Borja Vidal Fernández Fernández (born 25 December 1981) is a Spanish-Qatari
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 for
Al-Qiyada and the
Qatari national team.
He formerly played professionally
basketball
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in Spain until 2005, when he changed to handball.
In 2013, Fernández got the
Qatar
Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land b ...
i passport for playing with their
national team
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The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...
.
He competed in
handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics
The handball tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held from 6 to 21 August at the Future Arena in the Barra Olympic Park. The tournaments were won by Denmark in the men's competition and Russia for the women's tourname ...
.
Club career as basketball player
*1999–2001
Joventut Badalona
Club Joventut Badalona, S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional basketball club based in Badalona, Catalonia, Spain, playing in the Liga ACB and the EuroCup. Known to their fans as ''La Penya'' (in English, ''The Club''), it is one of only two team ...
(
Spain 4th and
Spain 1st)
*2001–2002
Club Melilla Baloncesto
Club Melilla Baloncesto is a professional basketball team based in Melilla that plays in the LEB league. This is the only team in Spain that played all LEB seasons.
The team's home arena is the Pabellón Javier Imbroda Ortiz (formerly known as ...
(
Spain 2nd)
*2002–2003
Bilbao Basket
Club Basket Bilbao Berri Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D., commonly known as Bilbao Basket (), also known as Surne Bilbao Basket for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Bilbao, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. T ...
(Spain 2nd)
*2003–2004
Basket Napoli Napoli Basket may refer to:
* Napoli Basket (2016)
Napoli Basket, known for sponsorship reasons as GeVi Napoli, is an Italian professional basketball team of the city of Naples. It's the ''de facto'' successor of the Basket Napoli which was diss ...
(
Italy 1st)
*2004–2005
CAI Zaragoza
Basket Zaragoza 2002 S.A.D., more commonly referred to as Basket Zaragoza and as Casademont Zaragoza for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Zaragoza, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the FIBA Europe Cup. ...
(Spain 2nd)
Gallery
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References
External links
Basketball profile at ACB.com*
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1981 births
Living people
Spanish male handball players
Spanish men's basketball players
Liga ACB players
Joventut Badalona players
Melilla Baloncesto players
Bilbao Basket players
Basket Zaragoza players
People from Valdés, Asturias
Sportspeople from Asturias
Naturalized citizens of Qatar
Asian Games medalists in handball
Handball players at the 2014 Asian Games
Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Qatari male handball players
Olympic handball players for Qatar
Asian Games gold medalists for Qatar
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Naturalised sports competitors
Naturalised handball players
BM Aragón players
Spanish expatriate basketball people in Italy
Spanish expatriate handball players in France
HBC Nantes players
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
S.S. Basket Napoli players
21st-century Spanish sportsmen
21st-century Qatari sportsmen