Daniel Fernández (handballer)

Daniel Fernández
Personal information
Full name Daniel Fernández Jiménez
Born (2001-03-28) 28 March 2001 (age 23)
Sabadell, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Left wing
Club information
Current club TVB Stuttgart
Number 6
Senior clubs
Years Team
2017–2020
 FC Barcelona B
2020–2022
 CB Cangas
2022–
 TVB Stuttgart
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2021–
 Spain 32 (101)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Poland/Sweden
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Oran Team

Daniel Fernández Jiménez[1][a] (born 28 March 2001) is a Spanish handball player who plays for TVB Stuttgart and the Spanish national team.

Club career

From the 2017/18 season, Fernández played in the second team of FC Barcelona in the second Spanish league. For the 2020/21 season, the Spanish first division club Frigoríficos Morrazo signed him.[2] For the team from Cangas, the left winger scored 130 goals in 34 games in his first season and was voted into the league's All-Star team.[2] In the 2021/22 season, he improved his rate to 147 goals in 30 appearances and was again named the best left winger.[3]

For the 2022/23 season, Fernández signed a three-year contract with the German Bundesliga club TVB Stuttgart, which was coached by his former coach in Barcelona, Roi Sánchez.[2] He signed a contract with FC Barcelona in March 2024 for the 2025/2026 season.[4]

International career

Fernández made his debut for the Spanish senior national team on 4 November 2021, in 33–29 win against Romania.[5] At the 2022 Mediterranean Games, he won the gold medal with Spain.[5] He took part in a World Championship for the first time in January 2023 in Poland and Sweden.[6] He won the bronze medal with the Spanish squad in the 2023 World Championship.

By January 2024, Tarrafeta had played 31 international matches, in which he scored 101 goals.[5]

Honours

  • All-Star left wing of the Olympic Games: 2024[7]

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is Jiménez.

References

  1. ^ "UAB students to participate in the Olympic Games Paris 2024". UAB.cat. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 19 July 2024. There will also be two students in the Olympic Games Paris in the handball team: Ian Tarrafeta Serrano (Political Science and Public Management) and Daniel Fernández Jiménez (Physiotherapy).
  2. ^ a b c "TVB Stuttgart verpflichtet besten Linksaußen der Liga Asobal". handball-world.news. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Presentamos el Equipo Ideal de la Liga Sacyr ASOBAL 2021/2022". Liga ASOBAL (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Viktor Hallgrimsson y Dani Fernandez refuerzos del Barça para 2025". www.mibalonmano.com. 27 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "DANIEL FERNANDEZ JIMENEZ". www.rfebm.com.
  6. ^ "Los ocho debutantes de España serán nueve". as.com. 15 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Paris 2024 Men's All-Star team revealed". ihf.info. IHF. 11 August 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.