Ibish Thaqi

Ibish Thaqi

Ibish Thaqi
Player information
birthday	March 21, 1980
place of birth	Gjakova , Kosovo
citizenship	Austrian
height	1.79 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Union St. Pölten
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2000	Union St. Pölten
2000-2001	SG Handball West Vienna
2001-2005	UHC Tulln
2005-2006	UHK Krems
2006-2007	Alpla HC Hard
2007-2009	UHK Krems
2009-2011	Aon Fivers Margareten
2011–2012	Union St. Pölten
National team
	Games (goals)
Austria	12 (12)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2011-2016	Union St. Pölten
2017–	UHK Krems
As of March 18, 2014

Ibish Thaqi (* 21st March 1980 in Gjakova ) is a from the Kosovo originating handball player .

Career

As a player

The native Kosovar Albanian began his handball career with the then first division club St. Pölten. In 2000 he moved to UHK West Vienna. From 2001 he played at UHC Tulln with which he won the ÖHB Cup in 2003/2004 . A year later he was able to gain his first international experience in the EHF Cup Winners Cup . With the start of the 2005/2006 season, he moved to UHK Krems where he only stayed one year before he went to Alpla HC Hard in Vorarlberg . The 1.79 meter tall superstructure player only spent a year in Hard, and in the summer of 2007 he was signed back to the UHK Krems. Ibish Thaqi was part of the Aon Fivers Margareten squad since the 2009/2010 season . After winning the championship title with Aon Fivers Margareten in 2011, Ibish Thaqi moved to his original place of work, the St. Pölten handball club, from the 2011/2012 season.

For the Austrian national team he scored 12 goals in 12 games.

As a trainer

Since moving to Union St. Pölten in 2011 , Thaqi has been head coach , and in 2012 he ended his playing career. In his third season in the Handball Bundesliga Austria , he made promotion to the Handball League Austria with the Lower Austrians . In December 2016 he ended his engagement with the state capitals. From the 2017/18 season he will work as a trainer for UHK Krems .

Others

In addition to his work as a trainer, Thaqi has been running the "Café Restaurant Promenade" restaurant in St. Pölten since 2015.

HLA balance

season	society	Division	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2008/09	UHK Krems	HLA	114	43/61	71
2009/10	Handball club Fivers Margareten	HLA	140	36/48	104
2010/11	Handball club Fivers Margareten	HLA	183	73/103	110
2008-2011	total	HLA	437	152 (71%)	285

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion (with the Aon Fivers)
• 1 × Austrian Cup winner (with the UHC Tulln)

Web links

• Ibish Thaqi in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ibish Thaqi: Five Questions - Five Answers , accessed April 3, 2015
2. ↑ Ibish Thaqi in the UHC Tulln squad ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 28, 2011) 
3. ↑ Player profile on eurohandball.com (accessed April 28, 2011)
4. ↑ Player profile on the Aon Fivers site  ( site no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 28, 2011)  
5. ↑ Player profile on oehb.at (accessed on April 28, 2011)
6. ↑ Ibish Thaqi takes over in Krems in the summer. laola1.at, March 3, 2017, accessed on March 3, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Beate Steiner: St. Pölten handball star becomes host. noen.at, July 30, 2015, accessed on July 31, 2015 .