Xavier Pascual Fuertes

{{short description|Spanish handball player and coach (born 1968)}}

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{{Infobox handball biography

| name = Xavier Pascual

| image = Xavier Pascual Fuertes.jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Pascual Fuertes in 2014.

| fullname = Xavier Pascual Fuertes

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|3|8|df=y}}

| birth_place = Barcelona, Spain

| nationality = Spanish

| height =

| currentclub =

| position = Goalkeeper

| youthclubs = Barcelona

| years1 = 1986–1987

| clubs1 = Barcelona

| years2 = 1987–1989

| clubs2 = BM Palautordera

| years3 = 1989–1991

| clubs3 = Barcelona

| years4 = 1991–1994

| clubs4 = SD Teucro

| years5 = 1994–1995

| clubs5 = CD Ademar León

| years6 = 1995–1996

| clubs6 = BM Guadalajara

| years7 = 1996–1997

| clubs7 = BM Gáldar

| years8 = 1997–1999

| clubs8 = BM Chapela

| years9 = 1999–2005

| clubs9 = SD Octavio Vigo

| manageryears1 = 2009–2021

| managerclubs1 = FC Barcelona

| manageryears2 = 2016–2018

| managerclubs2 = Romania

| manageryears3 = 2021–2024

| managerclubs3 = Dinamo București

| manageryears4 = 2021–2024

| managerclubs4 = Romania

| manageryears5 = 2024–

| managerclubs5 = ONE Veszprém

}}

Xavier Pascual Fuertes (born 8 March 1968){{cite web|url=https://www.fcbarcelona.cat/seccions/handbol/primer-equip/plantilla/jugadors/2016-2017/xavi-pascual-fuertes|title=Xavi Pascual Profile|publisher=fcbarcelona.cat|access-date=5 October 2016|language=es}} is a Spanish former handball player and current coach. He is one of the most successful handball coaches.

On 9 February 2009, he replaced Manolo Cadenas as head coach of Barcelona. Contemporaneously with his club job, he has been also coaching the Romania men's national handball team since June 6, 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.frh.ro/stire.php?id=494|title=ECHIPA NAȚIONALĂ DE SENIORI ARE UN NOU ANTRENOR|publisher=Romanian Handball Federation|date=6 June 2016|language=ro}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eurohandball.com/article/026183/Xavi+Pascual+to+coach+Romania%E2%80%99s+men%E2%80%99s+national+team|title=Xavi Pascual to coach Romania's men's national team|publisher=European Handball Federation|date=8 June 2016|language=ro}} In June 2018, Pascual resigned as Romania coach.{{cite web|url=https://www.digisport.ro/handbal/xavier-pascual-a-demisionat-de-la-nationala-romaniei-spaniolul-a-dat-vina-pe-barcelona-463634|title=Xavier Pascual a demisionat de la naționala României! Spaniolul a dat vina pe Barcelona|publisher=digisport.ro|date=13 June 2018|language=ro}}