Rodrigo Alonso Salinas Muñoz (born 25 February 1989) is a Chilean
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
Bidasoa Irún and the
Chilean national team.
He ranked second in the
2014 Pan American Men's Handball Championship's top goalscorers list.
Salinas reached third place with
BM Granollers
Club Balonmano Granollers, commonly known as BM Granollers, is a professional handball club based in Granollers, Spain.
History
The club was founded in 1944 and it is one of the oldest and most successful Spanish handball clubs in terms of t ...
in
the 2013/14 season of ASOBAL, being the leading scorer on the team with 128 goals.
His brother
Esteban Salinas also plays handball.
Achievements
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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 ...
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**''Bronze Medalist'':
2014
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División de Plata:
**''Silver Medalist'':
2011
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Copa del Rey de Balonmano
The Copa del Rey de Balonmano ( English: '' King's Cup of Handball'') is an annual cup competition for Spanish handball teams. Organized by the Liga ASOBAL. It was originally known as the ''Copa del Generalísimo'' and was renamed ''Copa de SM El ...
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**''Finalist'':
2014
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Pan American Handball Championship:
**''Bronze Medalist'': 2010, 2012, 2014
Individual awards
* All-Star Right Back of the Pan American Handball Championship:
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2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
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2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
* Top scorer of the
2016 World Olympic Qualification 1 with 20 goals.
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2020 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship
The 2020 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship was the first edition of the South and Central American Men's Handball Championship, held from 21 to 25 January 2020 in Brazil. It acted as the South and Central American qualifying t ...
: Best right back
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2022 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship
The 2022 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship was the second edition of the South and Central American Men's Handball Championship, held from 25 to 29 January 2022 in Recife, Brazil. It acted as the South and Central American qual ...
: Best right back
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Salinas Munoz, Rodrigo
1989 births
Sportspeople from Viña del Mar
Chilean male handball players
Living people
Liga ASOBAL players
CB Torrevieja players
BM Granollers players
CSA Steaua București (handball) players
Chilean expatriate sportspeople in France
Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Chilean expatriate handball players
Handball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
Handball players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Handball players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Handball players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Handball players at the 2023 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Chile
Pan American Games silver medalists in handball
Pan American Games bronze medalists in handball
South American Games bronze medalists for Chile
South American Games medalists in handball
Competitors at the 2018 South American Games
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
20th-century Chilean people
21st-century Chilean sportsmen
Expatriate handball players in France
Expatriate handball players in Spain
Expatriate handball players in Romania
CD Bidasoa Irun players