Macarena Aguilar
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Bolaños de Calatrava, Spain
| Macarena Aguilar | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Aguilar in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Macarena Aguilar Díaz | ||
| Born |
12 March 1985 Bolaños de Calatrava, Spain | ||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2001–2009 | Sagunto | ||
2009–2012 | SD Itxako | ||
2012–2014 | Randers HK | ||
2014–2015 | Győri ETO KC | ||
2015 | Rostov-Don | ||
2015–2016 | Siófok KC | ||
2016–2018 | Thüringer HC | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2004–2017 | Spain | 240 | (638) |
Macarena Aguilar Díaz[a] (born 12 March 1985)[1] is a Spanish former handball player who played for the Spanish national team.[2][3][4]
Aguilar started her senior career at Balonmano Sagunto, where she stayed for eight years.[5] With Sagunto, she won every domestic competition: the Spanish Championship, Spanish League Cup, Queen's Cup (Spanish: Copa de la Reina) and Spanish Supercup.[6] In July 2009, she moved to Estella to play for Itxako.[5] Here she won the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Spanish championship.
She then joined Danish team Randers HK.[7] In 2014 she joined Hungarian Győri ETO KC.[8] Here she won the 2015 Hungarian cup. In the summer of 2015 she joined Russian Rostov-Don, but immediately returned to Hungary a month later in September and joined Siófok KC.[9][10]
From 2016 to 2018, she played for the German team Thüringer HC.[1] Here she won the 2018 German championship. Afterwards she retired from handball.[11]
National team
Aguilar won a gold medal with the Spanish national team at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería.[12] She won silver medals at the 2008 European Championship,[13] where the Spanish team reached the final after defeating Germany in the semifinal,[14] and the 2014 European Championship, where the team was defeated by Norway in the final.[15]
From 2004 to 2017, Aguilar played 240 matches and scored 638 goals for the national team.[16] She competed at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil,[17] where the Spanish team placed third. She was also part of the Spanish team that won bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2011 World Championship.[18]
Injuries and awards
Aguilar broke her nose five times during her career. She missed nine months of competition in 2008 due to a knee injury, and fractured a metatarsal bone on her foot at the 2012 European Championships. In 2013, she received the Bronze Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit.[4]
