José Javier Hombrados (born 7 April 1972) 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 for Spain national team. He has the record for most appearances in the Spanish top division,

Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990. The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of ...

and the only player with more than 700 appeances. He is the only goalkeeper to have won the

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 ...

with three different clubs.

Career

Hombrados began playing handball at BM Safa in Barcelona. His first league game was for

Atlético Madrid Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), commonly referred to as Atlético Madrid or simply Atlético, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid that plays in La Liga. The club play their home game ...

. In 1991, he reached the final of the Cope del Rey. In 1993, he joined

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. Here he won the Spanish Championship in 1994 and the

and Copa del Rey in 1995. He then played for a short while for

SD Teucro Sociedad Deportiva Teucro is a team handball, handball team based in Pontevedra, Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in Spain. SD Teucro currently plays (2015–16 season) in Liga ASOBAL. For sponsorship reasons the club has previously been known as ''Teu ...

before joining

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. Here, he won the

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

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. In 2000, 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 2000-01 EHF Champions League, the

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and the Copa del Rey in his first season and the Spanish league in his second. He then joined

BM Ciudad Real Balonmano Ciudad Real was a Spanish handball team based in Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha. BM Ciudad Real played in Liga ASOBAL. History In July 1983 is founded in the city of Ciudad Real a handball club named Asociación Deportiva Cultural ...

where he played until 2013, the last two of which under the

license. In 2013 he played for the Qatari club Qatari Al Sadd at the 2013 IHF Super Globe. After Qatar, he signed for German club

HSG Wetzlar HSG Wetzlar is a professional handball club from Wetzlar, Germany. It competes in the top-tier Handball-Bundesliga and in the DHB-Pokal, German Handball Cup. They have played in the Bundesliga since 1998 without relegation. History The modern ...

. In 2015, he joined

BM Guadalajara Asociación Deportiva Ciudad de Guadalajara, also known as BM Guadalajara, is a Spanish Team handball, handball team based in Guadalajara, Spain, Guadalajara, that plays in the Liga ASOBAL. History The club was founded in 2007 and managed to ...

. He retired after the 2020-21 season at the age of 49, after 29 seasons and 770 games. During his career, Hombrados' shirt number was equivalent to his age at the start of that particular season.

Trophies

: 4 ** 1994, 2002, 2004 and 2007 *

: 4 ** 1994, 2001, 2006 and 2008 *

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: 2 ** 1999 and 2003 *

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 ...

: 4 ** 1996, 2002, 2003 and 2008 *

: 6 ** 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 * Handball World Championship: 1 ** 2005 * Handball European Championship: 1 ** 1996 * European Super Cup: 3 ** 2001, 2006 and 2007 * Spanish Super Cup: 2 ** 2005 and 2008

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(archived) * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hombrados, Jose Javier 1972 births Living people Spanish male handball players Liga ASOBAL players Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Spain Olympic bronze medalists for Spain BM Ciudad Real players SDC San Antonio players HSG Wetzlar players CB Ademar León players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games Goodwill Games medalists in handball Handball players from the Community of Madrid Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Qatar Spanish expatriate handball players in Germany Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in handball