Carlos Pérez (born 26 August 1971 in

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player, who played for Veszprém KC and both the Hungarian national team and the Cuba national team. With Cuba he won the 1998 Pan American Championship. He was the top scorer at the tournament.

Career

He was born in Havana and spent his Cuban years by local team Ciudad Havana. He signed to Hungarian top club MKB Veszprém KC in 1997 and since then spent all the seasons with the club. He obtained Hungarian citizenship in 1999 and made his debut for the national team in 2002 against

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. He represented Hungary at the 2003 World Championship, where he showed his exceptional shooting skills and finished first on the goalscoring charts with 64 goals. He has also been selected to the All-Star team. He participated in the

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a year later and finished fourth. Despite his good performances he had to wait seven years to appear on another major tournament, this time the 2011 World Championship. As he was permitted by his club to play on three games only, Hungarian head coach Lajos Mocsai saved him for the most important matches, and he was a late call-up to replace Péter Gulyás in the squad. He was part of the

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Hungarian squad that finished fourth. He was voted

Hungarian Handballer of the Year The Hungarian Handballer of the Year award is an annual prize, which is given to the Hungarian handballer who is considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. Presented by the Hungarian Handball Federation since 1964, the ...

three times in a row between 2003–2005, and won the award once again in 2011.

Achievements

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

: **''Winner'': 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 **''Silver Medalist'': 2000, 2007 *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

: **''Winner'': 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 **''Finalist'': 2006, 2008 *

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

: **''Finalist'': 2002 **''Semifinalist'': 2003, 2006 *

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: **''Winner'': 2008 * EHF Champions Trophy: **''Finalist'': 2002, 2008

Individual awards

: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2011 * Top Scorer of the

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: 2003 * All-Star Left Back of the World Championship (

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) * Golden Cross of the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2012) * MOB Fair Play Award, (2014)

References

External links

Carlos Pérez player profile on MKB Veszprém KC official website

Carlos Pérez career statistics at Worldhandball
{{DEFAULTSORT:Perez, Carlos 1971 births Living people Cuban emigrants Immigrants to Hungary Sportspeople from Havana Hungarian male handball players Cuban male handball players Olympic handball players for Hungary Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Naturalized citizens of Hungary Naturalised handball players Cuban expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Expatriate handball players in Hungary Cuban handball coaches Hungarian handball coaches Cuban expatriate sportspeople in Qatar Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar