Macarena Aguilar

Macarena Aguilar

Macarena Aguilar throwing a goal
Player information
Full name	Macarena Aguilar Díaz
birthday	March 12, 1985
place of birth	Bolaños de Calatrava , Spain
citizenship	Spanish
height	1.70 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2009	Parc Sagunto
2009–2012	SD Itxako
2012-2014	Randers HK
2014-2015	Győri ETO KC
2015-2015	GK Rostov-on-Don
2015-2016	Siófok KC
2016-2018	Thuringian HC
National team
	Games (goals)
Spain	240 (638)
As of October 13, 2018

Macarena Aguilar Díaz (born March 12, 1985 in Bolaños de Calatrava ) is a former Spanish handball player .

Career

Aguilar initially played for the Spanish club Astroc Sagunto , with whom she won the championship in 2005 and the cup in 2008. In 2009 she signed a contract with SD Itxako . With Itxako, the backcourt player won the championship and the cup in 2010, 2011 and 2012. In 2011 she was also in the final of the EHF Champions League . In the summer of 2012 she moved to the Danish first division club Randers HK . In her first season in Randers, Aguilar fell twice due to injuries, which meant that she had to pause most of the games. In September 2012 she suffered a neck injury and from December 2012 she fell out due to a fatigue fracture in her left foot. In the 2014/15 season she played for the Hungarian first division club Győri ETO KC . With Győr she won the Hungarian Cup in 2015. From the summer of 2015, Aguilar was under contract with the Russian first division club GK Rostov-on-Don , but in September 2015 she moved to the Hungarian club Siófok KC . From the 2016/17 season she was under contract with the German club Thuringian HC . With the Thuringian HC she won the German championship in 2018. Then she ended her career.

Aguilar played 240 caps for the Spanish national team , in which she scored 638 goals. With Spain she moved into the final of the European Championship 2008 , which Norway won with 34:21. In 2011 she was part of the Spanish squad at the World Cup in Brazil , which won the bronze medal. A year later, Aguilar took part in the Olympic Games in London , where she also won the bronze medal. In 2014 she won the silver medal at the European Championships. She also took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

successes

• Spanish champion 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Spanish cup winner 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Hungarian cup winner 2015
• German champion 2018
• Bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics
• Bronze medal at the 2011 World Cup
• Vice European Champion 2008, 2014

Web links

Commons : Macarena Aguilar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Macarena Aguilar in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Macarena Aguilar in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rfebm.com: Estadísticas de jugadores / as de la selección , accessed on August 4, 2018
2. ↑ www.ehfcl.com: Itxako sign Macarena Aguilar , accessed on July 5, 2013
3. ↑ www.handball-planet.com: Macarena Aguilar joins Randers! , accessed July 5, 2013
4. ↑ www.dr.dk: Randers-playmaker slipper med skrækken , accessed on July 5, 2013
5. ↑ www.hbold.dk: Spansk EM-profil skadet ( Memento from June 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 5, 2013
6. ↑ www.handball-world.com: CL winner Györ continues to upgrade , accessed on May 22, 2014
7. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Rostov with another transfer from Györ , accessed on April 23, 2015
8. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Aguilar back in Hungary , accessed on September 15, 2015
9. ↑ handball-world.com: New signing for Thuringian HC: Spanish Olympic participant is coming , from August 18, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2016
10. ↑ ehfcl.com: Newcomers could give THC the edge , October 1, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018
11. ↑ www.ehf-euro.com: Match Report: Norway vs. Spain ( Memento of October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed July 5, 2013
12. ↑ www.ihf.info: Match Report: Denmark vs. Spain (PDF; 27 kB), accessed on July 5, 2013