Chema Rodríguez (handballer)
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Full name | José María Rodríguez Vaquero | ||||||||||||||||
Born |
Palencia, Spain | 5 January 1980||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Centre back | ||||||||||||||||
Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
1999-2007 | BM Valladolid | ||||||||||||||||
2007–2011 | BM Ciudad Real | ||||||||||||||||
2011-2012 | BM Atlético de Madrid | ||||||||||||||||
2012–2017 | Telekom Veszprém | ||||||||||||||||
2017–2020 | Saran Loiret Handball | ||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
Spain | 127[1] | (159) | |||||||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||||||
2019–2022 | Hungary (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
2020–2023 | S.L. Benfica | ||||||||||||||||
2022– | Hungary | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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José María Rodríguez Vaquero (born 5 January 1980), commonly known as Chema Rodríguez, is a Spanish handball coach and former player.[2]
Career
[edit]Chema Rodríguez started his professional career at BM Valladolid. Here he won the 2003 Copa ASOBAL and the 2005 and 2006 Copa del Rey.
In 2007 BM Ciudad Real for a transfer fee of ca. 800,000€.[3] This was at the time the world record transfer fee.[4] At BM Ciudad Real he shared the playmaker position with Joan Cañellas. Here he won the 2008 Liga ASOBAL, Copa del Rey and the Spanish Supercup. In 2009 he once again one the Spanish league and the EHF Champions League, and in 2010 for a third time the Spanish League. In 2011 he followed the club as they transisioned to being BM Atlético de Madrid.
A year later he joined Hungarian side MKB Veszprém.[5] Here he won the Hungarian championship and Hungarian cup every season from 2013 to 2017.
In 2017 he joined French side Saran Loiret Handball,[6] where he played until his retirement in 2020.
Rodríguez was part of the team that won gold medals at the 2005 World Championship in Tunisia and silver medals at the 2006 European Championship in Switzerland.
Coaching career
[edit]In the summer of 2019 Rodríguez became the assistant coach at the Hungary national team.[7]
In 2020 he got his first position as a head coach at the Portuguese club Benfica Lissabon.[8] Here he won the 2021–22 EHF European League.
In March 2022 he took over as the head coach of the Hungary national team alongside Benfica.[9]
At the end of the 2022-23 season he stopped as the Benfica head coach to be a full time national team coach.[10]
Honours
[edit]- As coach
References
[edit]- ^ "2015 World Championship Roster" (PDF). IHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "Profile". eurohandball.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "Die Zeit des großen Bettelns ist vorbei..." (in German). Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. 30 July 2007.
- ^ Eggers (2 February 2009). "Millionen für den Weltmeister" (in German). Der Spiegel.
- ^ "Nächster Spanien-Import für Veszprem" (in German). Handball-world.news. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
- ^ "LNH-Aufsteiger holt Spielmacher aus Veszprem" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ "Chema Rodriguez: "Haben Sie den Eindruck die Spieler wären verwirrt?"" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ "Benfica Lissabon mit Trainerwechsel" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ "HUNGARY NAME CHEMA RODRIGUEZ AS MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM HEAD COACH". ihf.info. International Handball Federation. 14 March 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ^ "Chema Rodriguez mit Abschied von Benfica Lissabon" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Spanish male handball players
- Sportspeople from Palencia
- S.L. Benfica (handball) coaches
- Spanish handball coaches
- Expatriate handball coaches
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- Handball coaches of international teams
- BM Valladolid players
- BM Ciudad Real players
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
- Coaches at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Spanish expatriate handball players in France
- Spanish expatriate handball players in Hungary
- 21st-century Spanish sportsmen
- Spanish handball biography stubs