About Jérôme Fernandez
Jérôme Fernandez (born 7 March 1977) is a French handball coach and former handball player. He was a captain of the France men's national handball team and currently holds the record for the number of goals for France's national team (1,463 through 9 January 2020). He is in the French handball Hall of Fame. He is a knight of the Legion of Honour and an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite. == Career == Fernandez began playing handball at the Club La Bastidienne. In 1985 he joined Carbon-Blanc. In 1993 he joined Girondins de Bordeaux HBC and in 1997 he joined Toulouse Union HB. Here he won the French cup in 1997-98. In 1999 he joined Montpellier Handball, where he won the 1999-2000 and 2001-02 French championship and the French cup three times in a row from 1999-2000 to 2001-02. In 2002 he moved to Spain to join FC Barcelona. Here he won the 2002-03 and 2005-06 Spanish Championship and the 2003-04 and 2006-07 Copa del Rey, the 2003-04 Spanish Supercup, Copa ASOBAL and European Supercup.
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