2024-07-30 04:31:23
Isabel Piralkova and Elizabeth Omoregie may not be household names in Bulgaria, but they are at the Olympic Games.
Isabelle is the daughter of our great water polo player and then coach Svilen Piralkov, who has been living in Spain for years. He even coached the women’s national team and has an Olympic medal. His daughter made her debut in this forum with Spain and scored 3 goals in her first game.
The 27-year-old girl from Pleven with Nigerian roots, Elizabeth Omoregie, is the star of Slovenia in handball and scored 4 times in her first match.
Elizabeth Omoreghie was born on December 29, 1996 in Athens, but her family moved to Pleven when she started school. Her father, Taiwo Omoregie, is Nigerian, and her mother, Natalia Asenova, is Bulgarian, a former handball goalkeeper. He has two sisters – Mary and Rachel, and a brother Emmanuel.
Lisa has been training handball since the second grade and is the basis of all the successes of the Bulgarian national teams for girls in different ages.
Only at 18, she was left to take care of her younger sister and brother alone, as her parents worked abroad. In 2014, a misunderstanding with her then-club “Shoumen” led to the children being thrown out of the municipal apartment, which they used for BGN 100 rent. Moreover, shortly after Lisa was named MVP and best playmaker in the European edition of the “Challenge Trophies” in Larisa (Greece), where she led the Bulgarian team to first place.
In 2017, Elizabeth Omoregie acquired Slovenian citizenship and became part of the country’s national team, after previously playing for the local club “Krim Mercator”, with which she also achieved success in the Champions League in handball.
She represented Slovenia at two European Women’s Championships in 2020 and 2022, and now she is making her Olympic debut.