Herbert Müller (born 3 September 1962 in

Timișoara Timișoara (, , ; , also or ; ; ; see #Etymology, other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural center in Western Romania. Located on the Bega (Tisza), Bega River, Timișoara is consider ...

) is a Romanian-German

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coach and former handball player. He is currently in charge of

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of the German Bundesliga, and beside his club duties he also serves as the head coach of the

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Career

He was born to ethnic

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parents, Franz and Anna Müller in Timișoara, and started to play handball for the local team Poli Timișoara in 1976. Four years later he left the country with his family because of the hard times under the communist regime in Romania and settled in Germany. He continued his playing career at

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, where he ended his career in 1988. He began coaching in 1984 at Augsburg, while he was still a player. In 1999 he took the hot seat of 1. FC Nürnberg Handball, with whom he achieved his biggest successes, winning two domestic championships and two domestic cup titles. He also won the

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in 2004. In 2008, Müller became the head coach of the Romanian team Rulmentul Brașov. He spent a year and a half with Rulmentul before the club developed financial problems. Müller moved back to Germany, signing for

in July 2010. He brought the

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title and the German Cup to THC in 2011 for the first time in the history of the club.

Personal life

He is in relationship with the Thüringer HC player Petra Popluhárová. They have two children together. He also has two daughters, Nadia (born 2001) and Vanessa (born 2007) from a previous relationship. His brother, Helfried, is also a

expert, serving as the assistant coach of Thüringer HC. Müller was a mathematics docent at the ''Institut für Integration'' in

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References

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