CSM Bucharest qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League and Cristina Nyagu celebrated the highlight of her career after the match in Bitigheim.

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Kristina Nyagu, the third handball player with more than 1000 goals in the Champions League after Anita Horbic and Jovanka Radičević

In the match against Bittigheim, Christina Nyagu reached the figure of 1000 scored goals in the Champions League, an exceptional performance by a Romanian.

Four-time winner of the title of the best handball player in the world, Kristina Nyagu, also set an impressive milestone two months ago, at the European Handball Championship.

Nyagu became the first player in history to score 300 goals at European Championships, so it proves that Sunday’s performance was no fluke.

Kristina Nyagu made her debut on October 24, 2009 in the EGF Champions League, playing for “Olthim” (Rymnik-Vilcha). Then our Romanian scored 4 times in the goal of the Iberians from Ichaco Estella.

“I didn’t think I would reach these numbers when I started playing in the Champions League, but here we are.

I’ve always said that it’s not individual performances that matter, it’s teamwork on the pitch, but of course it’s incredible to be able to mark another game.

My career has been marred by injuries, I missed almost two years in 2012 and 2012 with a shoulder injury, I also had problems after knee injuries in 2013 and 2019.

Then, in 2020, came the pandemic. So, I played more or less nine full seasons in this competition.

This makes this achievement even more incredible and even more difficult to achieve, but I want to reiterate that team success is more important than individual awards.

I have many memories of the Champions League, I played for important teams in my career. But what I love most is that I came back even stronger after each injury, and they weren’t minor injuries.

Those were grueling times, but if there’s one thing that should be emphasized, it’s the ability to bounce back and get in good shape after a big challenge.” – said Kristina Nyagu for eurohandball.com.

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