Julen Aguinagalde

Julen Aguinagalde

Julen Aguinagalde at the Sparkassen-Cup 2013
Player information
Full name	Julen Aguinagalde Aquizu
birthday	December 8, 1982
place of birth	Irún , Spain
citizenship	Spanish
height	1.95 m
Playing position	Circular rotor
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	KS Kielce
Jersey number	13
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1999-2006	Bidasoa Irun
2006-2009	Ademar León
2009-2011	BM Ciudad Real
2011-2013	Atlético Madrid
2013–	KS Kielce
National team
	Games (goals)
Spain	191 (463)
As of February 2, 2020

Julen Aguinagalde Aquizu (born December 8, 1982 in Irún , Gipuzkoa ) is a Spanish handball player . Aguinagalde, who plays for the Polish club KS Kielce and plays for the Spanish national team, plays the position of the circuit . He is 1.95 m tall and weighs 110 kg.

Career

Julen Aguinagalde is a cyclist

Julen Aguinagalde started playing handball in his hometown. He also made his debut in 1999 in the Spanish ASOBAL league for the local first division club Bidasoa Irún . However, Aguinagalde never succeeded in building on the glorious times of the 1990s with his club. In 2006 he finally signed a contract with the top club Ademar León . With this he moved into the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2007 , but was defeated by the German HSV Hamburg . In the 2008/09 season he won the Copa ASOBAL with León , before moving to league rivals BM Ciudad Real in summer 2009 , with whom he won the Spanish championship in 2010 and the Spanish Cup in 2011 and in 2011 and 2012 (with the successor team Atlético Madrid) won the Copa ASOBAL. In the summer of 2013, he moved to the Polish first division club KS Kielce , with whom he won the championship in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, the trophy in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and the EHF Champions League in 2016 . He will return to Bidasoa Irún in summer 2020.

Julen Aguinagalde has so far played 191 international matches for the Spanish national team , in which he scored 463 goals. At the European Handball Championship in Norway in 2008 , he replaced the injured Rolando Uríos , but retired with Spain after the main round. At the handball world championship 2011 he was third with the Spanish team, at the handball European championship 2012 fourth. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Spain lost to eventual winners France in the quarter-finals, but Aguinagalde was elected to the All-Star team. His biggest success Aguinagalde as with the Spanish team in their own country he carried a 35 2013: 19 final victory over Denmark world champion was. Here, too, he was on the All-Star Team. At the European Championships in 2014 , he was voted third with Spain and again as the best runner in the All-Star team. In 2018 and 2020 he was European champion with the Spanish team .

successes

society

• Spanish champion 2011
• Spanish Cup Winner (Copa del Rey) 2011
• Copa ASOBAL 2009 and 2012
• Polish champion 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• Polish Cup Winner 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
• EHF Champions League 2016

National team

• World Champion 2013
• European champions 2018 and 2020
• Bronze at the 2011 World Championships and 2014 European Championships
• All-Star-Team Olympic Games 2012 , World Cup 2013 , EM 2014

Web links

Commons : Julen Aguinagalde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Julen Aguinagalde in the database of the European Cup
• Julen Aguinagalde in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Estadísticas de jugadores / as de la selección
2. ↑ kielcehandball.pl: Julen Aguinagalde zawodnikiem VTK! , accessed April 18, 2018
3. ↑ handball-world.news: Julen Aguinagalde is leaving Kielce at the end of the season , accessed on November 29, 2019
4. ↑ 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