Helmut Kosmehl

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Helmut Kosmehl (born September 27, 1944 in Magdeburg ) is a former German handball player , and at times also a football player, as well as a football and handball trainer. As an active handball player, he and VfL Gummersbach have won the European Champions Cup several times .

On April 28, 1967, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf for winning the European Cup of National Champions.

He then moved to football, where he was after two Bundesliga appearances and a trip to Switzerland, where he in Winterthur at the same time football coach of FC Winterthur and handball player of Pfadi Winterthur was. He then made a name for himself as coach of exotic national soccer teams such as Mauritius , Seychelles , Dominica and Taiwan . He was also able to win the Finnish Cup as a handball coach together with Helsingfors IFK and was in charge of the Qatar national handball team .

Career

Helmut Kosmehl was born on September 27, 1944 in Magdeburg and attended the children's and youth sports school there . In 1960 he was GDR champion in javelin throwing among juniors.

Handball player

Even before he fled to West Germany, Kosmehl played in the GDR men's national handball team . After fleeing to Germany, he played handball at VfL Gummersbach from 1964 . Together with Gummersbach, Kosmehl won in 1967, 1970, 1971 and 1974 the highest title in European club handball with the European Champion's Cup , plus other championship titles.

Kosmehl played 14 international matches for the German national team , scoring 27 goals. However, since he played selection for the GDR even before his flight to West Germany, the consequence for him was that he could not travel to away games in Eastern Bloc countries . Even the use of various politicians could not help at that time.

From handball player to soccer coach on a journey

In 1975/76 he was in the second division soccer team of Spandauer SV twice after they had previously lost the first 14 games in the championship.

In 1976 he went to Switzerland and was hired by the handball club Pfadi Winterthur , who, however, dispensed with the Germans again after a few games, as this has proven to be an "egocentric trouble spot" according to the club's history. At the same time he was for the 1976/77 season as the successor to Rainer Ohlhauser coach of the FC Winterthur football club . As coach of FC Winterthurs, Kohlmehl was released during the winter break after the club had finished last in the National League A. His successor as interim trainer was the technical director Werner Schley , who already exercised this function in the spring of 1976.

From Switzerland he was appointed coach of the Qatari national handball team, which was preparing for the Asian Games in 1982 . This engagement was later extended to the men's handball world championship in 1986 , but Kosmehl left Qatar earlier. From 1985 to 1986 Kosmehl was coach of the Mauritian national soccer team together with Mohammad Anwar Elahee and won the 2nd Indian Ocean Island Games with them. In 1987 he led the Taiwanese women's national team to the title in the last unofficial world championship.

He then made another excursion to handball and was coach of Helsingfors IFK in Finland , with whom he won the Finnish Cup in the 1987/88 season.

In April 1991 he returned to football and took over the club Spear Motors FC in Uganda together with Bidandi SSali and Peter Mazinga as assistant coaches. He remained his coach until December, when he was dismissed during his vacation in Germany due to unrest within the club. As soon as he was sold at Spears, he took over the second division club FC Stahl Brandenburg in January 1992 , which was in a relegation battle at the time. After just five games with two draws and three defeats, he was released in April. During his training, the professionals should have danced to African music, among other things. After joining Stahl Brandenburg, he was again the national coach of an exotic football nation, this time from the Seychelles national team , with whom he took part in the Indian Ocean Island Games in 1993 and which finished the tournament in 4th of 5th places.

In January 2000, he received 20,000 US dollars in solidarity funds from the IOC Olympic Solidarity Commission, which he was to use to build a coaching structure for football in the island state of Dominica . During this engagement, he also stood on the sidelines twice as coach of Dominica's national team during World Cup qualification. However, at the end of April he was prematurely released by the Dominican Olympic Committee because he did not meet the requirements.

In 2008, Kosmehl was appointed director of their newly established youth academy by the South African club AmaZulu FC .

Successes (selection)

  • as a handball player:
  • as national football coach:
  • as a handball coach:
    • Won the Finnish Cup with Helsingfors IFK in 1988

Individual evidence

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  2. history. Sportgymnasium Magdeburg, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on February 13, 2017 .
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  10. ^ Dans les Comités Nationaux Olympiques . In: Revue olympique . No. 181 , November 1982, pp. 702 (French, library.la84.org [PDF; 180 kB ; accessed on February 13, 2017]).
  11. a b Cafouillage dans la surface. L'Express (Mauritius), October 8, 2008, accessed June 6, 2014 (French).
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  13. "Development in women's football is much too slow". Deutschlandfunk , accessed on July 16, 2011 .
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  17. "The greatest fool of all time". In: Sportbuzzer. Märkische Allgemeine , November 16, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2017 .
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  20. ^ Dominican Olympic Committee (ed.): Annual report of the Dominican Olympic Committee executive . to the 4th annual general meeting for the period ending December 31, 2000 in the olympic quadrennial (1997-200). No. 8 (English, doc.dm [PDF; 178 kB ; accessed on February 14, 2017]).
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