Kiril Lazarov

Kiril Lazarov, known as Kire, is a Macedonian former professional handball player, born on 10 May 1980, and the current coach of the North Macedonia national team and RK Alkaloid. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and won over forty titles with clubs in North Macedonia, Croatia, Hungary and Spain. He holds the record for most goals in a single World Championship, 92 in nine games at the 2009 tournament, is the all-time top scorer of the EHF Champions League and the only player to pass 1,400 goals in it. In 2015 he became the first player to pass 1,000 Champions League goals while helping Barcelona beat PICK Szeged. He was voted the best right back of the decade in a 2020 Handball Planet poll and was inducted into the European Handball Federation Hall of Fame in 2023.