Aria Selinger

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Selinger in 1988 in Amsterdam

Arie Selinger (born April 5, 1937 in Krakow , Poland ) is an Israeli volleyball coach .

Life

Selinger was born in Poland and spent 1942–45 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before emigrating to Palestine . He was a member of the Israeli national volleyball team from 1954 to 1963 and an active player in the first division until 1969.

As the coach of the Israeli national women's volleyball team in the 1960s, Selinger introduced new types of faster offensive systems, including cross and combination attacks.

In 1975 he took over the position of head coach for the American women's volleyball team . Immediately before the boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow by Western nations, Selinger and his team had a gold medal favorite for the upcoming games. But the American team refused to start this year on the instructions of US President Jimmy Carter .

Four years later, Selinger's US team won the silver medal in Los Angeles in 1984, the first ever Olympic volleyball medal for an American women's team. In 1992 in Barcelona , the Dutch men's volleyball team trained by Selinger won the Olympic silver medal. From 1992 to 2006 he coached the Japanese women's national team and from 2007 to 2016 again the Israeli women.

In 1995 Selinger was inducted into the " Volleyball Hall of Fame ".

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personal data
SURNAME Selinger, aria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli volleyball coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow , Poland