Andreas Keller (hockey player)

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Andreas Keller (born October 1, 1965 in Berlin ) is a former German hockey player and three-time Olympic participant. He played a total of 226 times for the German national hockey team .

Career

The midfielder Andreas Keller played for the Berlin HC . In 1982 and 1988 he was German runner-up in the hall.

After Keller became junior world champion in 1982, he made his debut for the national team in 1983. In 1984 he won the European Indoor Championships. In the final of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , he faced the German team with the Pakistani team. After regular time ended 1-1, Pakistan made it 2-1 in extra time. In 1985, Keller became junior world champion again.

At the 1986 World Cup in London, the German team won bronze, just like a year later at the European Championships. In 1988, Keller was part of the winning team at the European Indoor Championships. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, the German team won Group B in the preliminary round, beating Great Britain 2-1. In the final, these two teams faced each other again and the British won 3-1, the German goal in the final was scored by Heiner Dopp .

At the 1990 World Cup , the German team finished fourth. In 1991 the team was once again European indoor champion. At his third Olympic start in 1992 in Barcelona , Andreas Keller was in the final for the third time. Against Australia a 2-1 was achieved with two goals from Michael Hilgers . After two Olympic silver medals and one gold medal, Keller ended his career as a player.

As a coach, Andreas Keller remained connected to the Berlin HC. In 2005 he won the German championship with the women's team.

family

At the Olympic Games in 1936 , Andreas Keller's grandfather Erwin Keller won a silver medal, the first ever medal for a German hockey team. His father Carsten Keller made his debut at the Olympic Games in 1960 and won Olympic gold in 1972 ; he ended his career as a German national record player. His siblings Natascha , 2004 Olympic champion , and Florian , 2008 Olympic champion , are also successful hockey players. In addition, Andreas' older brother, whose name is Thorsten, also played in the Bundesliga for Berliner HC, but, unlike his three younger siblings, was never called up to the national team.

When Andreas Keller won his first Olympic medal in 1984, he was only the third athlete to have succeeded in the third generation. The first family was the Norwegian sailing dynasty Lunde, in which Peder Lunde junior won Olympic gold in 1960. The second family was the Austro-Hungarian fencing dynasty Bogen-Gerevich, whose grandson Pál Gerevich won bronze in 1972.

With the Olympic silver medalist in hockey Anke Wild , Keller has the children Felix and Luca Wild. They also play hockey. Andreas Keller's wife Louisa Keller and his sister Natascha Keller won Olympic gold in hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

literature

  • Erich Kamper , Herbert Soucek: Olympic heroes. Portraits and anecdotes from 1896 to today. Spiridon-Verlag, Erkrath 1991, ISBN 3-922011-20-9 .
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 92. The German Olympic team. = The German Olympic team. = El equipo Olímpico alemán. Busche, Dortmund 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Record national players as of 2002 ( Memento from February 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin