Fernando Hernández Casado (born 24 February 1973) is a Spanish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player who won

2005 World Men's Handball Championship The 2005 World Men's Handball Championship was the 19th team handball World Championship. It was played in Tunisia from 23 January to 6 February 2005. The winner of the gold medal was Spain, Croatia took silver and France won the bronze. Venu ...

. He also the competed in the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

and in the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

. In 1996, he won the bronze medal with the Spanish team. He played one match and scored three goals. Eight years later, he was a member of the Spanish handball team which finished seventh in the 2004 Olympic tournament. He played all eight matches and scored 15 goals.

Career

Hernández started playing handball at the club La Salle in his hometown, Valladolid. Here, he won the Spanish youth championship in 1989. In 1992, he made his senior debut for

BM Valladolid Club Balonmano Valladolid was a Spanish handball team based in Valladolid, Castilla and León. History Club Balonmano Valladolid was founded in the 1991 summer when acquired the ACD Michelin' seat. Michelin was founded in 1975 by the own company ...

in the top Spanish league,

Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990. The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of ...

. In 1996 he joined

Ademar León Ademar is a masculine Germanic name, ultimately derived from ''Audamar'', as is the German form Otmar. It was in use in medieval France, Latinized as ''Adamarus'' or ''Ademarus'', and in modern times has been popular in French, Spanish and Portug ...

, where he won the

Copa ASOBAL The Copa ASOBAL is an annual handball cup competition for Liga ASOBAL teams. It was first played for in 1990 and is contested by the top four teams at the end of the first half of the Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball ...

and

EHF Cup Winners' Cup The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocea ...

in 2000. The following summer, he joined

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

. Here he won the Copa ASOBAL and Spanish Supercup, the 2002 Copa ASOBAL, the 2003 Spanish league and

EHF European League The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

, the 2004 Copa del Rey, Spanish Supercup and

EHF Men's Champions Trophy The EHF Champions Trophy (named IHF Supercup between 1979 and 1983, named EHF Supercup between 1996 and 2007) was an official annual club competition of the European Handball Federation, that was contested until 2008. History Regarded as one of ...

, the 2005

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 ...

, the 2006 Spanish league and in his last season at the club in 2007 the Spanish Supercup. In 2007, the team did however only finish 4th in the league, which made the club leadership completely change the squad. So Hernández left, together with Albert Rocas, to

SDC San Antonio Sociedad Deportiva Cultural San Antonio was a Spanish handball team based in Pamplona, Navarra. In July 2012, the team resigned from the Liga ASOBAL for the 2012–13 season due to the failure to find a new sponsor, being demoted two divisions ( ...

. In 2010, he joined BM Badajoz in the second tier, before returning to BM Valladolid. In 2014, the club was dissolved and recreated as BM Atlético Valladolid. He chose to stay and followed the club down to the second division under a new name. With 617 league games, he has had the third most

appearances behind Juanín García (628) and José Javier Hombrados (767).

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1973 births Living people Spanish male handball players Olympic handball players for Spain Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Spain Liga ASOBAL players CB Ademar León players BM Valladolid players SDC San Antonio players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics FC Barcelona Handbol players Sportspeople from Valladolid {{Spain-handball-bio-stub