:''This article may be expanded with text from WikiProject Volleyball:To do – biographies'' Avital Haim Selinger (born 10 March 1959 in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

, Israel) is a retired

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player and head coach, who twice represented the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

at the

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

and

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

. He is the son of volleyball coach

Arie Selinger Aryeh "Lonk" Selinger (born 5 April 1937) is an Israeli volleyball manager and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time. Selinger has served as the head coach of the USA Women's Team in the years ...

. After taking the command as head coach of the Swiss club Voléro Zürich in April 2015, he guided them to the bronze medal at the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship.

References

1959 births Living people Dutch men's volleyball players Israeli men's volleyball players Israeli Jews Israeli emigrants to the Netherlands Dutch Jews Dutch volleyball coaches Israeli volleyball coaches Jewish Dutch sportspeople Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of the Netherlands Jewish volleyball players Olympic medalists in volleyball Sportspeople from Haifa Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Volleyball coaches of international teams {{Netherlands-volleyball-bio-stub

See also

References