Article by Costi Pruna – published Monday, August 18, 2025 22:12 / Updated Monday, August 18, 2025 22:38
Alexandru Buligan, 65, believes that in the Romanian handball there is a lot of work, and for successful patience and strategies are taken to the end.
The former great goalkeeper of Romania with bronze medalist at OJ 1984 and at the 1990 CM, has reached 65 years and this season is a coach at Rapid. He thinks that The new team of the Rapid can return to the top, if the plan of the head coach Laurent Bezeau can follow, Strategy accepted by the club management. After the match won by Rapid with the Danube Brăila score 32-29, in the Brasov tournament, Alexandru Buligan accepted a short dialogue with GSP.
Alexandru Buligan: “It is more complicated in the female handball than in the male!”
After training in the male handball with great success the national of Spain, with which he won the world gold in 2005, the silver at EC 2006 and the bronze at OJ 2008, Alexandru Buligan has been active in 2023 in the female handball. He says that girls are more difficult than boys, but he hopes he will help Rapid.
“I was accommodated with the female handball when I was in Bistrita. It is not easy, it is more complicated for girls than in boys. It is a new change, a new project, but I will do what I have done all my life and I hope to do it better and to help the fast.
I wish to make a good champion, I help Diana Ciuca to be at the national team, We also want to do good things. I will not hide anything from what I know, I want to show everything I learned throughout my career and help the girls to enjoy my knowledge. ” told GSP, Alexandru Buligan.
Alexandru Buligan: “Rapid needs patience!”
Former winner of the Champions League in 2001 with the Spanish team Portland San Antonio, Alexandru Buligan trusts the project of the Rapid club and only requires patience from the leaders.
“It will not be easy at all, but I trust Laurent Bezeau (the head coach), in all my colleagues, that we will succeed. I hope that the people in the leadership will have patience as it has been declared, for this project from Rapid to succeed in 2-3 years.
I would be happy to be patience, Let's do everything with small and new steps at Rapid with the Academy, not to make mistakes by jumping over certain stages, Let us be able to consolidate every year, and our project will reach the end, and our team will return where it wants. ”, Spects Alexandru Buligan.
“At first it will be complicated!”
With 9 new players compared to last season, but also with a changed staff, Rapid showed well during the training period and now awaits the debut in the official season.
“When you have 9 new players, it will not be easy, at first it is complicated. Each one comes from another environment, with other features from the old teams and is complicated, because you do not have the time.
In general, we are satisfied with what the team looks like with the new players, now at the end of the preparations, but we cannot get drunk with cold water. It is very important to start the season well, because we have heavy parties. ”Says Alexandru Buligan.
“I don't want to lie to anyone: it's a lot of work!”
After training in Romania at the male national, in Constanța, Bistrița and now at Rapid, Alexandru Buligan considers that the Romanian handball is far from the one that the nations that perform.
“We have to work a lot so that the handball in Romania can progress, because we are still far away. I want to be honest, I don't want to lie to anyone, I don't want to hide behind the words, but that's the reality. ”, Concluded Alexandru Buligan.
Rapid will play in the first stage of the new championship on August 30 with CSM Slatina, and in the European Cups, on September 27, in the second preliminary round of EHF European League with Hypo Vienna.
