Juan Pérez (handballer)

Juan "Juancho" Pérez Márquez (born 3 January 1974) is a Spanish handball player who won the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship.

Juancho Pérez
Personal information
Full name	Juan Pérez Márquez
Born	(1974-01-03) 3 January 1974 (age 51) Badajoz, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Height	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Pivot
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1994-1996	FC Barcelona
1996-2008	BM Valladolid
1998-2001	Ademar León
2001-2009	SDC San Antonio
2011-2012	Badajoz Escubal
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995-2007	Spain	203[1]	(228)
Medal record Summer Olympics 1996 Atlanta Team 2000 Sydney Team World Championship 2005 Tunisia European Championship 1996 Spain 1998 Italy 2006 Switzerland 2000 Croatia

Career

Juancho Pérez played from 1994 to 1996 for FC Barcelona, where he won the 1996 Spanish championship, 1995 and 1996 Copa ASOBAL, 1995 EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the 1996 EHF Champions League.

In 1996 he joined BM Valladolid. Here he did however not win any titles. In 1998 he joined league rivals Ademar León, where he won the 2001 Spanish championship and the 2000 Copa ASOBAL and EHF Cup Winners' Cup

In 2001 he joined SDC San Antonio,^[2] where he won the 2001 Copa del Rey and EHF Champions League, the 2002 Spanish championship, 2004 EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the 2005 Spanish Championship. He retired in 2009.^[3] After his playing days he became the president of the Spanish second tier side Badajoz Escubal, a club from Badajoz, the town, where Pérez was born. In 2011 he unretired to play for them.^[4]

National team

Juancho Pérez featured in the national team for more than a decade. His biggest achievement was winning the 2005 World Championship in Tunisia.

competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 1996 he won the bronze medal with the Spanish team. He played three matches and scored five goals.

Four years later he won his second bronze medal with the Spanish handball team in the 2000 Olympic tournament. He played five matches and scored four goals.

At the 2004 Games he was part of the Spanish team which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament. He played two matches and scored three goals.

He also won silver medals four times at the European championships, at the 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2006 European Championships.

In the latter stages of his national team career he was however only third choice behind Rolando Uríos and Julen Aguinagalde.

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