Mateo Garralda

Mateo Garralda

Player information
Full name	Mateo Jesús Garralda Larumbe
birthday	1st December 1969 (age 50)
place of birth	Burlada , Spain
citizenship	Spanish
height	1.96 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Chile
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1986	BM Burlada
1986-1988	BM Granollers
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1988-1991	BM Granollers
1991-1992	Atlético Madrid
1992-1994	Teka Cantabria
1994-1999	FC Barcelona
1999-2006	Portland San Antonio
2006-2008	Ademar León
2008-2011	KIF Kolding
2011–2012	AD Ciudad de Guadalajara
National team
Debut on	August 1st, 1988 in Santander
against	Switzerland
	Games (goals)
Spain	233 (593)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2012-2014	AD Ciudad de Guadalajara
2014-2015	Știința Municipal Dedeman Bacau
2015–8 / 2015	Puerto Rico
1 / 2016–	Chile
As of April 13, 2020

Mateo Jesús Garralda Larumbe (born December 1, 1969 in Burlada , Spain ) is a Spanish handball coach who was active as a handball player until 2012 . He is 1.96 m tall and weighs 102 kg.

Mateo Garralda started playing handball in his hometown of Burlada. He played his first league games in the Spanish ASOBAL league for BM Granollers before moving to Atlético Madrid in 1991. After just one year he moved on to Teka Cantabria , where he won the Spanish Championship , the Spanish Supercup and the EHF Cup in 1993, the Spanish Championship and the EHF Champions League in 1994 , the Copa ASOBAL and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1995 and again the Spanish championship , Copa ASOBAL and European club championships. With these recommendations, he signed on to record champions FC Barcelona in 1996 . With the Catalans he won the Spanish championship , the Copa del Rey de Balonmano , the Spanish Supercup, the EHF Champions League and the European Club Championship in 1997 and 1998, as well as the Spanish championship and the EHF Champions League in 1999 . In 1999, after a dispute with his coach, he moved to Portland San Antonio , where he won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Club Championship in 2000, the Copa del Rey de Balonmano and the EHF Champions League in 2001 and the Spanish championship in 2002 and 2005 . In 2006 - at the age of 37 - he went to Ademar León again . In 2008 he moved to the Danish first division club KIF Kolding, with whom he won the championship in 2009. From 2011 he played for the Spanish first division club AD Ciudad de Guadalajara . A year later, Garralda ended his career and took over as coach of Guadalajara.

Garralda has been the coach of the Chilean national team since January 2016 .

Mateo Garralda has made 233 international appearances for the Spanish national team . He won bronze at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2000 European Championships, silver at the 1996, 1998 and 2006 European Championships, and gold at the 2005 World Cup . At the 2007 World Cup in Germany , he was eliminated with Spain in the quarter-finals against Germany and only finished in 7th place.

Garralda was a record player and until May 16, 2011 was the record scorer in the Spanish league ASOBAL . Like José Javier Hombrados , Michail Iwanowitsch Jakimowitsch and Siarhei Rutenka , he won the EHF Champions League with three different clubs.

In recognition of his sporting career and his services to Spanish sport, he received the Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo on October 29, 2013 .

Web links

• Mateo Garralda on the side of BM Guadalajara (Spanish)
• European Cup statistics on www.eurohandball.com (English)
• Mateo Garralda in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rfebm.com: Estadísticas de jugadores / as de la selección (page 7, Spanish), accessed on April 13, 2020
2. ↑ asobal.es: Garralda recibe la Real Orden al Mérito Deportivo of October 30, 2013, accessed on April 13, 2020