Daniel Sarmiento Melián

Daniel Sarmiento (2012 )

As of January 27, 2014

Daniel Sarmiento Melián ( born August 25, 1983 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain ) is a Spanish handball player. He is 1.86 m tall and weighs 76 kg.

Sarmiento, who for the Spanish club FC Barcelona ( shirt number 11) plays is mostly used on the back Space Center.

Daniel Sarmiento began in his hometown with the handball game. Later he joined the biggest club in his native island, CBM Gáldar, for whom he made ​​his debut in the League ASOBAL. But when his club had to declare bankruptcy in 2003, Sarmiento moved to the mainland to BM Ciudad de Almería. There he stayed for four years before he was taken in 2007 by top club Ademar León under contract. As a replacement for Claus Møller Jakobsen scheduled Sarmiento took over the violation of responsibility, failed in the main round of the EHF Champions League but just wide of the German club THW Kiel. In 2009, Sarmiento joined the league rivals FC Barcelona. With Barcelona he won in 2011, 2012 and 2013 the championship and the EHF Champions League 2010/11.

With the Spanish national team Sarmiento was 2013 world champion. At the European Championship 2014 in Denmark, he won bronze.