Luca Witzke

Luca Witzke

Player information
birthday	3rd April 1999 (age 21)
place of birth	Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.91 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	SC DHfK Leipzig
Jersey number	7th
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
2011-2014	TV Aldekerk
2014-2016	ART Düsseldorf
2016-2018	TUSEM food
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2018-2019	TUSEM food
2019–	SC DHfK Leipzig
National team
	Games (goals)
Germany
As of December 7, 2019

Luca Witzke (born April 3, 1999 ) is a German handball player who plays in the central back position at SC DHfK Leipzig .

Career

society

Witzke came to TUSEM Essen in the A-youth . From the 2017/18 season he played in the club's second division team. In the 2018/19 season he scored 98 goals for Essen.

In the summer of 2019 he moved to SC DHfK Leipzig in the Bundesliga .

National team

Witzke has played 18 junior internationals so far. With the U20 national team, he won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Celje (Slovenia) in summer 2018 . He missed the 2019 U21 European Championship due to a patellar tendon injury.

In October 2019, Witzke was nominated for a week of training courses and international matches for the senior national team . There he broke his nose, so that he has not yet made his first international appearance. He was the youngest player in the 28-man squad for the European Championship in January 2020.

Web links

• Profile at SC DHfK Leipzig
• Profile and statistics at HBL

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DHfK newcomer Luca Witzke: “With a very good feeling” in Leipzig. In: handball-world.news , June 20, 2019.
2. ↑ The balance sheet of the U20 European Championship: “Huge pride” and a bronze party. In: handball-world.news , July 30, 2018.
3. ↑ SC DHfK Leipzig's Luca Witzke: Resistant to stress and full of dynamism. In: sportbuzzer.de , September 2, 2019.
4. ↑ Luca Witzke after a broken nose: “I'm fine now”. In: handball-world.news , November 1, 2019.