Iker Romero Fernández (born 15 June 1980) is a retired Spanish handball player, currently working as the head coach of SG BBM Bietigheim.
He won the World Men's Handball Championship in 2005 with the Spain men's national handball team in Tunisia.
Career
Iker Romero signed his first professional contract in 1997 with BM Valladolid. In 2000 he signed for Ademar León, where he won the Spanish Championship in 2001. The same year he signed for BM Ciudad Real. Here he won the 2003 Copa del Rey and the 2002 and 2003 EHF Cup Winners' Cup. In 2003 he signed for FC Barcelona, where he won the 2006 and 2007 Spanish Championship, the 2004 Copa del Rey, the 2004 and 2007 European Supercup and the 2005 and 2011 EHF Champions League.
In 2011 he moved to Germany to join Füchse Berlin, where he won the 2013-14 DHB-Pokal and the 2014-15 EHF European League. In April 2014 he announced that he would retire at the end of season and move back to Spain,[1] but he decided to stay for one more year in Berlin before retiring.[2][3]
Coaching Career
In 2017 he became the assistant coach at the German Handball-Bundesliga club TSV Hannover-Burgdorf.[4]
From the 2021-22 season he became the head coach of SG BBM Bietigheim.[5]
Private life
He is married to the German handball player Laura Steinbach.[6]
References
- ^ "Iker Romero beendet seine Karriere bei den Füchsen Berlin" [Iker Romero retires at Füchse Berlin] (in German). handball-world.com. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
- ^ "Füchse bestätigen Christophersen-Abgang und präsentieren Romero als Nachfolger" (in German). handball-world.com. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ "Füchse verlängern zwei Verträge nicht und bestätigen Romeros Karriereende" [Füchse does not extend for a second time and confirms Romeros retirement] (in German). handball-world.com. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "Hannover-Burgdorf löst Bürkle-Nachfolge, Iker Romero wird Co-Trainer" [Hannover-Burgdorf solves the Bürkle successor, Iker Romero becomes assistant coach] (in German). handball-world.news. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ "Iker Romero wird neuer SG-Cheftrainer" [Iker Romero becomes new SG head coach]. sgbbm.de (in German). SG BBM Bietigheim. 9 February 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ "Iker Romero heiratet DHB-Nationalspielerin". handball-world.com.
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Iker Romero". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 19 September 2011.
- Escuela de Balonmano Iker Romero
- Federación Alavesa de Balonmano Archived 4 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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