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Senta

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, Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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) is a Spanish handball

Team handball

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 player (goalkeeper

Goalkeeper

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) of Hungarian

Hungarians in Vojvodina

Hungarians are the second largest ethnic group in the Vojvodina province in northern Serbia. According to the 2002 census, there are 290,207 ethnic Hungarians in Vojvodina who compose 14.28% of the provincial population. The number of ethnic Hungarians in the whole of Serbia is 293,299, and their...

 origin, currently playing for the Spanish club BM Ciudad Real

BM Ciudad Real

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. He received bronze medals at the 1999 World Championships

1999 World Men's Handball Championship

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 with the National team of FR Yugoslavia

Serbia men's national volleyball team

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, and again at the 2001 World Championships

2001 World Men's Handball Championship

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. He has Serbia

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n, Hungaria

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n and, since 2008, Spanish

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 citizenship.

Árpád Sterbik was voted Hungarian Handballer of the Year

Hungarian Handballer of the Year

The Hungarian Handballer of the Year award is an annual prize, which is given to the Hungarian handballer who is considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year....

 in 2002. Three years later he was awarded the IHF World Player of the Year

IHF World Player of the Year

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 title by the International Handball Federation

International Handball Federation

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.

Individual awards

• Hungarian Handballer of the Year
  Hungarian Handballer of the Year
  The Hungarian Handballer of the Year award is an annual prize, which is given to the Hungarian handballer who is considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year....
  
  : 2002
• IHF World Player of the Year
  IHF World Player of the Year
  -Men:-Women:-External links:* *...
  
  : 2005