Josef Jakob (handball player)

Josef Jakob

Player information
birthday	September 11, 1939
place of birth	Carani , Romania
citizenship	Romanian
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1955-1956	Electromotor Timișoara
1956-1957	Progresul Timișoara
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1957-1963	Tehnometal Timișoara
1963-1971	Steaua Bucharest
National team
Debut on	1962
against	Denmark
	Games (goals)
Romania	45 (121)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1971-1975	LTV Wuppertal
1975-1977	HTV Remscheid
1977-1988	RTV Remscheid
1979-1979	TS Esslingen 1890
1980-1982	TSV Scharnhausen
1982-1985	Wernau sports fans
1985-1991	TSV Neuhausen
1992-1993	TSV RSK Esslingen
1994-1995	TSV Neuhausen
1997-1999	TSV Denkendorf
As of January 2, 2019

Josef Jakob (born September 11, 1939 in Carani ( German  Mercydorf ), Kingdom of Romania ) is a former Romanian handball player and handball trainer . His greatest successes are winning the handball world championship, World Cup bronze and winning the European Cup. There are also six national championship titles with Steaua Bucharest . Jakob was considered the best right winger in the world in the mid-1960s. His specialty were fast-paced counter attacks and goal area passes to the outside player positioned opposite or to the circle . Jakob scored 121 goals in 45 international matches.

Player career

Adolescent years

Josef Jakob attended elementary school in his home town of Carani (1947–1953). As a sixth grade student, Jakob once played in the Caranier field handball team against the team from Orțișoara as right winger . From 1953 to 1955 he began teacher training at the Pedagogical Lyceum in Timișoara . He broke this off when Alexander Hof-Codreanu brought him to Electromotor Timișoara in the regional league in 1955. In the same year, the coach moved with the entire team to Progresul Timișoara. With the regional league he finished second behind CFR Timișoara.

First League

1957 Jakob moved to Tehnometal Timișoara in the first division. There was Adam Fischer from Tomnatic his coach . After the change, Josef Jakob was appointed to the youth national team for the first time. After a long training camp in Sighișoara and Bucharest , the youth team played two games in Poland on the large field. At Tehnometal, Jakob played handball on the large field for three years. In 1960, operations began on the small field. With the switch from large to small fields, the older generation stopped.

In 1962 the Bucharest Steaua made the first attempt to approach Jakob. The army club asked the right wing, in the team at the Spartakiade join the army club. From 1964 to 1966 Jakob was runner-up with the Army Club. Steaua strengthened itself with Dieter Christenau, Ion Marinescu, Gheorghe Goran and Ion Popescu, whereupon Steaua Bucharest became champion again. In 1968 Jakob and Steaua won the European Cup with a 13:11 in the final of Frankfurt am Main against Dukla Prague . In the same year Jakob was appointed to the world selection together with the Bucharest backcourt player Gruia. The next few years were crowned with success. The Army Sports Club was champion four times in a row from 1968 to 1971.

National player

In 1962 Jakob was invited to the national team for the first time . When Jakob joined Steaua, Hans-Günther Schmidt was already with the Army Club. Almost at the same time as Jakob, Gheorghe Gruia was brought to the handball team. The three new players immediately helped the team to their first championship title on the small field. In 1963 Ioan Kunst-Ghermănescu became national coach.

In November 1963, the national players were called to a five-month training camp that served to prepare for the World Cup in early March 1964 and lasted until the beginning. This preparation time was only interrupted by short trips and games in Germany and Switzerland . In 1963 Hans-Günther Schmidt left for the Federal Republic of Germany. But even without him, Romania defended its world title in Czechoslovakia .

Coaching career

In 1971 Jakob became a player-coach for the German regional league team LTV Wuppertal , to whom he stayed for four years. He then trained the national league clubs HTV Remscheid and RTV Remscheid. In 1979 Jakob took over the coaching position of the Esslingen gymnastics club . After Esslingen fired him after a year, he became a player-coach at the upper division TSV Scharnhausen , which he led into the regional league. Between 1982 and 1985 he worked for the Wernauer Sportfreunde district division. Jakob then took over the coaching position for six years at the then district league club TSV Neuhausen , which he led into the association league. After a brief stint in Bernhausen, he coached RSK Esslingen in the 1992/93 season and then returned to TSV Neuhausen, where he leads the second men's team from the District League II to the District League. In 1997 he took over the coaching position at TSV Denkendorf, which he led from the district league to the state league. In 1999 Jakob ended his coaching activity.

Because Jakob decided not to return to Romania in 1972, he was sentenced to five years in prison as a deserter in absentia.

Award

In 2009 Jakob was awarded the Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" second class by Romanian President Traian Băsescu .

literature

• Johann Steiner: Handball story (s): Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians pave the way for Romania to win seven world championship titles. ADZ, Bucharest 2003, ISBN 973-8384-12-5 .

Web links

• Siebenbürgische Zeitung of February 3, 2003, stories about handball in Transylvania (XXI)
• Banat cultural area - personalities - athletes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stories about handball in Transylvania (XXI). Retrieved January 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Romania honors its handball world champions. Retrieved April 27, 2011 .