The ASOBAL ecosystem to establish the foundations for the success of the champion.

Liga NEXUS ENERGIA ASOBAL
11/04/2026 | Fotografía: Álex Caparrós Liga NEXUS ENERGIA ASOBAL

Barça has won the NEXUS ENERGÍA ASOBAL League showing a worked performance, built from their own field, with the authority of a great goal and the ability to always maintain a high pace on the court. Carlos Ortega's team has shown in recent seasons to be a living project that has evolved from ‘La Masia’ and the context of maximum competitiveness of the NEXUS ENERGÍA ASOBAL League, enhanced by professionalization, the improvement of the overall product, work with the national quarry and the level of technical boards.

It's a fitting of pieces that makes the general mechanism work. 11 of the 22 players that make up the current Barça rotation have gone through the club's lower categories. National talent that debuts, consolidates and takes hold in the circuit of professional competition and that has had a direct impact on the blaugrana performance this season. From Aleix Gómez, cornerstone of the project, to Adrián Sola, the youngest of the rotation, with a specific weight in the conquest of this NEXUS ENERGÍA ASOBAL League. The Navarrese, who already knows what it is like to be part of the exclusive ‘ideal 7’ label, is the youngest scorer in the entire competition.

The left-handed, 17 years old, capable of contributing from the side and the wing, accumulates 80 goals and an average of 4 goals per game, without counting seven-meter throws. After making his debut the previous year in O Gatañal, becoming the second youngest debutant in an official match in the history of Barça, Sola has secured a fixed position in the blaugrana rotation, proving to be a solid alternative, that grows under the ASOBAL handball spotlights.

Experience based on demanding scenarios that enhances personal talent. Same formula as Filip Saric in his third professional handball course, tracing a solid growth. The goalkeeper has managed to always be above 30% in the 9 matches he has played this season, receiving a minimum of 11 shots in each case.

Role planning proves to be very measured. The work and the ecosystem make the contribution of each member of the group not superficial. The emergence of other reserve team players such as Manuel Ortega -also the ‘ideal 7’ this course-, Miguel Angel Martín -MVP of the Day the previous year- or Oriol San Felipe are part of the team's competitive ground. They are added to figures who have consolidated themselves in the ASOBAL territory after training in the lower categories like Petar and Djordje Cikusa, Óscar Grau, Ian Barrufet and Dani Fernández.

The last two, star additions in the last summer market, synthesize the process. They have managed to turn the label of generational talent into a reality cooked slowly on the courts of professional competition. Their impact in Barcelona and Frigoríficos del Morrazo, in the case of Fernández, even lifting the award for best left winger of the league on two occasions, laid the foundations of an international level career. It's the result of a work method that translates into elite handball and the conquest of the last NEXUS ENERGÍA ASOBAL League title.