Background
He was born in Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union, and started his playing career in CSKA Moscow.
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He was born in Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union, and started his playing career in CSKA Moscow.
His most usual demarcation as a player was center backcourt. He also became the top scorer of the games with 47 goals and was elected into the dream team of the tournament. After the 1992 Olympics he signed for Teka Cantabria and a few years later he received the Spanish citizenship.
In 2001, after playing for a few years in Germany on club level, he returned to Spain and signed for Bachelor of Medicine 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 Vive Targi Kielce. Contemporaneously with his job in Kielce, he has been also coaching the Hungarian men"s national handball team since October 8, 2014. He is the father of Alex Dujshebaev.