Kai Wandschneider

Kai Wandschneider

Kai Wandschneider in an interview with Sport1 on February 8, 2014
Player information
birthday	November 2, 1959
place of birth	Hamburg , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.76 m
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1975-1988	Bayer Leverkusen
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1981-1985	TV Rodt-Müllenbach
1985-1987	TuS Niederpleis
1987-1988	TuS Derschlag
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1988-1990	CVJM Oberwiehl
1990-1992	DJK Hürth Gleuel
1993-2001	TV Jahn Cologne-Wahn
2001-2010	TSV Dormagen
2010-2011	DHC Rhineland
2012–	HSG Wetzlar
As of July 24, 2017

Kai Wandschneider  (born  November 2,  1959  in  Hamburg ) is a  German  handball trainer  and former  handball player .

Life

Wandschneider has been a trainer since he was 28 years old. He studied psychology and sport in Cologne, gained journalistic experience during and shortly after his time as an active handball player, and in 1999 he obtained his trainer A license.

In 2001 he took over at TSV Bayer Dormagen. He led the team from Regionalliga West in 2002 by   winning the West German Championship in the  2nd Bundesliga . As champions of the 2nd Bundesliga South , the team rose to the 1st division in 2008. In Dormagen, Wandschneider trained and shaped the French world and Olympic champion Kentin Mahé and well-known German players such as Adrian Pfahl , Jens Vortmann and Maximilian Holst . At the end of the 2011 season, Wandschneider left the handball players Dormagens, now trading as DHC Rheinland.

In March 2012, Wandschneider took over the  Bundesliga club  HSG Wetzlar . In Wetzlar, Wandschneider managed to stay in the league in 2012 and landed with the team in the top third of the table several times in the period that followed. In Wetzlar, Wandschneider trained several other national players in Tobias Reichmann , Steffen Fäth , Philipp Weber , Kevin Schmidt , Jannik Kohlbacher and Andreas Wolff . Wolff, Fäth and Kohlbacher made sure that no other top division club was represented on the field for the German team as long as HSG Wetzlar when they won the 2016 European Championship of the DHB selection in Poland.

In 2009 and 2013, Wandschneider was in charge of  the DKB Handball Bundesliga team  in the  All-Star Game  as assistant coach. In 2013 and 2017 he was voted  “Coach of the Season”  .

source

Commons : Kai Wandschneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• F. Schneller: You always have a chance. In: Handballwoche 19, 2009, pp. 24-25.