Humberto Machacón
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| Full name | Humberto Junior Machacón Cabrera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Colombian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 October 1989 Barranquilla | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 198 cm (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 355 cm (140 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 335 cm (132 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Outside hitter/spiker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Humberto Junior Machacón Cabrera (born October 5, 1989)[citation needed] in Barranquilla[citation needed] is a professional volleyball player from Colombia.
He plays as an outside hitter in the Colombian national team and for TSV Herrsching in the German Volleyball Bundesliga.
Career
[edit]Machacón started his professional career in the Liga Vallecaucana de Voleibol in Cali, Colombia. At the age of 21 he was signed by CV Teruel[1] in the Spanish Superliga. With Teruel he won both the league and the cup.[2] He subsequently played for other European clubs in Greece's first league,[3] the Polish PlusLiga[4] and in Turkey.[5] In 2018 he was signed by TSV Herrsching.[6]
Machacón has been part of the Colombian national team since his youth. He participated and placed on the podium in several occasions, like the South American Games 2010, in the Bolivarian Games 2013, in the Southamerican Championship 2014 and in the Central American Games 2018.
References
[edit]- ^ "El Cai Teruel ficha al colombiano Machacon". Marca (in Spanish). Spain. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- ^ "Club Voleibol Teruel | Palmarés" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "Greek Volleyball News. Live score from A1 games, videos, photos, statistics and bet tips for A1, A2". greek-volley.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- ^ Media, Wirtualna Polska (2014-12-18). "Humberto Machacon zawodnikiem Effectora Kielce – WP SportoweFakty". sportowefakty.wp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- ^ "Sivas a Kolombiyalı smaçör | 1. ve 2. Lig | VoleybolunSesi". www.voleybolunsesi.com (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- ^ Freiburghaus, Katrin (2018). "Backmischung mit veränderter Rezeptur". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
External links
[edit]- Player profile at TSV Herrsching (de)
- Player profile at Volleyball Bundesliga (de)
- Player profile in the Central American Games 2018.
- Colombian sportspeople
- Colombian men's volleyball players
- Volleyball
- Living people
- 1989 births
- South American Games medalists in volleyball
- South American Games bronze medalists for Colombia
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in volleyball
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Colombia
- Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Sportspeople from Barranquilla
- Bolivarian Games bronze medalists for Colombia
- Bolivarian Games medalists in volleyball
- Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Expatriate volleyball players in Germany