[CONFIRMED] Fran Fernandez to retirement

Barceloneta’s attacker Francisco Fernandez put an and at his professional water polo career after the Champions League Final Eight in Belgrade.

After the F8, Barceloneta announced on its social media that the bronze-medal match against Vouliagmeni (the Spanish champion won the game after a penalty shootout) had been the last one for Fernandez:

 

“The last dance
Fran Fernandez has played his last match. He says goodbye with an important victory. Fran is Barceloneta’s history. We love you, Fran”.

 

Fernandez (37) played for Barceloneta for almost his entire professional career, on two occasions. For the first time between 2004 and 2009. Then, he spent one season at Mataro and returned to Barceloneta in 2010. He started playing water polo in his hometown Madrid and was a member of Tres Cantos and Real Canoe in his youth and junior age.

Fernandez won a number of trophies playing for Barceloneta, including the Champions League in 2014.

 

Representing Spain, Fernandez clinched three silver medals – at the World Championships in 2019 and at the Europeans in 2018 and 2020.