-de-blumenau-e-eleita-a -best-handball-player-in-the-world-in-the-decade
  5. ^ a b "Duda Amorim: Handebol" (in Portuguese). UOL Esporte. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  6. ^ a b Eduarda Amorim: “Athletes with professional training must be there to give a human touch to the sport business”
  7. ^ "Újabb élcsapat hullik szét" (in Hungarian). Handball.hu. 23 February 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  8. ^ "Amorim az ETO-é" (in Hungarian). Handball.hu. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  9. ^ "Női kézi BL: három győri, öt montenegrói az álomcsapatban" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  10. ^ Duda Amorim anuncia sua saída da Rússia e define nova casa
  11. ^ "Duda Amorim se aposenta: três momentos marcantes da maior jogadora de handebol do Brasil" (in Portuguese). IOC. 22 May 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  12. ^ "Duda Amorim Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
  13. ^ "Női kézi-vb: Görbicz az All Star-csapatban, Amorim az MVP" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  14. ^ "New All-Star Team features three fresh names and returning Neagu". eurohandball.com. 5 June 2020.
  15. ^ "Fan favourite Oftedal leads Györ quartet in All-star Team". European Handball Federation. 28 May 2021.
  16. ^ a b "World Female Best 8 in 2019!". handball-planet.com. 20 January 2020.
  17. ^ Estrela na Europa e melhor do mundo, Duda mira reinado: "Motivadíssima"
  18. ^ Blumenauense Duda Amorim, campeã mundial de handebol, dá à luz a sua primeira filha

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