Christian Prokop

Christian Prokop

Christian Prokop (2018)
Player information
birthday	December 24, 1978
place of birth	Koethen , GDR
citizenship	German
height	1.90 m
Playing position	Back left
	Back center
Throwing hand	right left
Club information
society	without a club
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1998	SV Anhalt Bernburg
1998-2000	Dessau AGM
2000-2001	HC Wuppertal
2001-2003	GWD Minden
2003-2003	HG 85 Koethen
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2003-2004	Eintracht Hildesheim
2005-2006	MTV Braunschweig
2006-2009	TSV Hannover-Anderten
2009-2011	SC Magdeburg II
2011–11 / 2012	SV Post Schwerin
11 / 2012–2013	TUSEM food
2013-2017	SC DHfK Leipzig
2017–2 / 2020	Germany
As of June 3, 2020

Christian Prokop (born December 24, 1978 in Koethen ) is a German handball trainer and former handball player .

Player career

As a left backcourt player , Prokop worked from 1998 to 2000 for the then second division team Dessauer HV , from here he moved to the first division for HC Wuppertal for the 2000/01 season , and then from 2001 to 2003 to GWD Minden . He played a total of 41 Bundesliga games in which he was able to score 80 goals, 8/16 of which for Wuppertal and 33/64 for Minden. For the German Handball Federation (DHB) he was used seven times in the B national team between 1999 and 2002 , whereby the tournament game of the Sparkasse Cup 2003 against the A team of the DHB is not counted as an international game. In the six official B internationals, he scored 14 goals and scored at least once in every encounter.

After a serious knee injury, which Christian Prokop had sustained in a B international match against Egypt in March 1999, the right-handed player switched his style of play to left-handed to protect his left knee. Due to the personal situation at Minden in his new position in the right backcourt, Prokop was only used on the first Bundesliga matchday for Minden against HSV Hamburg in the 2002/03 season, and his contract was not extended at the end of the season, which is why he then went to Regional league team HG 85 Koethen , which his father Heinz Prokop trained.

Coaching career

Christian Prokop acquired the A license as a trainer of the DHB in 2003 and initially trained two youth teams at Eintracht Hildesheim until 2004 . From March 2005 he worked as a trainer for MTV Braunschweig in the then regional league. From 2006 he coached the first men's team of TSV Hannover-Anderten , with which he managed to move up from the regional league to the second division. In 2009 he moved to the second team of SC Magdeburg , which he coached until the end of the 2010/11 season. From the 2011/12 season he took over the coaching position at SV Post Schwerin . After the insolvency of the club, he became the coach of Bundesliga club TUSEM Essen on November 19, 2012 , where he received a contract that was also valid for the 2nd Bundesliga. After he was relegated to TUSEM at the end of the 2013 season, the contract was terminated by mutual agreement; Prokop moved to SC DHfK Leipzig for the 2013/14 season . In the 2015/16 season he was voted coach of the season .

At the beginning of February 2017 it was announced that Prokop had been selected by the DHB as the new trainer of the German national handball team, taking over from the Icelandic Dagur Sigurðsson . As of July 1, 2017, Prokop received a five-year contract with no exit clause. It was officially presented at the Allstar Games on February 3, 2017 in Leipzig. The first game under his direction took place on March 18, 2017 in Gothenburg against Sweden (result 25:27), the first competitive game on May 3, 2017 in Ljubljana against Slovenia . On February 6, 2020, he was released from his duties as national coach of the German national team. Prokop supervised the DHB selection in a total of 53 A international matches, of which 38 were won and ten lost. Five matches ended in a draw. After Dagur Sigurdsson , Prokop is only the second national coach to achieve an average of more than 1.5 points per game (1.528 - Sigurdsson: 1.581). In terms of the victory rate (71.7%), too, he achieved the second-best value of all previous national coaches, behind Sigurdsson (77.42%).

Others

In addition to sports, Christian Prokop completed a bachelor's degree for teaching primary, secondary and secondary schools in the subjects of sports and economics at the University of Hildesheim from 2004 to 2007 ; He completed the subsequent master’s course in 2009. In June 2011 the internship at the secondary sports school in Magdeburg ended .

Private

Prokop is married and has a daughter and a son.

literature

• Christian Prokop in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Christian Prokop  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christian Prokop on the website of the German Handball Federation , accessed on October 30, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} roster of opponents Dessauer AGM 1996 1998/99 season on archiv.thw-handball.de, accessed on November 2, 2016
2. ↑ Opponent squad HC Wuppertal 2000/2001 season on archiv.thw-handball.de, accessed on November 2, 2016
3. Jump up ↑ GWD Minden season 2001/2002 on archiv.thw-handball.de, accessed on November 2, 2016
4. ↑ Opponents GWD Minden season 2003/2004 on archiv.thw-handball.de, accessed on November 2, 2016
5. ↑ Portrait of the new national coach: analyst and "heart person" - Prokop is similar to Sigurdsson on handball-world.com, accessed on February 3, 2017
6. ↑ ^{a b} A comeback with links on welt.de from April 20, 2003, accessed on April 17, 2013
7. ↑ ^{a b} Paste with feeling on spiegel.de from May 5, 2003, accessed on April 17, 2013
8. ↑ Flying change at MTV on braunschweiger-zeitung.de, from April 1, 2005
9. ↑ First coach change of the season on handball-world.com on November 19, 2012
10. ↑ handball-world.com: TUSEM: Dragunski becomes Prokop's successor - three players on the jump from June 3, 2013, accessed on June 11, 2013
11. ↑ Handball: Prokop will be the new national handball coach at sportschau.de, February 3, 2017 (accessed on February 3, 2017).
12. ↑ dhb.de: Alfred Gislason new national coach , accessed on February 6, 2020