Iker Romero
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Iker Romero Fernández (born 15 June 1980) is a retired Spanish handball player, currently working as the head coach of SG BBM Bietigheim.
He won the World Men's Handball Championship in 2005 with the Spain men's national handball team in Tunisia.
Career
Iker Romero signed his first professional contract in 1997 with BM Valladolid. In 2000 he signed for Ademar León, where he won the Spanish Championship in 2001. The same year he signed for BM Ciudad Real. Here he won the 2003 Copa del Rey and the 2002 and 2003 EHF Cup Winners' Cup. In 2003 he signed for FC Barcelona, where he won the 2006 and 2007 Spanish Championship, the 2004 Copa del Rey, the 2004 and 2007 European Supercup and the 2005 and 2011 EHF Champions League.
In 2011 he moved to Germany to join Füchse Berlin, where he won the 2013-14 DHB-Pokal and the 2014-15 EHF European League. In April 2014 he announced that he would retire at the end of season and move back to Spain,[1] but he decided to stay for one more year in Berlin before retiring.[2][3]
Coaching Career
In 2017 he became the assistant coach at the German Handball-Bundesliga club TSV Hannover-Burgdorf.[4]
From the 2021-22 season he became the head coach of SG BBM Bietigheim.[5]
Private life
He is married to the German handball player Laura Steinbach.[6]
References
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- Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic handball players for Spain
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- BM Ciudad Real players
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