Cristian Ugalde

Cristian Ugalde
Ugalde in 2013
Personal information
Full name Cristian Ugalde García
Born (1987-10-19) 19 October 1987
Barcelona, Spain
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Left wing
Club information
Current club Tatabánya KC (manager)
Senior clubs
Years Team
2004–2012
 FC Barcelona
2012–2018
 Telekom Veszprém
2018–2020
 TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
2020–2022
 AEK Athens
2022–2024
 Tatabánya KC
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2016
 Spain 131 (288)
Teams managed
2024–
 Tatabánya KC
Medal record
European Youth Olympic Festival
Gold medal – first place2003 Paris
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place2011 Sweden
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2016 Poland
Bronze medal – third place2014 Denmark

Cristian Ugalde García (born 19 October 1987) is a Spanish professional handball player for Tatabánya KC and the Spain national team.[1][2]

Career

He started his career in FC Barcelona's youth teams and he played his first match with FC Barcelona's Senior Team in the ASOBAL League 20 October 2004, just one day after being 17 years old.[3] He played for FC Barcelona Senior team 7 years and won 18 titles. In 2012 he signed a contract with MKB Veszprem for the next 3 seasons, which in his second season as a player in the Hungarian club, has been prolonged for 3 more years until 2018.[4] In 2020 he joined the Greek team AEK H.C..[5] In 2022 he joined Hungarian Tatabánya KC,[6] where he played until his retirement in 2024.[3] After his retirement he became the head coach of his former club Tatabánya KC.[3][7]

Ugalde was called up for the first time to play for the senior Spain National Team 15 June 2007 and since then he has played 131 games and has scored 288 goals. He is a graduate in Sports Science for the Universidad Camilo José Cela in 2018.

Honours

FC Barcelona

MKB Veszprém

TSV Hannover-Burgdorf

AEK Athens HC

International

Individual

Private

His older brother Antonio Ugalde is also a handball player.

References

  1. ↑ "Ugalde Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 25 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ "2015 World Championship Roster" (PDF). IHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Cristian Ugalde anuncia su retirada para seguir en el Tatabanya como entrenador" (in Spanish). Marca. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  4. ↑ "Recken nehmen Cristian Ugalde unter Vertrag" (in German). handball-world.news. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Cristian Ugalde wechselt nach Athen" (in German). handball-world.news. 29 June 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Christian Ugalde wechselt im Sommer zurück nach Ungarn" (in German). handball-world.news. 19 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  7. ↑ "Tóth Edmond a Tatabánya KC vezetőedzője" (in Hungarian). m4sport.hu. 6 June 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
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