Victor Manuel Iturriza Álvarez (born 22 May 1990) is a Cuban-born Portuguese

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 ...

er who plays as pivot for

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional association footbal ...

and the Portuguese national team. In 2025, he was part of the Portugal team that reached the semifinals of the

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for the first time in history. They lost the semifinals to Denmark and the third place playoff to France.

Honours

;Porto * Portuguese League: 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 *

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: 2018–19, 2020–21 * Portuguese Super Cup: 2019, 2021

Individual awards

*All-Star pivot of the

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

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* * * * Portuguese male handball players 1990 births Sportspeople from Havana Living people FC Porto handball players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Cuban emigrants to Portugal Portuguese people of Cuban descent Olympic handball players for Portugal 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen {{Portugal-handball-bio-stub