The left-handed winger Pablo Urdangarín de Borbón (20 years and 1.86 meters) is the great novelty of the call for Antonio Carlos Ortega placeholder image for the meeting of Asobal League of this Saturday Saturday (7:00 p.m.) in the Palau Blaugrana against Bada Huesca.
The second son of the former Barça player Iñaki Urdangarín and the Infanta Cristina de Borbón, has signed this season for Barça ‘B’ who plays in Group B of the Spanish Silver Honor Division.
He made his debut on September 26 at the pavilion of the Joan Gamper Sports City in Sant Joan Despí against Trops Málaga. He played the last ten minutes of the match, scoring a goal to help his team win 23-21.
The team that Ferran Porres coaches is now second in Group B with two wins and one loss in three rounds played. Pablo Urdangarín, wears the number 77, in honor of his father, who wore the number 7 (withdrawn by the club and placed on top of the Palau Blaugrana).
His debut with the first team could take place 35 years after his father did, in 1986, with 18 years of military service at Barça for fourteen seasons, between 1986 and 2000, achieving 53 titles. In 2000 he retired from competition.
Pablo Urdangarin, who was born in Barcelona on December 6, 2000, began to play handball at the French Lyceum in Barcelona, from there he went to the Esplugues Handball Club and later to the lower categories of Barça.
At just 17 years old, in September 2018 he moved to Germany, where he played for a season in the U19 team of the TSV Hannover-Burgdorf of the Bundesliga, where he coincided with the now Barça coach Antonio Carlos Ortega and his second, Iker Romero, who trained him in the U19 team.
A year later, in the summer of 2019 he signed for HBC Nantes de Alberto Entrerríos but the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted competitions in March 2020.
In August of that year he moved to Barcelona, where his aunt Ana lives and where he is studying at the EU Business School.
He started training with Barça ‘B’ last season, but he did so without a record because when he joined the team he already had his squad records completed.
This campaign has already had a record and a position in the squad, both in the position of winger or left-handed side. Tomorrow he will be the Barça ‘B’ player that Carlos Ortega will include in the first team call-up.