Talant Dujshebaev

Dujshebaev is considered by many to be one of the greatest handball coaches of his generation. He successively played for 4 national teams in his playing career: First for the Soviet Union, then the Unified Team, then Russia and finally Spain. His most usual demarcation as a player was centre backcourt. After initially having success with BM Ciudad Real as a coach, he has been coaching Kielce for nearly a decade now.

Talant Dujshebaev
Dujshebaev managing BM Ciudad Real in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Talant Mushanbetovich Dujshebaev
Born	(1968-06-02) 2 June 1968 (age 55) Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Kyrgyz/Russian/Spanish
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Centre back
Club information
Current club	Industria Kielce (manager)
Youth career
Years	Team
1976–1985	CSKA Moscow
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1985–1992	CSKA Moscow
1992–1997	Teka Cantabria
1997–1998	TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke
1998–2001	GWD Minden
2001–2005	BM Ciudad Real
2006–2007	BM Ciudad Real
National team
Years	Team
1988–1989	Soviet Union U-21
1990–1992	Soviet Union
1992	Unified Team	7	(47)
1992–1993	Russia	133[citation needed]	(726)
1995–2002	Spain	158	(569)
Teams managed
2005–2011	BM Ciudad Real
2011–2013	Atlético Madrid
2014–	Industria Kielce
2014–2016	Hungary
2016–2017	Poland
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union IHF Junior World Championship 1989 Spain Player Representing the  Unified Team Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Team Representing  Russia World Men's Handball Championship 1993 Sweden Player Representing  Spain Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Player 2000 Sydney Player European Men's Handball Championship 1996 Spain Player 1998 Italy Player 2000 Croatia Player

He was born in Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union, and started his playing career in CSKA Moscow. He participated on the 1992 Olympic Games as a member of the Unified Team and won the gold medal. He also became the top scorer of the games with 47 goals and was elected into the dream team of the tournament. One year later he participated on the 1993 World Championships as a member of the Russian team and won the gold medal again.

After the 1992 Summer Olympics he signed for Teka Cantabria and a few years later he received the Spanish citizenship. Afterwards he played in the Spain men's national handball team for nearly a decade, gaining two Olympic bronze medals in 1996 and 2000, and silver and bronze medals on the European championships. He also gained several individual recognitions in the world championships, like being elected as the best player of the tournament in 1997, but he failed to win any medals with the Spanish team, which finished 4th in both 1999 and 2003. Ironically when Spain finally won the world championship in 2005, Dujshebaev was no longer the member of the squad.

In 2001, after playing for a few years in Germany on club level, he returned to Spain and signed for BM Ciudad Real where he finished his playing career in 2007. In 2005 he became player-manager of the team, and after his retirement he became the full-time manager. His managerial successes include multiple Liga ASOBAL wins with the team, as well as winning the EHF Champions League in 2006, 2008 and 2009.

In 2006 he briefly returned to the field, when one of the Ciudad center backcourt players, Uroš Zorman injured.

He was voted twice as the IHF World Player of the Year, in 1994 and in 1996. He also came in second in the IHF World Player of the Century voting behind Magnus Wislander from Sweden.

In 2014 (8 January) he replaced Bogdan Wenta as head coach of PGE Vive Kielce.

Contemporaneously with his job in Kielce, he has been also coaching the Hungarian men's national handball team since October 8, 2014 until 2016.

He also coached Poland during the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2017 World Men's Handball Championship in France.

He is the father of Alex Dujshebaev and Daniel Dujshebaev, both of whom joined their father at Kielce in 2017.

Player

CSKA Moscow

• Soviet Handball League: 1986–87
• Soviet Handball Cup: 1986
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 1986–87
• EHF Champions League: 1987–88

Teka Cantabria

• Liga ASOBAL: 1992–93, 1993–94
• Copa del Rey: 1994–95
• Copa ASOBAL: 1996–97, 1997–98
• Supercopa ASOBAL: 1992–93, 1994–95
• EHF Champions League: 1993–94
• EHF Cup: 1992–93
• IHF Super Globe: 1997

Nettelstedt-Lübbecke

• EHF Challenge Cup: 1997–98

Ciudad Real

• Liga ASOBAL: 2003–04, 2006–07
• Copa del Rey: 2003
• Copa ASOBAL: 2004, 2005, 2007
• Supercopa ASOBAL: 2005
• EHF Champions Trophy: 2005, 2006
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 2002, 2003

Manager

Ciudad Real

• Liga ASOBAL: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
• Copa del Rey: 2008, 2011
• Copa ASOBAL: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011
• Supercopa ASOBAL: 2005, 2008, 2011
• EHF Champions League: 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09
• EHF Champions Trophy: 2005, 2006, 2008
• IHF Super Globe: 2007, 2010

Atletico Madrid

• Copa del Rey: 2012, 2013
• Supercopa ASOBAL: 2012
• IHF Super Globe: 2012

Vive Kielce

• Polish Superliga: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Polish Cup: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
• EHF Champions League: 2015–16

Hungary

• 2016 European Championship – 12th

Poland

• 2016 Summer Olympics – 4th

Individual

• Top scorer at 1992 Summer Olympics – 47 goals
• Best Center back at 1992 Summer Olympics
• IHF World Player of the Year (2): 1994, 1996
• Best Center back at 1995 World Championship
• MVP at 1996 European Championship
• Best Center back at 1997 World Championship
• MVP at 1997 World Championship
• Best Center back at 1998 European Championship
• MVP at 2000 Summer Olympics
• IHF World Player of the Century – 2nd place
• No. 10 jersey retired at BM Ciudad Real in 2005
• All-Star Team as Best Head Coach at EHF Champions League: 2015, 2022

• List of handballers with 1000 or more international goals