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He landed in Portugal, at the age of 22, at the hands of José Magalhães, who was beginning to penetrate the Cuban market. He spent ten seasons at FC Porto, where he always said he wanted to finish his career.
Alfredo Eduardo Quintana Bravo, born in Havana, Cuba, where he was born on March 20, 1988, became a true athlete, predestined for sports, weighing 2.01 m and 92 kg. José Magalhães, FC Porto handball general manager since 2000, some 21 years ago, so at a certain point he began to work in the Cuban market, having been responsible for the arrival of Quintana to Portugal, at the beginning of 2011.
At that time, the “rookie” was staying at the manager’s house and then at the former coach’s mother-in-law. The Caribbean was then a 22-year-old young man full of dreams and the first handball player of Cuban origin in our country. That same year, and on the athlete’s birthday (September 1), José Magalhães brought Daymaro Salina, the second of several successive Cubans, and who is now captain of FC Porto.
A born worker, with a unique ability to excel, Quintana quickly showed unusual qualities for the sport in Portugal, having shared the goal with few teammates in the blues and whites: Hugo Laurentino, many years, the Austrian Thomas Bauer, João Moniz and, this Once, the Macedonian Nikola Mitrevski – this without counting the “third” guardians, but with all of them he maintained excellent relations, highlighting the authentic complicity with Laurentino.
However, confident, with high self-esteem, he called himself Kingtana and all his teammates and opponents had enormous respect for him. In addition, this has been demonstrated with the succession of tributes made by almost all the emblems, and even other modalities, in recent days.
“An extraordinary warrior” who jumped to the national team
Algumas das publicações de Quintana no Instagram, a social network that I used a lot, deixavam clear in the way I thought – “Be lutas, you can lose, se não lutas, you’re lost” vida da-te o melhor dela “,” I want to be planted in the future like someone who inspired other people to do things that seemed impossible “and” I have been fighting since I was a child. I am not a survivor, I am an extraordinary warrior ” Some examples.
This warrior showed the race of the brave and fought until the last reserve of forces, however, he lost the battle. However, he left a very strong mark on Portuguese handball.
From FC Porto, a club that he had renewed until 2022/23 and in which he wanted to “end his career”. “In Portugal, I don’t see myself playing for another club,” he had also said in an interview with O JOGO.
Dragons – debuted in Anreade, Resende, on March 26, 2011, in a Porto-Sporting da Horta FC for the championship, with a 34-28 victory – won six championships (2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2018/19), a Portuguese Cup (2018/19) and two Super Cups (2014/15 and 2019/20), this in addition to having played the EHF Cup-four final, in Kiel (Germany), in 2018/19.
The fantastic displays, size, among other qualities, led Quintana to the National Team, where, as in the Blue and Whites, he was a key player. The first match of the Quinas team was a private match with Tunisia, at Oliveira do Hospital, on September 19, 2014. Rolando Freitas, coach. In that match, he shared the goal with Hugo Figueira, playing in the Netherlands, and Ricardo Candeias, Rui Silva’s assistant coach at Sporting. Portugal won 31-29.
He conquered 67 international matches, scored ten goals and was in the best classification in history for the national colors (sixth in Europe 2020, before being seventh in 2000; and tenth in the World Cup since this year, before that it was in position 12 of 2003). At this year’s World Cup, the goal was his and Humberto Gomes, 43. Gustavo Capdeville was also on the squad, but he never played.
In 2009, at the service of the country’s national team, Cuba, Alfredo Quintana – and Daymaro Salina – played the World Cup in Croatia.
For his teammates a brother left, for the coaches a unique and exemplary player, for José Magalhães a son, for the other coaches and for FC Porto a handball legend and for the National Team a giant.
Moncho López was “crazy” with the triples
Alfredo Quintana had a gift for everything, but he won handball, a modality that he trained in a gym in Havana. However, in addition to roller hockey, with whose dragon players he also “played”, although without skates, the Portuguese-Cuban had an aptitude for basketball and volleyball as well.
The 2.01 meters help, of course, but the talent was there and Moncho López, coach of the basketball team, was amazed at the ease with which Quintana, practically without warming up or making any technical gesture before, scored seven / eight consecutive triples. .
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