Daniel Sarmiento Melián
| Daniel Sarmiento Melián | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Sarmiento in 2017 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Born |
25 August 1983 Las Palmas, Spain | ||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Wisła Płock | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Team | |||
– | Las Palmas GC | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2000–2003 | Gáldar | ||
2003–2007 | Ciudad de Almería | ||
2007–2009 | Ademar León | ||
2009–2016 | FC Barcelona | ||
2016–2022 | Saint-Raphaël | ||
2022 | Wisła Płock | ||
2024- | Gáldar | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2022 | Spain | 147 | (283) |
Daniel Sarmiento Melián (born 25 August 1983) is a Spanish retired handballer, who last played for Wisła Płock and the Spanish national team.[1]
He was part of the Spanish team that won the world title on home soil in 2013.[2]
Career
Sarmiento started playing handball at his home town club. He later joined the biggest club on Gran Canaria, BM Gáldar, where he debuted in the Liga ASOBAL. In 2003, he joined Ciudad de Almería, after Gáldar had to declare bankruptcy. After four years, he joined Ademar León in 2007 to replace Claus Møller Jakobsen.
In 2009, he joined FC Barcelona. Here, he won the league title 6 times in a row from 2011 to 2016, as well as the EHF Champions League in 2010-11 and 2014-15.
In 2016, he joined French side Saint-Raphaël Var Handball.[3] After 6 years in France, he retired from professional handball.[4]
In August 2022, he unretired to join Polish team Wisła Płock to replace Niko Mindegía and Gergő Fazekas, who had left the club. He stayed until the end of the year.[5]
In 2024, he unretired for a second time to join Desatascos Jumbo Gáldar in the third tier of Spanish handball.[6]
National team
In 2013, he won the 2013 World Championship at home.[2] A year later, he won bronze medals at the 2014 European Championship in Denmark. At the 2018 and 2020 European Championships, he won gold medals with the Spanish team.[7] At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, he won bronze medals with the Spanish team.[8] At the 2022 European Championship, he won silver medals, playing 4 out of 9 games. Spain lost to Sweden in the final.[9]
References
- ^ "Daniel Sarmiento Melián Profile". European Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ^ a b "XI Men's European Championship 2013. Team Roster, Spain" (PDF). handball.sportresult.com. EHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- ^ "Sarmiento verlässt Barcelona" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ "Weltmeister, Europameister, Champions-League-Sieger: Daniel Sarmiento beendet seine Karriere" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
- ^ "Daniel Sarmiento Melián zawodnikiem Nafciarzy!" (in Polish). Wisła Płock. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ "Dani Sarmiento vuelve a las pistas para luchar por el ascenso con el Desatascos Jumbo Gáldar" (in Spanish). Club Balonmano Gáldar Gran Canaria. 27 November 2024. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Handball-EM kompakt: Spanien verteidigt den Titel - alle Ergebnisse und Torschützen des Turniers im Stenogramm" (in German). handball-world.news. 26 January 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Match Team Statistics: Germany vs. Spain" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Men's EHF Euro 2022: Spain". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 21 October 2022.