Simona Spiridon

Simona Spiridon
Personal information
Born	(1980-02-01) 1 February 1980 Roman, Romania
Nationality	Austrian
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Line Player
Club information
Current club	Hypo Niederösterreich
Number	80
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1998–2001	A.S. Silcotub Zalau
2001–2006	Hypo Niederösterreich
2006–2007	CS Rulmentul Braşov
2007–2011	Győri ETO KC
2011–2012	Zvezda Zvenigorod
2013–2014	Hypo Niederösterreich
National team
Years	Team
0000–2004	Romania
2004–2014	Austria	98	(368)
Teams managed
2012–2014	Hypo Niederösterreich youth
2014–	Austria youth

Simona Spiridon (née Popa; born 1 February 1980 in Roman, Romania) is a Romanian-Austrian former handballer and handball coach. She featured in the Austrian national team.

Career

Romanian born Spiridon moved to Austria in 2001 when she signed for Hypo Niederösterreich. Having gained Austrian citizenship, her first outing with her new national team came in 2004, at a tournament in Ukraine where they defeated Belarus. Averaging 3 goals per match, Spiridon has scored over 368 goals in 98 international appearances.

Her club successes are well documented. With Romania, she has picked up two gold medals in younger age category World and European Championships in addition to the 4 Hungarian Cup and 5 Austrian Cup titles. Spiridon has also made it to the EHF Champions League Final 2009 against Viborg and semi-final on four occasions.

From autumn 2012 to 2014 Spiridon worked at Hypo Niederösterreich as a youth coach, at the beginning of the season 2013/14 she was reactivated in Hypo's squad. In the beginning of 2014 she ended her active career. In the summer of 2014 she started as a coach at the ÖHB.