Lee Hee-wan

Lee Hee-wan
portrait
Date of birth	January 15, 1956
place of birth	Yesan , South Korea
size	1.87 m
position	Player
societies
1977–1980 1981–1985 1987–1991 1991–1994	Goldstar Volleyball VBC Paderborn Bayer 04 Leverkusen SV Bayer Wuppertal
National team
1975-1979	A national team

Korean spelling
Hangeul	이희완
Hanja	李喜 完
Revised Romanization	I Hui-wan
McCune- Reischauer	Yi Hai-wan
See also : Korean name

Lee Hee-wan (born January 15, 1956 in Seoul , † May 26, 2011 in Leverkusen ) was a South Korean national volleyball player and coach.

Life

After first winning titles with the team from Sungkyunkwan University , Lee completed a three-year military service, during which he played successfully for the South Korean military selection. This was followed by over 100 appointments for the national team, with which he achieved fourth place in 1978, the best place ever for a South Korean men's national team at a volleyball world championship . Lee led the team as captain to win the silver medal at the Asian Cup in 1979 in Manama ; In the same year he won the Universiade in Mexico City with the South Korean student selection and shortly afterwards graduated as a physical education teacher. From 1980 to 81 he played for the company team of the Goldstar group, with which he was also a guest in Germany.

Lee, who was still playing in the middle block position at the time, was referred to VBC Paderborn in 1981 by the then coach of the German women's national team , Dai Hee Park , and became one of the dominant players in Germany. In 1985 Lee was voted volleyball player of the year and moved to Fortuna Bonn , then in 1987 to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . There he won the cup in 1988 and German champion for the first time in 1989. In 1991, the entire team moved from Leverkusen to Bayer Wuppertal . There he was twice German champion and once cup winner.

From 1993 to 1995 he graduated from the Sports University in Cologne to become a certified sports teacher, which he began in the early 1980s at the University of Paderborn .

In 1999 Lee took over the coaching of the German women's national team from Siegfried Köhler and interim coach Axel Büring and led the team to EM bronze in 2003 and to the surprising qualifications for the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004. On March 22, 2006 Lee resigned due to disagreements with the clubs the Bundesliga back from office. In the 2010/11 season he was part of the team around head coach Zhong Yu Zhou at Bayer 04 Leverkusen women's second division .

Lee Hee-wan died on May 26, 2011 in Leverkusen after a serious illness.

As a player, Lee was called the “ Karajan of volleyball” and as a coach he was described as “nine letters - ten fingers”.

Success as a player

• German champion: 1989, 1990 (Bayer Leverkusen), 1994, 1997 (Bayer Wuppertal)
• German Cup Winner: 1987 (Fortuna Bonn), 1988 (Bayer Leverkusen), 1995 (Bayer Wuppertal)
• in Paderborn 1981/1982 to 1984/1985 four times in a row German runner-up
• Captain of the South Korean national team
• Volleyball player of the year 1985

Success as a trainer

• German champion: 1997 (Bayer Wuppertal)
• German Cup Winner: 1987 (Fortuna Bonn)
• 4th place European Championship women 1999
• 3rd place European Championship women 2003
• 6th place Olympia (women) 2000

Web links

• Official DVV website about Lee Hee-wan (out of date)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article I'm not a good player , Deutsche Volleyball-Zeitschrift 5/1985, pp. 36–37; see. PDF
2. ↑ ^{a b} volleyball-verband.de: Mourning for Hee Wan Lee ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article of May 27, 2011 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Hee-wan is the first name.