Claude Onesta

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Claude Onesta
Claude Onesta at the European Handball Championship 2010

Claude Onesta (born February 6, 1957 in Albi ) is a former French handball player and was the coach of the French national handball team from 2001 to 2016 and is currently the manager of the French handball federation . With a total of eight gold medals, which he was able to win at major handball events within nine years, he is the most successful national coach in handball history to date. In addition, he is the only coach who simultaneously held all three major titles (Olympic victory, world and European championships), which he managed twice.

career

From the age of eleven Onesta played in youth at ASEAT / Stade toulousain / Sporting Toulouse 31, today Toulouse handball . He stayed with the club as a player until 1987. After that he was the team's coach until 2001. With the team, he was cup winner in 1998 and second in cup competition in 1999. In the EHF Champions League , he reached the semi-finals with Toulouse in 1999.

In 2001 Onesta succeeded Daniel Costantini as coach of the French national handball team. With his team, he was able to win all the important titles in world handball several times in the following years and even achieve a historic triple when he won the Olympic , world and European championships with his team between 2008 and 2010 . Before that, in 2006 he won the handball championship with the French selection. After the Russian Vladimir Salmanowitsch Maximow , Onesta is only the second coach who has managed to win all three big titles at least once with a national team. He was able to expand this series by winning the World Cup again in 2011 , when the French team was able to defeat Denmark in the final after extra time. It was also the first time since 1974 that a nation has successfully defended its World Cup title.

This winning streak broke during the European Championship 2012 , when the French team did not survive the main round and thus could not qualify for the semi-finals. It was the first time since the 2004 European Championship that the French team under Onesta missed a semi-final. The next major handball event, the 2012 Olympics in London , was won again by the French trained by Onesta. They defeated the Swedish selection in the final with 22:21 goals and thus secured the gold medal for the second time since 2008.

After a rather disappointing World Cup 2013 with the quarter-final K. o. Against Croatia , Onesta's team was able to rehabilitate themselves at the following European Championship 2014 and defeated the hosts Denmark in the final with 41:32 goals. At the following World Cup in Qatar in 2015 , he was able to win another world championship with the French selection and was thus world, European and Olympic champion for the second time in his career. It was Onesta's eighth major title to celebrate in nine years.

At the EM 2016 his team lost the last main round match against Norway with 24:29 goals and thus missed the semi-finals. At the subsequent Olympic Games in Rio , his team moved into the final again, but lost there to Denmark and was unable to defend the 2008 title a second time. In September 2016 Onesta gave up his coaching position for the French national team, he was succeeded by Didier Dinart and Guillaume Gille , whom he had previously coached himself. Onesta will remain with the association as a manager.

Others

After France's semi-final defeat by Germany at the 2007 World Cup in Germany , Onesta - like the Slovenian coach Kasim Kamenica and the Spanish coach Juan Carlos Pastor - criticized the referee's performance and even raised allegations of fraud. The relationship with his former German colleague Heiner Brand has been very cold since then.

Onesta is married and has two children. He is a cousin of the politician Gérard Onesta .

successes

Web links

Commons : Claude Onesta  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ liberation.fr: Claude Onesta hérite des champions du monde , accessed on January 30, 2017
  2. ↑ RP ONLINE: Handball EM: Spain in the semi-finals, France out. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ France beats Qatar 25:22 and is world champion. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ handball-world.com: Didier Dinart and Guillaume Gille French national coaches , accessed on September 28, 2016
  5. ↑ France coach raises fraud allegations. In: RP-Online from February 2, 2007
  6. ↑ E. Eggers: Mafiosi against bad losers. In: Spiegel-Online from January 21, 2008
  7. ↑ ladepeche.fr: Un Onesta peut en cacher un autre of March 6, 2010, accessed on April 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Onesta, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Albi