Juan Antonio "Juanín" García Lorenzana better known as Juanín García (born 28 August 1977) is a Spanish former

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. He retired in 2019 after playing for

CB Ademar León Abanca Ademar León is a Spanish handball team based in León, Spain. It plays in Liga ASOBAL. History Founded in 1956, Ademar León is the handball team of the city of León. Until 1975 it played in the provincial categories when not existi ...

. He is the all time top scorer in the Spanish

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with 2684 goals. He also has the second most matches in the league (628) behind

José Javier Hombrados José Javier Hombrados (born 7 April 1972) is a Spanish former handball player for Spain national team. He has the record for most appearances in the Spanish top division, Liga ASOBAL and the only player with more than 700 appeances. He is the ...

, and the most for any outfield player. With 822 goals he is also the all time top scorer on the Spanish national team. He was included in the 2004 World team of the year as the left wing.

Career

García's senior debut came for

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. Here, he won the 2000-01 Spanish championship, the 2001-02

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, the 1998/99

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 the 1998-99 and 2004-05

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. Eventually, he became the

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of the club. In 2015, he joined league rivals

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where he played for 9 years. Here he won the league in 2005-06, 2010-11, 2011-12, and 2013-14. He also won the 2006-07 and 2013-14 Copa Asobal, the 2013-14 Spanish Supercup and the 2010-11 EHF Champions League. In 2009/2010, he scored 13 goals in the

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, which is a record. It was, however, not enough to win as Kiel beat them 36:34. In 2014, he left Barcelona to join Naturhouse La Rioja. A year later, he returned to his original club, Ademar León. He retired after the 2018-19 season, at the age of 40 and became a youth coach at the club.

National team

García became world Champion with the Spanish team at the 2005 World Championship in Tunisia. The same year, he won the

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. At the 2006 European Championship, he won silver medals. At the 2007 World Championship, he and the Spanish team was knocked out in the quarterfinal by Germany, and finished 7th. He participated at the

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in Beijing, where The team won a bronze medal, defeating

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in the third place playoff. Juanín García was the top scorer of the tournament. At the 2011 World Championship, he won bronze medals. In a decision that would create much debate,

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, the Spanish head coach, decided to leave him of the selection for the

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Titles

Club

FC Barcelona

* 5

2005-2006, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14. * 4

2006-2007, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2013-14 * 5

Supercopa ASOBAL The Supercopa ASOBAL or the Supercopa de España de Balonmano was an annual cup competition for Spanish handball teams. It was organised by the Liga ASOBAL. It was first played for in 1985 and was disputed between the Liga ASOBAL champions and the ...

2006-07, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2012-13, 2013-14 * 5

2005-06, 2009-10, 2011-12), 2012-13, 2013-14 * 1

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 ...

2010-11 * 5

Pyrenean handball league Pirenees league (Catalan: Lliga dels Pirineus) is an international handball competition organized by the Catalan Federation of Handball and the Ligue Languedoc Roussillon. The teams are the best two of every federation. It was impulsed by the Catal ...

2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2009-10, 2010-11 * 2 Supercopa de Catalunya 2012, 2013 * 1

IHF Super Globe The Men's Super Globe is a 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 bal ...

2013

Ademar de León

* 2

1998-99, 2004-05 * 1

2000-01 * 1

2001-02 * 1

1998-99

References

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