In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pérez de Vargas and the second or maternal family name is Moreno.

Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas Moreno (born 10 January 1991) is a Spanish professional handball player for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team.[1][2]

Career

Vargas started playing handball at his hometown club Amibal Toledo. In 2007 he switched to FC Barcelona Handbol. In the 2010/2011 he won the treble with the club, with the Spanish championship, Copa del Rey and EHF Champions League.

For the 2011/2012 season he joined league rivals BM Granollers.[3] Two years after he joined French side Fenix Toulouse Handball on a three year deal.[4]

For the 2014/2015 season he returned to FC Barcelona to replace Arpad Šterbik.[5]

National team

Vargas debuted for the Spanish national team in 2012 in a 34-20 win against Portugal.[6]

His first major international tournament was the 2014 European Men's Handball Championship.

At the 2018 European Championship in Croatia and the 2020 European Championship in Sweden/Austria/Norway he won gold medals with the Spanish team. In the latter he made the tournament All-star team as the goalkeeper.

He participated at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship.[7][8]

At the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship he won a silver medal.

At the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship in a match against Sweden, Pérez de Vargas showed a high level of fair play, when at the 40 minute mark Hampus Wanne got an incorrect red card for hitting Vargas in the head on a penalty throw, Pérez de Vargas went to the referee to correct him and let Wanne play on.[9]

Honours

  • Spanish League
    • 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Copa ASOBAL
    • 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Spanish Supercup
    • 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Catalan Supercup
    • 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

References

  1. ^ "Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  2. ^ "2015 World Championship Roster" (PDF). IHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Zukunft von Granollers in der Asobal scheint gesichert" (in German). www.handball-world.com. 6 July 2011.
  4. ^ "Toulouse gelingt Transfer-Coup im Tor" (in German). www.handball-world.com. 23 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Relevo en la portería del Barça de balonmano". www.fcbarcelona.es (in Spanish). FC Barcelona. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  6. ^ www.rfebm.com, Match Report Spain - Portugal, 1 November 2012, Read 15. April 2023
  7. ^ 2019 World Men's Handball Championship roster
  8. ^ "Abel Serdio y Sergey Hernández descartes de Jordi Ribera". rfebm.com. 29 December 2018.
  9. ^ ""I prefer to be faithful to myself, than to live with a bad conscience": Perez de Vargas makes sure that fair-play rules at Croatia/Denmark/Norway 2025". International Handball Federation. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 1 February 2025.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_P%C3%A9rez_de_Vargas
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