| Rafael Guijosa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Rafael Guijosa Castillo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1989-01-31) 31 January 1989 (age 35) Alcalá de Henares, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | left wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior clubs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CD Iplacea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989-1993 | BM Guadalajara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993-1995 | Juventud Alcalá | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995-2002 | FC Barcelona | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995-2002 | Spain | 119 | (518) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003-2009 | BM Alcobendas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Toledo BM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013-2014 | Iran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Samen Al-Hojaj Sabzewar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015-2019 | Ademar León | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020- | Al-Arabi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023-2024 | Rwanda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024- | Iran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rafael Guijosa Castillo (born 31 January 1969, in Alcalá de Henares) is a former Spanish handball player, and current manager of Iran men's national handball team. When playing for the Spanish national team, he won bronze medals both in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Guijosa was voted World Player of the Year 1999 by the International Handball Federation.
Career
Guijosa joined BM Guadalajara in the top Spanish league from CD Iplacea in 1989. In 1993 he joined Juventud Alcalá in Madrid. Here he reached the final of the Copa del Rey de Balonmano in 1994. The following summer he joined FC Barcelona, where he played until his retirement in 2002. With Barecelona he won many title, including the EHF Champions League 5 times.
At the 1999 World Championship he scored the second most goals.
Coaching career
His coaching career sparted with the Spanish teams BM Alcobendas and Toledo BM, before he became the head coach of Iran. Here he won bronze medals at the 2014 Asian Championships. For a short while he was the coach of Iranian club Samen Al-Hojaj Sabzewar, but since the Iranian team decided to ban dual coaching positions, he resigned from that position.
In 2015 he returned to club handball to coach Ademar León. Here he was until 2019.
In August 2020 he took over the Qatari team Al-Arabi SC, where he won the 2020 Qatari championship.
In December 2023 he became the head coach of Rwanda. Here he lead the team at their first ever African Championship in 2024, where the team finished 14th and won 1 match against Zambia. 10 months he left the position to return as the head coach of Iran.
References
- Profile: "Rafael Guijosa" Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 26, 2008)
- Previous World Handball Players Archived 2009-06-22 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on January 26, 2008)
- Archived (Date missing) at fundal.events-horizon.net (Error: unknown archive URL)
- Archived (Date missing) at fcbarcelona.com (Error: unknown archive URL)
- "Alcobendas zieht sich aus der Liga Asobal zurück" (in German). handball-world.com. 18 June 2009.
- "Rafael Guijosa take a job in BM Toledodate". handball-planet.com. 24 March 2011..
- ^ "Iranian coach Borut Macek – a well-known face in Arab handball". qatarhandball2015.com. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- "Ehemaliger Welthandballer zukünftiger Trainer Leons". handball-world.news. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- "Ademar Leon trennt sich von früherem Welthandballer" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- "Al-Arabi tog över tronen i Qatar" [Al-Arabi took over the throne in Qatar] (in Swedish). handbollskanalen.se. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- "Rafa Guijosa ayudará como asesor a la selección de Ruanda" (in Spanish). Marca. 26 December 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- "Guijosa vuelve al mando de la selección iraní"" [Guijosa returns to command the Iranian national team] (in Spanish). Marca. 24 September 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
External links
| IHF World Player of the Year – Men | |
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| Rankings before 1988: Ștefan Birtalan (1974, 1976, 1977) Best Player of All Time: Gheorghe Gruia (1992) Player of the 20th Century: Magnus Wislander (2000) IHF Best Player in History: Ivano Balić (2010) |
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