At the age of 42, bid farewell to the professional player’s career Kirill LazarovOne of the best handball players of all time. He was the captain of his national team for North Macedonia for a year and a half, but he also played for Nantes in France, his last match against Paris Saint-Germain in the French Cup final.
Lazarov has played for many star teams, including Vesperm and Barcelona, and won the Champions League with Barcelona in his native Croatia and Hungary. He scored 1596 goals in the International Cup series, while he scored 1443 goals in 208 matches for the national team.
His retirement has been written in many countries around the world (we’ve dedicated more material to his career), and Mundo Deportivo has highlighted important moments in his career. Asked. One answer revealed that when he was a legionnaire in Croatia and then in Hungary, local associations approached him with the possibility of naturalization:
I didn’t feel like it, and if you’re not excited about something, you’re not excited, don’t. I know I would have won medals with those teams, but I would have felt betrayed against my country
– He gave a clear explanation to Lazarov, whose best result for the national team in his career was fifth place at the European Championship 2012. By the way, he became the top scorer of that tournament, so he succeeded in 61 times in a meeting.