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July 28, 1996, Atlanta (USA).
The Spanish Water Polo team has won against Croatia with a score of 7 to 5, thus winning an Olympic gold medal.
A final whistle that
would forever change the future of the members of the Spanish handball team
, and above all, would mark the starting point of one of the darkest episodes in the recent history of the Spanish monarchy.
With the victory in the final of the Water polo team came the euphoria and with the euphoria came a party.
A celebration in honor of the group of water polo players attended by the heads of the Spanish delegation at the Olympics, the Infanta Cristina and several athletes staying in the town of Atlanta.
Among them, a young unknown athlete outside the world of handball called
Iñaki Urdangarin whom the award-winning water polo player Jesús Rollán introduced to the princess.
A moment from which the changes in the history of Spain are well known: courtship between the Infanta and Urdangarin, royal wedding in Barcelona, idyllic family photos with Queen Sofía and King Juan Carios I,
business shenanigans
with Diego Torres, the explosion of the Noos case, the trial with accused Iñaki and the Infanta that forced to reformulate the definition of "Royal Family", Urdangarin entering and leaving prison and the recent announcement of their separation...
However, the bad luck that that Olympic gold in water polo brought to Urdangarin and the Royal Family is antagonistic to
the fortune that accompanied those who sweated the jersey of the handball team
with the former Duke of Palma.
Thanks to the courtship and subsequent royal liaison, Spanish handball began to gain unparalleled media attention and sponsorship in the late 1990s. A fame that, added to the two Olympic bronze medals (Atlanta 96 and Sydney 2000),
launched a generation of athletes
.
Players (now former players) to whom fortune has continued to smile, as LOC has learned.
This is how those men from the Urdangarin team
have triumphed in life
.
JAUME FORT
The goalkeeper of the Urdangarin generation is
a businessman and manager of sporting events
related to the world of
handball
.
He is president of the Catalan Handball Federation and executive director of the organizing committee of this discipline for women.
He previously traveled to Romania and Korea to work as a goalkeeper coach and even became deputy mayor in Cardedeu for the now defunct Convergencia i Unió.
JORDI NÚÑEZ CARRETERO
The national team goalkeeper also left handball in 2005 to enter the business world.
He currently
holds positions in six different companies
, according to the information available in the Mercantile Registry.
Some companies that work in sectors such as real estate, titling fund management, the sale of hotel establishments or the import and export of goods.
JOSE JAVIER SHOULDERED
The goalkeeper is also the most moonlit employee of his generation and the last to stop sweating his shirt on the pitch.
The announcement of his retirement came in June 2021. However, in recent years he has not dedicated himself exclusively to being an athlete.
He is president of the Madrid Handball Federation,
director of a master's degree in Representation of Artists and Athletes
, sports consultant and director of sports at Sek, one of the largest private educational institutions.
He has also studied three master's degrees at La Complutense, UCJL and the
University
of Barcelona.
TALANT DUKSHEBEV
Born in Frunte (now Bisek) at the time of the Soviet Union, Dujshebaev is the most international international of this batch of the national team.
Before sweating under the bicolor flag, he was international with Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and with his native USSR.
He is considered to be
one of the greatest handball players of all time
.
He hung up his shorts in 2002 and since then he has coached teams around Spain and around the world, managing some of his former teammates such as Hombrados, with whom he has a close relationship.
He currently trains the Polish team Vive Kielce with which he has won all the national leagues.
DEMETRIO LOZANO
The winger of the Urdangarín generation is the most studious of his group.
He has a
doctorate in physical activity and sports sciences
and has been a professor for almost a decade at San Jorge University.
He is also a teacher at the Royal Spanish Handball Federation and a regular contributor to the media such as the Marca newspaper.
MATTHEW GARRALDA
From sweating his shirt on the court to directing the game from the side with Quabit Guadalajara in 2012. Since then, he has managed teams in Puerto Rico and
Chile, a country where he has worked as the praised national coach
for more than seven years.
AITOR ETXABURU
Basque like Urdangarín, he left his career as an athlete in 2001 to become a coach.
He has
coached men's and women's teams
.
Among his achievements is the promotion with
il Capo Hondarribia Bidasoa
.
In addition, he is one of the usual technicians in the sports training campuses.
ALBERTO URDIALES.
He is one of the
usual faces of the Spanish Television channel Teledeporte
, where he regularly collaborates as a commentator and handball expert.
In addition, he is the coordinator of the technical area of the Royal Spanish Handball Federation.
RAFAEL GUIJOSA
He is one of the most traveled players of the Urdangarin generation and with a more eventful life.
He has trained in destinations as diverse as León and Iran, where he spent three years "in survival conditions" and managed to win a local league title.
Later
he arrived in Qatar where he has trained the Al Arabi team
, with which he managed to proclaim himself the winner of the league in 2020.
JUANCHO PEREZ
Currently Councilor for Sports, Youth and Citizen Participation in Badajoz.
He ran as
number 2 on the PP lists for the
2019 municipal elections and has been criticized by the PSOE for his management of the sports centers.
He balances his elected position with the presidency of the Pines BM handball team.
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