Anaitasuna center back Ander Torriko suffered three consecutive cruciate tears in his right knee, four operations and a desert of 1,044 days without playing an official match. “I don't know of another similar case in handball,” he says via video call.

After returning in a friendly in his town, in Zumaia, after the international break and there he was: two goals against Cuenca, four against Granollers, as many against Sinfín.