Diego Simonet

Diego Simonet

Diego Simonet (2014)
Player information
Full name	Diego Esteban Simonet
birthday	December 26, 1989
place of birth	Buenos Aires , Argentina
citizenship	argentinian
height	1.89 m
Playing position	Back center
Club information
society	Montpellier handball
Jersey number	4th
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2007	Sociedad Alemana de Villa Ballester
2007-2009	Sao Caetano HC
2009-2011	CB Torrevieja
2011-2013	US Ivry HB
2013–	Montpellier handball
National team
Debut on	2010
	Games (goals)
Argentina	99 (307)
As of April 18, 2020

Diego Esteban Simonet (born December 26, 1989 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is an Argentine handball player .

Life

Diego Simonet is the son of Luis Simonet and Alicia Formen. He started his handball career at Sociedad Alemana de Villa Ballester. In 2008 he moved to Sao Caetano HC in Brazil. From 2009 to 2011 he was under contract with the Spanish first division handball club CB Torrevieja . Simonet lives in France and from 2011 played together with his brother Sebastián Simonet for US Ivry HB . On July 1, 2013 he moved within the French league to Montpellier Handball . With the record champions, he won the league cup in 2014 and 2016, won the French cup in 2016, won the EHF Champions League in 2018 and reached the final of the EHF Europa Pokal 2013/14 in Berlin , where he lost to Pick Szeged .

Simonet has been active in the Argentine national handball team since 2010 . He also played for Argentina at the London 2012 Summer Olympics . In 2012 and 2014 he won the Pan American Championship with Argentina . At the 2013 World Cup he played with his brothers Sebastián and Pablo . He also won the gold medal at the 16th Pan American Games in Guadalajara and the silver medal at the 17th Pan American Games in Toronto .

Web links

Commons : Diego Simonet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Diego Simonet in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Diego Simonet on the Montpellier AHB website (French)
• Diego Simonet in the LNH database (French)
• Diego Simonet in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presencias y Goleo - Selecciones Adultas Femenina y Masculina. handballargentina.org, July 18, 2019, accessed April 18, 2020 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ Diego Simonet, la joven figura del handball argentino , accessed on January 11, 2014
3. ↑ Diego and Sebastian Simonet in French Ivry , accessed January 11, 2014
4. ↑ Les frères Simonet arrivent à Ivry , accessed on January 11, 2014
5. ↑ Diego Simonet to replace Karabatic in Montpellier , accessed June 4, 2013
6. ↑ BBC Sport Olympics Diego Esteban Simonet , accessed January 11, 2014
7. ↑ ¡¡¡ARGENTINA CAMPEÓN PANAMERICANO !!! , accessed May 3, 2013
8. ↑ handball-world.com: Brothers trio with German opponent complete: Sebastian Simonet in the Argentine squad from January 15, 2013
9. ↑ results.toronto2015.org: Diego Simonet , accessed September 3, 2016