Universitat de Barcelona

Former FC Barcelona handball team captain

David Barrufet (Barcelona, 1970) is considered one of the best handball players of all time. Former captain of the FC Barcelona handball team, he began playing handball at the Sagrada Familia school in the Horta suburb of Barcelona at eight years of age. At 14 he signed for FC Barcelona and subsequently made his debut with the first team at 18. Throughout a long handball career David won seven European Cups, two European Cup Winners’ Cups, five European Super Cups, twelve Spanish Super Cups, ten Pyrenees Leagues, six ASOBAL cups, seven Catalan league titles, twelve Spanish league titles, eleven King’s Cups and one EHF Cup. He topped the rankings being capped 280 times for the Spanish national team, with which he won the 2005 World Championships in Tunisia, two Olympic bronze medals (one at Sydney and the other at Beijing) and the Super Cup of Nations. Now, at 40 years of age, David has retired from handball and is working towards fulfilling a childhood dream: to become a lawyer.