Heiner Brand (born 26 July 1952 in

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) is a former

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player. He was the

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coach from 1997 to 2011. He is the only person who has won the world handball championship both as a player (in 1978) and as a coach (in 2007).

Career as player

Heiner Brand joined at the age of seven the handball club

VfL Gummersbach VfL Gummersbach is a handball club from the Germany, German city of Gummersbach. Currently, VfL Gummersbach competes in the Handball-Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal. Gummersbach is one of the most successful team-handball clubs ever. Crest, colo ...

. He was with that club six times German champion (1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982 and 1983) and won four times the

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(1978, 1979, 1982 and 1983). He also became with that club internationally successful (European Cup winner in 1978 and 1979, European National Championship winner in 1974 in 1983, Super cup winner in 1979 and 1983, IHF cup winner in 1982). Heiner Brand was also successful in the

, where he played a total of 131 games and scored 231 goals, including one penalty throw. In 1976, he was a member of the West German team that finished fourth in the Olympic tournament in

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. He played all six matches and scored twelve goals. In 1978, he was the World champion at the

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. His first two international goals he scored in his first game for Germany was on July 1, 1974 in

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against

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Career as coach

Heiner Brand has been a long-time coach for

(1987–91 and 1994–96). In between, he was the coach for

SG Wallau-Massenheim SG Wallau-Massenheim is a team handball club from Wallau (which belongs to Hofheim) east of Wiesbaden, Germany. Currently, the club competes in the 2. Bundesliga Süd Accomplishments *Handball-Bundesliga: **1992, 1993 *DHB-Pokal: **1993, 1994 ...

(1992–94). Even before becoming a club coach, he was an assistant coach of the German national team (1984–87), in which he became the full-time coach on 1 January 1997. At the beginning of the new millennium, he raised the national team to the top. After the vice European Championship in 2002 and the vice World Cup in 2003, the DHB selection won in 2004 the European Championship and the same year the silver medal at the

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. It was announced on 24 October 2007 that Brand's contract of the National team with the DHB would be extended until 30 June 2013. However, it was announced on 16 May 2011 that his post of national coach would expire on 30 June 2011. The results were the tenth place at the 2010 European Championship and the eleventh place at the 2011 World Championship. It was the worst result in the history of the German National Championship. Since 1. Juli 2011 Martin Heuberger is the successor to Heiner Brand. Since 1 November 2004 Heuberger has been Assistant to Heiner Brand and Co-coach of the German National Handball team.

Personal life

Brand is married and has two children. He has two older brothers named Klaus (born 1942) and Jochen (born 1944). Both also played for the German national handball team. His trademark since the 1970s is his bushy

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Success as coach

*1984 :

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, silver medal (as assistant coach) *1988 : German Champion with VfL Gummersbach *1991 : German Champion with VfL Gummersbach *1993 : German Champion with SG Wallau-Massenheim *1993 : DHB cup winner with SG Wallau-Massenheim *1993 : European Champion finalist with SG Wallau-Massenheim *1994 : DHB cup winner with SG Wallau-Massenheim *1998 : Super cup winner with the national team *1998 : European Championship, third place *1999 : World Cup, fifth place *2000 :

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, fifth place *2001 : Super cup winner with the national team *2002 : Vice-European Champion, lost against

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*2003 : Vice-World Champion, lost against

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*2004 : European Champion against

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(biggest success since the 1978 World Cup in

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) *2004 :

, silver medal, lost again against Croatia *2006 : European Championship, fifth place *2007 : World Champion with the German national team against

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*2008 : European Championship, fourth place *2008 :

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, ninth place *2009 : World Cup, fifth place *2009 : Super cup winner with the national team *2010 : European Championship, tenth place *2011 : World Championship, eleventh place

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brand, Heiner 1952 births Living people West German male handball players Olympic handball players of West Germany Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics German handball coaches People from Gummersbach Sportspeople from Cologne (region) Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia