Juan "Juancho" Pérez Márquez (born 3 January 1974) 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 the

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 ...

Career

Juancho Pérez played from 1994 to 1996 for

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 ...

, where he won the 1996 Spanish championship, 1995 and 1996

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 ...

, 1995

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 ...

and the 1996

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 ...

. In 1996 he joined

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 ...

. Here he did however not win any titles. In 1998 he joined league rivals

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 2001 Spanish championship and the 2000 Copa ASOBAL and EHF Cup Winners' Cup In 2001 he joined

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 ( ...

, where he won the 2001

Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

and EHF Champions League, the 2002 Spanish championship, 2004 EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the 2005 Spanish Championship. He retired in 2009. After his playing days he became the president of the Spanish second tier side Badajoz Escubal, a club from Badajoz, the town, where Pérez was born. In 2011 he unretired to play for them.

National team

Juancho Pérez featured in the national team for more than a decade. His biggest achievement was winning the 2005 World Championship in Tunisia. 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, ...

, in the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

, 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 three matches and scored five goals. Four years later he won his second bronze medal with the Spanish handball team in the 2000 Olympic tournament. He played five matches and scored four goals. At the 2004 Games he was part of the Spanish team which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament. He played two matches and scored three goals. He also won silver medals four times at the

European championships A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

, at the

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

and 2006 European Championships. In the latter stages of his national team career he was however only third choice behind

Rolando Uríos Rolando Uríos Fonseca (born 27 January 1971) is a former handball player. Born in Cuba, he played for both the Cuba and the Spain national teams. He was considered one of the best pivots in the world in the first years of the 2000's. Uríos ...

and

Julen Aguinagalde Julen Aguinagalde Akizu (born 8 December 1982 in Irun, Spain) is a Basques, Basque Spanish retired handballer who played as a pivot for the Spain men's national handball team, Spanish national team. Career Aguinagalde started playing handball ...

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1974 births Living people Sportspeople from Badajoz Spanish male handball players Olympic handball players for Spain Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Spain CB Ademar León players SDC San Antonio players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics BM Valladolid players FC Barcelona Handbol players {{Spain-handball-bio-stub