Jorge Maqueda
Jorge Maqueda Peño is a Spanish handball player for Industria Kielce. He was on the Spanish team that won the 2013 World Championship.
Career
Maqueda's first professional club was FC Barcelona, where he played from 2005 to 2007. In 2009 he joined BM Aragón, where he played until 2012. He then joined French team HBC Nantes. In 2015 he joined Macedonian team RK Vardar Skopje. Here he won the 2016 and 2017 North Macedonian cup and league double. He also won the 2016-17 EHF Champions League with the club.In 2018 he joined Hungarian team Pick Szeged. Here he won the 2019 Hungarian Cup. In 2020 he joined league rivals KC Veszprém. With Veszprém he won the 2021 and 2022 Hungarian cup and the 2021 SEHA League.
In 2022 he returned to French handball and HBC Nantes. Here he won the Trophée des Champions in the 2022-23 season and the Coupe de France in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 season.
In 2024 he joined Polish team KS Kielce.
National team
Maqueda played 47 games for the Spanish youth national teams, scoring 222 goals and 47 games for the Junior national team, scoring 165 gaols.He debuted for the Spanish national team on 15 June 2007. His first major international tournament was the 2011 World Championship.
He competed for Spain in the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Spain finished 7th. and the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Honours and awards
Vardar Skopje
EHF Champions League 'Winner: 2016–17Macedonian Handball Super League: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18Macedonian Handball Cup': 2016, 2017, 2018MOL-Pick Szeged
- Magyar Kézilabdakupa: 2018–2019
Individual
- SEHA League All-Star Team Best Right Back: 2019–20