Arnulf Meffle

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Arnulf Meffle (born December 1, 1957 in Langhurst ) is a former German national handball player . The 1.84 m tall right winger completed a total of 71 international matches from 1977 to 1984, in which he scored 117 goals. In the Bundesliga he scored 641 goals in 270 Bundesliga games for TuS Hofweier , making him the club's record player and second-best goalscorer in the single-track Bundesliga.

Career

His career began at TuS Schutterwald , where he became a youth national player in 1972. With TuS Hofweier, Meffle became German runner-up in 1979. In 1987 he moved as the second German international professional after Erhard Wunderlich to Racing Club Strasbourg (1st division France), but returned to TuS Hofweier for the 1988/89 season. With the descent and the subsequent dissolution of TuS Hofweier after the end of the 1989 season, Meffle's Bundesliga career ended.

Arnulf Meffle was part of the German world championship team from 1978 . In the following years, however, he only played sporadically in the national team. Of his 71 international matches, he played 30 games in 1984, in which he won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles with the German national team .

Coaching

For several years he coached the TS Ottersweier women's team, which played in the regional league. Since 2008 Arnulf Meffle has been an A youth trainer at TuS Schutterwald.

Private

Arnulf Meffle is a member of the support group of the Südbadischer Handball eV and of emadeus. His daughter Teresa plays as a handball goalkeeper for TS Ottersweier. Arnulf Meffle lives in Neuried in the Ortenau and works as a teacher.

Meffle contracted leukemia in 2012 .

Titles and awards

  • World Champion 1978
  • Silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games
  • Silver bay leaf
  • 1985 Appointment to the world selection
  • Election to the team of the century
  • Team of the year 1978

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Individual evidence

  1. oA, Handball '99, Berlin 1999, p. 11
  2. Handball players support Arnulf Meffle in the fight against leukemia