After Joaquín Ruiz Lemes, who obtained the title of national handball coach in 1975, and only trained senior teams; I had the honor of being the second in Lanzarote to obtain the title, in 1982, in Madrid, with Domingo Bárcenas, Juan de Dios Román, Carlos Álvarez del Villar and Fernando Vizcaíno as professors, among others.
Already then I had created the San José Obrero Handball School in the 1976-77 academic year and, after obtaining the national title, with the necessary complicity of Santiago Guadalupe, then Minister of Sports of the Cabildo, and Andrés Fuentes, Councilor for Sports of the Arrecife City Council, I promoted the creation of the Lanzarote Island Handball School in the 1983-84 academic year, and director of it until 1991.
From both Schools and, humbly, from my hand, although later each one has evolved towards their own respective training styles, practically all the coaches of historical and current Island handball have emerged, except those of San Bartolomé and Club Zonzamas, which have had their own school. It is necessary to specify that some of my students or disciples took their first steps at the Colegio Generalísimo Franco, under the guidance of Professor Guillermo González Raviña.
Exactly the same, the most important referees in Lanzarote had their first relationship with handball from the San José Obrero School, and in the Island Handball Referees School.
Moreover, also those who have managed the destinies of handball in Lanzarote and in the Canary Islands are from the San José School. I myself was twice president of the Canary Islands Handball Federation in 1995 and 1999, and currently it is Blas Parrilla Cabrera, since 2001 after my resignation for family reasons. Likewise, the last five presidents of the Lanzarote Island Handball Federation, including the current one, Miguel Ángel Ferrer del Castillo. The same goes for the previous ones, José Domingo Morera, Claudio Díaz Romero, Vicente Robayna Reyes and Sergio Morera Aparicio. All of them were players of San José Obrero before taking office as president.
REFEREES SCHOOL
The national referees, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Santana, Juan Carlos Fuentes Moreno and Andrés Martín González (Chevito), also started in handball from the San José School. The same goes for Blas Parrilla Cabrera, national referee and now vice president of the Spanish Federation. Likewise, the referees of regional and island category Andrónico Pérez Tabares, Eloy Perdomo, Pedro Rodríguez, Rafael Ángel Domínguez Schwartz, Ye Cabrera Morales, the brothers José Maria, César and Javier Curbelo Luzardo, José Francisco Crespo, Manuel Morales Betancort, Miguel Ángel Ferrer, Sonia Saavedra, already retired or Santiago Perdomo and Nabila de Ganzo, still active.
In addition, both for the celebration of the already 48 editions of the 24-hour Tournament and in the island beach handball circuits held between 1995 and 2000, San José Obrero has always had, in a special way, its own team of referees.
THE MAJORITY OF THE COACHES
After me, from the San José School, they have also obtained the title of national handball coach, or now that of sports technician level III specialist in handball, Jesús Casanova in 1985, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Santana, José Manuel Paez, Miguel Ángel Lemes, Casimiro Tejera Bonilla, David de la Hoz Fernández, Jesús Rodríguez Morales, Juanmi Pérez Fernández, Luis Morín Arrocha, Paco Hernández, Alejandro Bonilla Cabrera and David Betancort Hernández.
In addition, initiated in San José Obrero, they have been or are outstanding coaches in Island handball, Miguel Ángel Jiménez Cabrera, Miguel Ángel Ferrer del Castillo, Toto Hernández Santana, Goyo García Luzardo, Juan Francisco Cabrera Suárez, José Domingo Morera Aparicio, José Luis Betancort Aparicio, Juan Ramón Eugenio Fuentes, Sergio González Cedrés, Eloy Perdomo Olivero, Dolores Alcalde Alba, Paca Toledo Rodríguez, Luis Aparicio Leal, Juan José Perdomo Curbelo, Salomé Hernández Rocío, Marcial Brito Corujo, Quique Martín Pérez, Sergio Bonilla Cabrera, Nieves Perdomo Curbelo, Marcos Hernández Bonilla, Pedro Noda Rosa, Felipe Martín Hernández, Carlos Martín Pérez, Sergio Cedrés Cabrera, Conrado Hernández de la Hoz and now Nabila de Ganzo. This, in addition to an innumerable number of current and former monitors of the San José Obrero Handball School itself.
Thus, it is irrefutable that the San José Obrero Handball Club has been the only and true Handball School in Lanzarote.
