The former Spanish coach of FC Barcelona, Xavi Pascual, debuted this Wednesday with a defeat at the head of his new team, the Dinamo Bucharest, that in his first game of the season lost the Romanian Handball Super Cup against him Dobrogea Sud de Constancereported the news portal Hotnews.ro.
Despite being a clear favorite in all bets, the Dynamo from ‘Pasqui’, as the Catalan coach is known, he failed to prevail on the track and ended up losing by a tight 19-18 against Dobrogea Sud in this final disputed in the town of Teleorman, next to the Romanian border with Bulgaria.
Dinamo won the Romanian League and Cup last season, and is, initially, the best placed team to revalidate these titles after strengthening with the signing of several players and hiring Xavi Pascual, who has just won the Champions League with Barcelona and he is one of the most awarded coaches in the world.
Pascual’s team, which was also announced last week as the new coach of the Romanian national team, will play again this year in the Champions League, where it is framed in a B Group in which European handball giants such as Barça, PSG, Porto, Flensburg or Veszprém.
Xavi Pascual signed for Dinamo in June, after Barcelona informed him that they did not have him for next season. Among other titles, Pascual got 11 ASOBAL Leagues and 3 Champions Leagues on the Blaugrana bench.
Before signing for 3 seasons with Dinamo, whoever was Barça’s goalkeeper had already been Romanian coach between 2016 and 2018.