Eduarda Amorim

Eduarda Amorim
Amorim in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Eduarda Idalina Amorim Taleska
Born	(1986-09-23) 23 September 1986 (age 38) Blumenau, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian Hungarian[1]
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Left back
Number	18
Youth career
Years	Team
0000–2002	Colégio Barão do Rio Branco
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2002–2004	Metodista/São Bernardo
2004–2006	USCS/São Caetano
2006–2009	Kometal Gjorče Petrov Skopje
2009–2021	Győri ETO KC
2021–2022	Rostov-Don
2022	CSM București
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2021	Brazil	204	(677)
Teams managed
2023–	North Macedonia (assistant)
Medal record World Championship 2013 Serbia Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team 2011 Guadalajara Team 2019 Lima Team Pan American Championship 2007 Dominican Republic 2011 Brazil 2017 Argentina 2009 Chile South and Central American Championship 2018 Brazil

Eduarda Idalina "Duda" Amorim Taleska (born 23 September 1986) is a Brazilian-Hungarian former handball player. She played most of her career in Győr as a player of Győri ETO KC, for whom she won five editions of the EHF Champions League. Amorim also played for Brazil women's national handball team for 15 years, winning the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship.

She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2014^[2] by the International Handball Federation.^[3]

In an election made by the website Handball Planet was elected as the best player in the world of the 2010s, through the popular vote, Duda was considered the best defender of the last ten years.^[4] She is widely regarded as one of the best handball players of all time.