Francesc "Xesco" Espar Moya (born January 4, 1963, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a handball trainer and a former player.
He began playing handball in Sagrada Família school in Barcelona, GEIEG club in Girona and finally in the professional team of FC Barcelona Handbol.
After that he began to train some of the younger categories of FC Barcelona, being later the third trainer of the professional team and finally in the 2004-05 season became the trainer of FC Barcelona Handbol. In 2007, he is replaced by Manolo Cadenas.
As trainer
Joan Laporta i Estruch is a Catalan politician and current president of FC Barcelona.
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Bogdan Brunon Wenta is a Polish politician and handball coach and former Polish and German handball player. He has been a member of the Poland men's national handball team in 1981–1994 and Germany men's national handball team in 1997–2000, a participant of the Olympic Games Sydney 2000, five-time Polish Champion, and former head coach of Poland. He has been one of the best handball player in the history of Polish handball. Between 2014 and 2018 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Polish Civic Platform. In 2018, he was elected as Mayor of Kielce, having run from his own committee with the endorsement of the Civic Platform.
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