Jorge Maqueda Peño (born 6 February 1988) is a Spanish handball player for Industria Kielce.[2][3] He was on the Spanish team that won the 2013 World Championship.

Career

Maqueda's first professional club was FC Barcelona, where he played from 2005 to 2007. In 2009 he joined BM Aragón, where he played until 2012. He then joined French team HBC Nantes. In 2015 he joined North Macedonian team RK Vardar Skopje.[4] Here he won the 2016 and 2017 North Macedonian cup and league double. He also won the 2016-17 EHF Champions League with the club.

In 2018 he joined Hungarian team Pick Szeged.[5] Here he won the 2019 Hungarian Cup. In 2020 he joined league rivals KC Veszprém.[6] With Veszprém he won the 2021 and 2022 Hungarian cup and the 2021 SEHA League.

In 2022 he returned to French handball and HBC Nantes.[7] Here he won the Trophée des Champions in the 2022-23 season and the Coupe de France in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 season.

In 2024 he joined Polish team KS Kielce.[8]

National team

Jorge Maqueda at the 2013 World Championship

Maqueda played 47 games for the Spanish youth national teams, scoring 222 goals and 47 games for the Junior national team, scoring 165 gaols.[1]

He debuted for the Spanish national team on 15 June 2007.[1] His first major international tournament was the 2011 World Championship.

He competed for Spain in the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Spain finished 7th.[9] and the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Honours and awards

Vardar Skopje

MOL-Pick Szeged

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b c rfebm.com, JORGE MAQUEDA PENO
  2. ^ "Jorge Maqueda participará con la Selección el Europeo de Serbia 2012". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  3. ^ "2015 World Championship Roster" (PDF). IHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Vardar Skopje verpflichtet nächsten spanischen Nationalspieler" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Szeged holt Linkshänder von Vardar Skopje" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  6. ^ "EM-Allstar als Neuzugang: Telekom Veszprem mit fünf Personalentscheidungen" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Jorge Maqueda kehrt aus Vezsprem nach Nantes zurück" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Jorge Maqueda et Théo Monar quitteront le HBC Nantes cet été" (in French). HBC Nantes. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Jorge Maqueda Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Férfi kézilabda: Abszolút veszprémi fölény a SEHA-ligában - NSO". 8 September 2020.
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