David Davis (handballer)

David Davis
Davis in 2008
Personal information
Full name	David Davis Cámara
Born	(1976-10-25) 25 October 1976 Barcelona, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Wing
Club information
Current club	Dinamo București (manager)
Senior clubs
Years	Team
0000–1995	BM Granollers
1995–1996	CB Naranco Oviedo
1996–1997	SD Teucro
1997–1999	BM Altea
1999–2005	BM Valladolid
2005–2011	BM Ciudad Real
2011–2013	Bm. At. Madrid
2013	FC Porto
National team
Years	Team
	Spain
Teams managed
2014–2018	RK Vardar (assistant)
2016–2017	ŽRK Vardar
2017–2018	Russia (assistant)
2018–2019	Egypt
2018–2021	Telekom Veszprém
2022	RK Vardar 1961
2022–2024	Al Ahly
2024–	Dinamo București
Medal record Men's handball Representing Spain Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team World Championship 2005 Tunisia Team European Championship 2006 Switzerland Team

David Davis Cámara (born 25 October 1976) is a Spanish handball coach and former player. He currently coaches Romanian club Dinamo București. He was born in Barcelona and raised in Santa Maria de Palautordera to Equatoguinean Bubi parents from Malabo.

His usual playing position was as left winger. His last team was FC Porto in 2013. In 2014 he became assistant coach in RK Vardar from Skopje, Macedonia.

In 2016 he was appointed head coach of ŽRK Vardar.

Since 2014 he has lived a new phase on the bench. He began his work as a coach in the technical team of RK Vardar together with Raúl González Gutiérrez, with whom he won the EHF Champions League in 2017 after having come close to participating in the Final Four in Cologne in the previous two seasons since the League. Macedonia. They again qualified for the EHFCL Final4 in 2018. In the summer of 2018, he took the reins of the Egyptian national team, with whom he competed at the 2019 World Cup in Denmark, achieving a historic eighth place six months later.

In October 2018 he took over Telekom Veszprém. In a very complicated season, he managed to recover the team until they became champions of the Hungarian League and the SEHA League, while they managed to reach the Champions League final. The Egyptian Federation then demanded exclusivity from Davis for his project and, faced with the ultimatum, the Spaniard decided to continue as head of Telekom Veszprém. During the pandemic, in the 2019/2020 season and after the cancellation of the national competitions, the team once again earned a place in the Final4. In 2021, after losing in the quarterfinals against Nantes and lifting the Hungarian Cup, Davis disassociated himself from the Magyars.

In January 2022, the Spanish coach returns to Skopje to manage RK Vardar, which at this point in the season closes its Champions League group and barely stays alive in the national competition. The team manages to get through the difficult group stage and falls to Telekom Veszprém (after starting a draw with Balaton). Despite numerous injuries and financial difficulties, the Macedonians are proclaimed champions of the League and Cup. The sanction of the EHF that prevents RK Vardar from playing in European competitions separated their paths.

Records as a coach

• Winner Velux Champions League 2016–2017
• SEHA League 2013–2014, 2017
• Macedonian Handball Cup 2013–2014, 2014–2015, 2015–2016,2016–2017
• Macedonian Handball Super League 2014–2015, 2015–2016, 2016–2017
• Egyptian Handball League 2022-2023
• Egypt Handball Cup 2022-2023
• African Handball Super Cup 2023

Records with national team

• World Championship: 1
  • 2005 – Túnez
• European Men's Handball Championship:1
  • 2006 – Switzerland/ silver medal
• Gold medal Mediterranean Games 2005
• Silver medal European Championship 2006
• Gold medal Yourth European Championship 1994
• Campeón España Junior 1995/1996.
• Campeón de España Junior 1994/1995.
• 4 Campeonatos de España en Categ. Inferiores

Records with clubs

• 3 European Handball Championship 2005–2006, 2007–2008, 2008–2009
• 4 ASOBAL League 2006–2007 2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2009–2010.
• 5 King's Cup 2004–2005, 2007–2008, 2010–2011, 2011–2012, 2012–13.
• 3 Supercup of Spain 2007–2008, 2009–2010, 2011–12.
• 5 ASOBAL Cup 2002–2003, 2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2010–2011.
• 1 EHF Cup 1994–1995.
• 3 European Handball Supercup 2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2008–2009.
• 3 IHF Super Globe 2006–2007, 2009–2010, 2012–2013.
• Runner up ASOBAL League 2005–06, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13.
• Runner up Kings Cup 1999–2000, 2008–2009.
• Runner up Spain Handball Supercup 2008–2009, 2012–13.
• Runner up ASOBAL Cup 2012–13.
• Runner up Europe Cup 2011–12.
• Runner up EHF Cup Winners' Cup 2003–2004.
• Runner up EHF City Cup 1999–2000.

External links

• David Davis at the European Handball Federation
• David Davis at Olympics.com
• David Davis at Olympedia
• NBC Olympics Bio at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 November 2009)