Rafael Guijosa

Rafael Guijosa

Player information
birthday	January 31, 1969
place of birth	Alcalá de Henares , Spain
citizenship	Spanish
height	1.82 m
Playing position	Left winger
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1989	CD Iplacea
1989-1993	BM Guadalajara
1993-1995	Juventud Alcalá
1995-2002	FC Barcelona
National team
	Games (goals)
Spain	119 (538)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2003-2009	BM Alcobendas
2011–?	BM Toledo
2013–?	Iran
2015-2019	Ademar León
As of April 23, 2019

Rafael Guijosa Castillo (born January 31, 1969 in Alcalá de Henares , Spain ) is a Spanish handball coach and former handball player who was voted World Handball Player of the Year 1999.

The 1.82 m tall and 75 kg heavy Guijosa came in 1989 from CD Iplacea to BM Guadalajara in the ASOBAL league . In 1993 he moved to Juventud Alcalá from his home district in Madrid. With the club he reached the final of the Copa del Rey in 1994 and played with the Madrilenians in the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1994/95 season before he switched to FC Barcelona-Cifec at the end of the season , where he was until his retirement in 2002 was active and with which he won numerous titles, including five times the EHF Champions League .

For the Spanish national handball team , he played a total of 119 international matches, in which he scored 538 goals. The left winger was among other things the second best goalscorer of the 1999 World Cup.

As a coach, he was responsible for the Spanish teams BM Alcobendas and BM Toledo as well as the Iranian national team, for example at the 2014 Asian Cup . From the 2015/16 season until April 2019, he coached Ademar León .

successes

A selection of Rafael Guijosa's successes

• World handball player of the year 1999
• 5 × EHF Champions League winners (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000)
• 4 × European Supercup (1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000)
• 3 × Spanish Supercup (1997, 1998 and 2000)
• 2 × Spanish cup winners (1996 and 2000)
• 5 × Spanish champions (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000)
• 3 × Royal Cup (1997, 1998 and 1900)
• Vice European Champion 1996 and 1998
• 4th place at the handball world championship 1999 and with 50 goals second in the scorers list
• Bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta
• Bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney
• Best left winger: WM 1999, OS 2000 and EM 2000

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.handball-world.com Alcobendas withdraws from the Liga Asobal on June 18, 2009.
2. ↑ www.handball-planet.com Rafael Guijosa take a job in BM Toledo from March 24, 2011 (English).
3. ↑ www.handball-world.com "Kult-Physio" Mori Azghandi in action at the 2014 Asian Games on January 8, 2014.
4. ↑ CV with his current employer BM Alcobendas
5. ↑ FCB MEMÒRIA 2001/2002 , p. 86 ( Memento of the original from July 26th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 3.55 MB) 
6. ↑ Máximas Alineaciones España ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Máximos Goleradores España ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ handball-world.news: Former world handball player future coach Leons , accessed on April 23, 2019.
9. ↑ handball-world.com: Ademar Leon separates from former world handball player , accessed on April 23, 2019.
10. ↑ Hand-Ball.org: Rafael Guijosa , accessed on September 24, 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.