Bjorn Monnberg

Bjorn Monnberg

Player information
Nickname	" Flying Finn "
birthday	7th February 1971
place of birth	Helsinki , Finland
citizenship	Finnish
height	1.78 m
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1988-1992	Helsingfors IFK
1992-1997	Thick Helsinki
1997-2005	HSG Wetzlar
National team
Debut on	1989
	Games (goals)
Finland	135 (566)
Status: national team November 4, 2013

Björn Monnberg (born February 7, 1971 in Helsinki ) is a former Finnish handball player . The right winger is considered to be one of the best players in Finnish handball history and is still the record national player in the country today. In 2003 and 2004 he was voted handball player of the year in Finland.

With the club Dicken from Helsinki he won the Finnish championship in 1993. In 1997 Monnberg moved to Germany as a professional handball player at HSG Wetzlar , where he played for a total of eight years. There he played over 250 competitive games (including 229 Bundesliga games) and scored more than a thousand goals (including 821 in the Bundesliga). Among other things, he reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup with the club in 1998 .

Monnberg played 135 international matches for Finland, more than any other player. At times as captain of the national team, he scored a total of 566 goals. Monnberg was elected to the All-Star-Game of the Handball Bundesliga in 2003 and 2004 . He ended his career as a handball player in 2005.

From 2006 to 2007 Monnberg was assistant coach of the Finnish national team. Today he works as a physiotherapist and personal trainer .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suomen miesten maajoukkue - pelatut A-maaottelut 1947-2013 , accessed on September 1, 2014
2. ↑ users.abo.fi: Finnish team handball player of the year , accessed October 6, 2017
3. ↑ Handball week , special issue 2/2005, p. 83
4. ↑ Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung , June 21, 2008: "It's enough for snowballs"