Alfreð Gíslason

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Alfreð Gíslason
Alfreð Gíslason

Alfreð Gíslason on August 22, 2009

Player information
birthday 7th September 1959
place of birth Akureyri , Iceland
citizenship IcelandersIcelanders Icelandic
height 1.91 m
Playing position Back left
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1980 IcelandIceland KA Akureyri
1980-1983 IcelandIceland Knattspyrnufelag Reykjavík
1983-1988 GermanyGermany TUSEM food
1988-1989 IcelandIceland Reykjavík
1989-1991 SpainSpain Bidasoa Irun
1991-1995 IcelandIceland KA Akureyri
National team
  Games (goals)
IcelandIceland Iceland 190 (542)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
1991-1997 IcelandIceland KA Akureyri
1997-1999 GermanyGermany SG VfL / BHW Hameln
1999-2006 GermanyGermany SC Magdeburg
2006-2008 IcelandIceland Iceland
2006-2008 GermanyGermany VfL Gummersbach
2008-2019 GermanyGermany THW Kiel
2020– GermanyGermany Germany

As of March 16, 2020

Alfreð Gíslason ( [ˈalfrɛð ˈgislasɔn] ; born September 7, 1959 in Akureyri , Iceland ) is an Icelandic handball coach . He was a long-time coach at THW Kiel and is the coach of the German national team .

career

As an active player (back left), the historian and father of three Alfreð scored 542 goals in 190 international matches for Iceland and won the German championship twice with TUSEM Essen .

His first coaching station was the Icelandic club KA Akureyri (1991-1997). His first coaching station in Germany was with SG VfL / BHW Hameln for the 1997/98 season in the 1st  handball league . This season he rose as table-15. with the club and failed in the 1998/99 season in the promotion relegation at TV Willstätt . Then Alfreð Gíslason was dismissed and replaced by his assistant coach Frank-Michael Wahl . He had already announced his move to SC Magdeburg during the season . From July 1, 1999 to January 5, 2006 Alfreð was under contract as a coach at SC Magdeburg. In 2001 he was named Trainer of the Year.

His successor was his then assistant coach Gheorghe Licu until the end of the 2005/06 season . Alfreð had the German champions VfL Gummersbach already a coaching job from 1 July 2007, this occurred, however, already for the beginning of the season 2006/07, after his predecessor Velimir Kljaić was assigned for health and family reasons. In addition, Alfreð Gíslason coached the Icelandic national team until after the European Championship in 2008 , when Iceland was eliminated in the main round. Before the 2008/09 season he was bought out of his contract with VfL by THW Kiel . He was the first coach to win the Champions League with two different clubs: 2002 with SC Magdeburg, 2010 and 2012 with THW Kiel. After the 2018/19 season he gave up his coaching position at THW Kiel.

On February 6, 2020, the German Handball Federation (DHB) announced that Alfreð Gíslason will be the national coach of the German national team from March . Previously, Christian Prokop been dismissed by the DHB.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

literature

Web links

Commons : Alfreð Gíslason  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla
  2. ↑ Report from the handball week about Frank-Michael Wahl from November 3, 2005 ( Memento from December 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ sport.de: Confirmed: trainer icon Gislason leaves THW Kiel , accessed on June 30, 2019
  4. ↑ dhb.de: Alfred Gislason new national coach , accessed on February 6, 2020
Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Alfreð Gíslason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Akureyri , Iceland