Frank Carstens

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Frank Carstens
Player information
birthday September 26, 1971
place of birth Rotenburg (Wümme) , Germany
citizenship GermanGerman German
height 1.86 m
Throwing hand right
Club information
society GWD Minden GWD Minden
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1991 GermanyGermany VfL Oldenburg
1991-1995 GermanyGermany TV Grambke-Bremen
1995-1996 GermanyGermany HC 93 Bad Salzuflen
1996-2000 GermanyGermany TV Grambke-Bremen
2000-2003 GermanyGermany TSV GWD Minden
2003-2006 GermanyGermany OHV Aurich
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2006-2007 GermanyGermany OHV Aurich
2007-2010 GermanyGermany TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
2010-2013 GermanyGermany SC Magdeburg
2011-2013 GermanyGermany Germany (assistant coach)
2015– GermanyGermany GWD Minden

Status: February 24, 2015

Frank Carstens (born September 26, 1971 in Rotenburg (Wümme) ) is a former German handball player and current trainer . He is the son of Jürgen Carstens , who was the coach of the Wilhelmshavener HV among others . During his time in Bremen , Frank Carstens met his current wife. The couple now have four children together.

Career

Carstens started his career at VfL Oldenburg before moving to TV Grambke-Bremen . His nine-year engagement there was only interrupted by a move to Bad Salzuflen . Playing with the team from the north-west of Bremen in the 2nd Bundesliga , in 2000 he accepted an offer from TSV GWD Minden to join the Bundesliga . In the 2002/2003 season , however, a protracted injury affected him. Because of a thrombosis in his shoulder diagnosed at the end of October 2002 , he had to take blood-thinning medication for a period of four months. His sporting future initially seemed uncertain. In the summer of 2003 it was initially said that he would switch to the regional league at ATSV habenhausen - and thus back to Bremen; however, this rumor turned out to be a hoax. Instead, he moved to OHV Aurich at the end of April 2003 . For the 2004/2005 season he was promoted to the second Bundesliga with the team . In 2006 Carstens ended his active career. In the same year he took part with the German national beach handball team in the European beach handball championship , in which Germany took fourth place.

He switched sides and was responsible for the East Frisians as coach in the 2006/2007 season . Although he was responsible for the season end position in fourth place in the table, the club separated from him after only one year for financial reasons. Carstens was then signed a little later by the second division TSV Hannover-Burgdorf . In January 2009, as the best of his year, he obtained the Trainer A license from the German Handball Federation . A few months later, under his sporting direction, the team decided the second leg of the promotion relegation against TSG Friesenheim wafer-thin - only because of the away goals rule - and thus qualified for the first Bundesliga. On December 30th of the same year it was announced that Carstens - who still had a contract dated until 2011 in Burgdorf - was moving to league competitor SC Magdeburg on July 1st, 2010 as the successor to Michael Biegler . He worked there until December 2013. In February 2015 he took over the coaching position of the Bundesliga club GWD Minden .

In addition to his work as head coach at SC Magdeburg, Carstens also took over the position of co-trainer at the German national handball team from September 2011 , which he resigned in January 2013 for professional and family reasons.

Awards / successes

As a player
  • Bremen Sportsman of the Year : 1997
  • Promotion to the second Bundesliga: 2004
  • German university champion with the University of Bremen in 1998 and 1999
As a trainer
  • Promotion to the Bundesliga: 2009, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handball: 60 times national goalkeeper and first division player strengthen OHV ( Memento from May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ handball-world.news: #HandballHistory: German women's national team wins gold in the sand of Cuxhaven on June 20, 2020, accessed on June 20, 2020
  3. ↑ Tim Burchardt: "Does coach Carstens change to Magdeburg?" In [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] on December 29, 2009. Retrieved on August 29, 2011 at neuepresse.de
  4. ^ SC Magdeburg separates from coach Carstens on handball-world.com on December 17, 2013, accessed on December 17, 2013
  5. ↑ Minden with a change of coach: Perkovac makes room for ex-players on handball-world.com from February 24, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2015
  6. ↑ Carstens resigns as assistant coach of the national team on handball-world.com from January 25, 2013, accessed on February 22, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Carstens, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg (Wümme)