Viran Morros

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Viran Morros
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Personal information
Full name Viran Morros de Argila
Born (1983-12-15) 15 December 1983 (age 41)
Barcelona, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Height 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)
Playing position Left back
Youth career
Team
 FC Barcelona
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2000–2003
 FC Barcelona
2003–2004
 SD Teucro
2004–2007
 CB Ademar León
2007–2011
 BM Ciudad Real
2011–2018
 FC Barcelona
2018–2021
 Paris Saint-Germain
2021–2022
 Füchse Berlin
2022–2024
 Pfadi Winterthur
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2003–2024
 Spain 259 (169)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 Spain
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Sweden
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Egypt
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Croatia
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Sweden/Austria/Norway
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Poland
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Denmark
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Spain

Viran Morros de Argila (born 15 December 1983) is a retired Spanish handball player. [1] [2] He is regarded as one of the best defensive players of his time.

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He was inducted into the EHF Hall of Fame in 2024. [3]

Career

Morros started playing handball late at the age of 15. Until then he had been playing soccer, where he was discovered by FC Barcelonas coaches at a sommercamp hosted by Valero Rivera López. [4] [5] [6]

In the 2000/2001 season he became a part of the first team. [7] He debuted in Liga ASOBAL on October 17th 2002. He did however not cement his place and played only 8 matches in three seasons for the club. [7] He won both the Spanish League, Spanish Cup and Spanish Supercup while at the club as well as the EHF European League in 2003.

To get better playing time he joined league rivals SD Teucro. Here he played primarily as a defender at first. [5] Here he drew interest from both BM Valladolid [8] and Ademar León, and he signed for the latter. [4] Here he played from 2004 to 2007. It was here he developed as a true defensive specialist. [5] His biggest achievement with the club was winning the EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 2004/05. [4]

In 2007 he joined BM Ciudad Real, managed by Talant Dujshebaev. [6] Here he won the Spanish league three times (in 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10), twice the EHF Champions League (2008 and 2009) [4] and the 2010 IHF Super Globe. [9]

Despite the club wanting to keep him, he returned to FC Barcelona in 2010. [6] Here he won the Spanish league seven times in a row from 2011/12 to 2017/18, the Spanish cup 5 times (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018) and the Copa ASOBAL and the Spanish Supercup seven times in a row from 2012 to 2018. He also won the 2013 IHF Super Globe [10] and 2014. [11] Between 2000 and 2018 he played 434 matches in the Spanish League, scoring 514 goals. [7] Seven times he was named as the best defender in the league. [4]

In 2018 he joined French side Paris Saint-Germain on a deal until 2020. [12] Here he won the French Championship three times. [13] In the 2019/2020 season he was named best defender in the league. [14]

In 2021 Morros moved to Germany and joined Füchse Berlin on a one year deal. [13]

In 2022 he moved to Switzerland to join Pfadi Winterthur. [15] He retired after the 2023/24 season. [16] [17]

National team

Morros played for the Spanish youth team between 2001 and 2003. [18]

He played his first match on the Spanish national team on June 13th 2003. [18]

He first tasted succes with national team, when he won the 2005 Mediterranean Games.

At the 2012 European Men's Handball Championship, where Spain finished 4th he was in the all star team as best defender. [6]

At the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship at home he won gold medals with the Spanish team. The year after he won bronze medals at the 2014 European Men's Handball Championship. At the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship he won silver medals.

He also participated at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 World Men's Handball Championship. [19] [20]

He once again won medals with the Spanish team at the 2018 European Men's Handball Championship and at the 2020 Championship he defended his title.

At the 2020 Olympics he was injured in the third match and could not continue. [21] [22]

His last major international tournament was the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship, where Spain finished 13th.

He played his last match for the national team on May 12th 2024, more than 20 years after his debut. [18]

Titles

During his career he won a total of 53 titles. [17]

Club:

National team:

Individual awards

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References

  1. ↑ "Viran Morros Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "2015 World Championship Roster" (PDF). IHF . Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 "New legends of the game inducted into EHF Hall of Fame". European Handball Federation . Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Morros". arxiu.fcbarcelona.cat. FC Barcelona . Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 "«Und dann gaben sie mir diese Barça-Kleider»" (in German). www.landbote.ch. 4 October 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Viran Morros: "Vaig tornar al Barça amb el repte de triomfar a casa"" (in Catalan). www.ara.cat. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 "ASOBAL game statistics". asobal.es. Liga ASOBAL.
  8. ↑ "Ademar se anticipa al Valladolid y deja casi atado a Viran Morros" (in Spanish). www.diariodeleon.es. 11 March 2004. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  9. ↑ archive.ihf.info, Team 2013, 21 May 2010, retrieved 22. August 2024
  10. ↑ archive.ihf.info, Team 2013, 30. August 2013, retrieved 22. August 2024
  11. ↑ archive.ihf.info, Team 2014, 12. September 2014, retrieved 22. August 2024
  12. ↑ "Viran Morros deja el Barcelona para irse al PSG" (in Spanish). leonoticias.com. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  13. 1 2 "Europameister Morros wird ein Fuchs" [European Champion Morros is a 'Fuchs']. fuechse.berlin (in German). Füchse Berlin . Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  14. ↑ "Viran Morros 23'". psg.fr. Paris Saint-Germain . Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  15. ↑ "Vertrag bei den Füchsen Berlin wird nicht verlängert: Viran Morros wechselt in die Schweiz" [Contract as Füchse Berlin not extended: Viran Morros transfers to Switzerland] (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  16. ↑ "VIRAN MORROS GEHT ALS EINER VON UNS" [Viran Morros leaves as one of us]. www.pfadi-winterthur.ch (in German). Pfadi Winterthur. May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  17. 1 2 "Virán Morros también cuelga la camiseta" (in Spanish). as.com. 21 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
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  19. ↑ 2019 World Men's Handball Championship roster
  20. ↑ "Abel Serdio y Sergey Hernández descartes de Jordi Ribera". rfebm.com. Spanish Handball Federation. 29 December 2018.
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