Daniel Sarmiento

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Daniel Sarmiento
Daniel Sarmiento

Daniel Sarmiento (2012)

Player information
Full name Daniel Sarmiento Melián
Nickname "Dani"
birthday August 25, 1983
place of birth Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain
citizenship SpaniardsSpaniards Spanish
height 1.86 m
Playing position Back center
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Saint-Raphaël Var Handball
Jersey number 11
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
0000- SpainSpain Las Palmas GC
Clubs as active
from ... to society
2000-2003 SpainSpain CBM Galdar
2003-2007 SpainSpain BM Ciudad de Almería
2007-2009 SpainSpain Ademar León
2009-2016 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
2016– FranceFrance Saint-Raphaël Var Handball
National team
  Games (goals)
SpainSpain Spain 114 (238)

As of August 16, 2020

Daniel Sarmiento Melián (born August 25, 1983 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain ) is a Spanish handball player .

Sarmiento, who plays handball for the French club Saint-Raphaël Var , is mostly used on the back center .

Career

Daniel Sarmiento started playing handball in his hometown. He later moved to the largest club on his home island, CBM Gáldar , for which he also made his debut in the ASOBAL league. However, when his club had to file for bankruptcy in 2003, Sarmiento moved to the mainland to BM Ciudad de Almería . He stayed there for four years before being signed to the top club Ademar León in 2007 . Scheduled to replace Claus Møller-Jakobsen , Sarmiento took responsibility when he was injured, but narrowly failed in the main round of the EHF Champions League at the German club THW Kiel . In 2009 Sarmiento moved to league rivals FC Barcelona . With Barcelona he won the championship in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 as well as the EHF Champions League in 2010/11 and 2014/15 . In 2013/14 he also won the Supercopa Asobal , the Copa ASOBAL and the Copa del Rey de Balonmano . Since the summer of 2016 he has been playing for the French first division club Saint-Raphaël Var Handball .

With the Spanish national team, Sarmiento became world champion in 2013 in his own country. He won bronze at the 2014 European Championships in Denmark . In 2018 and 2020 he was European champion with the Spanish team .

Web links

Commons : Dani Sarmiento  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Sarmiento moves from Galdar to Almería
  2. Sarmiento new in the León squad
  3. Estadísticas de jugadores / as de la selección
  4. handball-world.com: Sarmiento leaves Barcelona , accessed on November 4, 2015
  5. handball-world.news Handball European Championship compact: Spain defends the title - all results and goalscorers of the tournament in shorthand from January 26, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020