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Guia_Handbol_catala 20/11/08 17:24 Página 1 ■ català ......03 ■ castellano...99 ■ english ..195 INDEX 2007-08 REVIEW Calendars .............................................................2 2007-08 season review .....................................248 Team history .....................................................196 Club history.......................................................198 HISTORY Championships..................................................199 Previous games in Europe..................................254 Palau Blaugrana ................................................200 European games review .....................................262 ■ MANAGEMENT RETIRED NUMBERS Joan Laporta .....................................................201 Enric Masip .......................................................264 Jaume Ferrer .....................................................202 Iñaki Urdangarin ................................................265 Francesc Solanellas...........................................203 Joan Sagalés.....................................................266 Enric Masip .......................................................204 Oscar Grau........................................................267 Xavier O'Callaghan.............................................205 ■ TEAM EUROPEAN COMPETITIONS Manolo Cadenas ...............................................206 Games with most goals for.................................268 Xavier Pascual...................................................207 Games with least goals for.................................268 Kasper Hvidt .....................................................210 Games with least goals against..........................268 Jesper Noddesbo...............................................212 Games with most goals against..........................268 Juanín García ....................................................214 Biggest winning margins ....................................269 Victor Tomas .....................................................216 Biggest losing margins.......................................269 Ruben Garabaya ................................................218 Demetrio Lozano ...............................................220 SECTION INFORMATION Venio Losert......................................................222 Youth teams......................................................270 Christian Ugalde ................................................224 Summer camps .................................................271 David Barrufet ...................................................226 Schools program ...............................................272 Oualid Ben Amor................................................228 Media information .............................................273 Iker Romero ......................................................230 Key dates..........................................................273 Laszlo Nagy.......................................................232 ASOBAL teams information ................................274 Magnus Jernemyr ..............................................234 EHF Champions League team information ...........279 Joachim Boldsen ...............................................236 Barça TV and www.fcbarcelona.cat......................290 Mikkel Hansen ..................................................238 Albert Rocas .....................................................240 Director: Toni Ruiz Director: Toni Ruiz Subdirector: Oriol Bonsoms Joan Saubich.....................................................242 Deputy Director: Oriol Bonsoms Coordinación: Gustau Galvache Alvaro Ruíz ........................................................243 Coordination: Gustau Galvache Redacción: Departamento de Comunicación FCB Editors: FCB Communications Director ■ Fotografía: Alejandro García, Miguel Ruíz, arxiu FCB STAFF Photography: Alejandro García, Miguel Ruíz, arxiu FCB Edición lingüística: Lourdes Julià, Marina Àlamo, Josep Antoni Gutiérrez .......................................244 Linguistic edition: Lourdes Julià, Marina Àlamo, Óscar Broc i Sportslingua Sebastià Salas..................................................244 Óscar Broc i Sportslingua Producción: Difusión Ediciones, S.L. Empresa Periodística Production: Difusión Ediciones, S.L. Empresa Periodística Coordinación: Toni Civis Toni Rubiella......................................................245 Coordination: Toni Civis Diseño gràfico y maquetación: Geuve comunicació gràfica Salvador Canals ................................................245 Grafic design and set up: Geuve comunicació gràfica Depósito legal: B-4844 2007 Milan Kalina ......................................................246 Legal deposit: B-52.088-2008 ISBN-13: 978-84-611-5471-5 // Impresión: SPAWN LEVEL, S.L. Handball section................................................247 Press: SPAWN LEVEL, S.L. fcbarcelona borges // www.fcbarcelona.cat guia de premsa 195 History of the HANDBALL section The handball section was officially founded on November 29, 1942, alt- hough there are referen- ces to friendly games played by Barça in the thirties. This sport was originally pla- winning no fewer than five European Cups in a row, Dream Team drew to a close. The vacancy left by Rivera yed by eleven players on full- something no team had ever done before. To top it all was filled Xesco Espar, while Masip and O'Callaghan size football fields, and it was not until the fifties that off, Barça also won four consecutive European Super stayed at the club in administrative roles. But despite the game was played as it is today, by teams of seven teams, and also the consolidation of the new form of Cups. the major changes, the success continued. Led by cap- players on indoor courts. handball. And although the seventies was a decade ■ Goodbye to the 'Dream team' and a new tain David Barrufet, a survivor of the Dream Team, and ■ Success at 11-a-side game dominated by Granollers, Calpisa and Atlético Madrid, model with new players of such class as Nagy, Skrbic and Iker The handball team soon found success. They won when Barça only managed two cups and a league, the In the 2003-2004 season, Valero Rivera stepped Romero, the new model has continued to bear success. the double of the Catalan and Spanish Championships section was growing, and was on the verge of its most down as coach, along with one of the greatest handball The seventh Champions League, the Asobal League title for three seasons in a row in the mid forties. And two successful period ever. players of all time, Enric Masip. When Urdangarín, in 2006, the Copa del Rey in 2007, the Super Cup in further doubles were won in 1949 and 1951. In the ■ The golden age begins Guijosa, Ortega, Xepkin and O'Callaghan, among 2007 and the Pyrenees League in 2007, are all testi- 1950s, Barça’s handball team would win one more The eighties began with two League titles and one others, moved on too, the unrepeatable days of the mony of that. Spanish and four more Catalan Championships. Copa del Rey, which coincided with the arrival of Valero ■ Consolidation of the modern game Rivera as head coach in 1984. Rivera would lead the The earliest successes at the indoor seven-a-side team to more titles than ever before, and for two ama- variant did not come until the late sixties, with Barça’s zing decades Barça collected silverware not just in first league, and a cup win in 1971. The Palau Spain, but in Europe too. FC Barcelona came to domi- Blaugrana was constructed shortly after, and provided a nate Spanish handball, winning five consecutive league bigger and better home for Barça’s indoor sports titles from 1987 to 1992 and another five from 1995 to 2000, as well as collecting nine Cup titles up to the year 2000. ■ All conquering in Europe Barça ruled supreme in Spain, and that dominance was spread into European competitions as well. Led by Serrano and Sagalés, three consecutive Cup Winners Cups were won in 83/84, 84/85 and 85/86. Then, Barça won its first European Cup in 1991, followed by two consecutive Cup Winners Cups in 93/94 and 94/95. But this was just the start of it. From 1996 to 2000, Valero Rivera’s team set an amazing record by 196 guia de premsa fcbarcelona borges // www.fcbarcelona.cat history of the section history of the section fcbarcelona borges // www.fcbarcelona.cat guia de premsa 197 remain the two European Cups won at Wembley (1992) History of and the Stade de France (2006). Honours the CLUB Apart from winning Europe’s premier club competi- tion, Barça also has the honour of being the only team ■ 6 Spanish Championships (eleven-a-side) Barça has become, for millions of people all around to have appeared in every single edition of European 1944/45, 1945/46, 1946/47, 1948/49, 1950/51 y 1956/57 the world, a symbol of their identity, and not just in club competitions since they were first created back in a sporting sense, but also in terms of society, poli- 1955. Barcelona's many achievements in Europe inclu- ■ 10 Catalonian Championships (eleven-a-side) tics and culture. Throughout the most difficult of de being considered 'King of the Cup Winners Cup', 1943/44, 1944/45, 1945/46, 1946/47, 1948/49, 1950/51, 1953/54, 1954/55, 1956/57 and 1957/58 times, Barça was the standard that represented having won that title a record four times. Catalonia and the Catalan people's desire for free- In addition, FC Barcelona also won three Fairs Cups ■ 17 Asobal Leagues (the tournament now known as 1968/69, 1972/73, 1979/80, 1981/82, 1985/86,