Magnus Wislander

Magnus Wislander

Magnus Wislander, 2013 (Photo: Frankie Fouganthin)
Player information
Full name	Hans Einar Magnus Wislander
Nickname	"Slangen", in German : "snake"; "Max"
birthday	22nd February 1964 (age 56)
place of birth	Gothenburg , Sweden
citizenship	Swedish
height	1.94 m
Playing position	Back center
	Circular rotor
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1973-1979	Tuve IF
1979-1981	Redbergslids IK
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1981-1990	Redbergslids IK
1990-2002	THW Kiel
2002-2005	Redbergslids IK
11/2011–11/2011	Redbergslids IK
National team
Debut on	December 28, 1982 January 16, 1985
against	BR Germany U-21 in Lindesberg Soviet Union in Breslau
	Games (goals)
Sweden U-21 Sweden	31 (126) 386 (1191)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2002-2005	Redbergslids IK (co-player-coach)
2005–11 / 2012	Redbergslids IK
0000-2020	Redbergslids IK (assistant coach)
Medal table
World Championship 2 × 2 × 2 × European Championship 4 × 0 × 0 × Olympic games 0 × 3 × 0 × U-21 world championship 0 × 1 × 0 ×
As of May 28, 2020

Hans Einar Magnus Wislander (born February 22, 1964 in Gothenburg , Sweden ) is a former Swedish handball player . Wislander was voted World Handballer of the Century by the IHF .

Career

In the club

After Wislander had played for the Gothenburg club Tuve IF since 1973 , he moved to Redbergslids IK Göteborg in 1979 . In 1990 he moved to the top German club THW Kiel , where he played until 2002 and was German champion seven times . In 2002 Wislander moved again to Redbergslids IK as a player- coach. In 2005 he ended his career and worked as the club's coach until his dismissal on November 20, 2012. He then stayed with the club as an assistant coach until the end of the 2019/20 season.

Under the roof of the Ostseehalle , the venue of the THW Kiel, hangs his jersey with the number 2, which will never be awarded in his honor. Wislander scored 1,371 goals in 369 Bundesliga games for Kiel ( rate : 3.72 goals / game).

Wislander mostly played in the playmaker position in the middle of the backcourt . In the last few years of his career he was used as a cyclist .

In the national team

On January 16, 1985 Wislander made his national team debut in the Baltic Cup against the Soviet Union . Up to his last international match against Germany on October 19, 2004 in Kiel , he played 384 international matches in which he scored 1,185 goals ( rate : 3.09 goals / game). With the national team, Wislander won two world championship titles, four European championship titles and was three times vice Olympic champion .

Private

Wislander is married and has three children. His daughter Therese played handball in the Elitserien , the highest Swedish league. In October 2019, he suffered a minor stroke.

Title and personal achievements

title

society

• German champion : 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2002
• German cup winner : 1998, 1999, 2000
• EHF Cup Winner : 1998, 2002
• EHF Champions League finalist : 2000
• Swedish champion : 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2003

National team

• World Champion : 1990 , 1999
• Vice world champion: 1997 , 2001
• World Championship third: 1993 , 1995
• European champions : 1994 , 1998 , 2000 , 2002
• Olympic runner-up: 1992 , 1996 , 2000

Personal achievements

• World handball player of the century
• World handball player : 1990
• Best player in the 2002 European Championship
• Swedish player of the century
• Record Swedish national team player and goalscorer
• Best Bundesliga player: 2000
• Best foreigner in the Bundesliga: 1994, 1995, 1996
• THW player of the century
• Kiel Sportsman of the Year: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
• Medal of Merit of the City of Kiel
• Schleswig-Holstein Medal : 2002

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
1990/91	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	33	122	11	111
1991/92	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	30th	102	4th	98
1992/93	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	27	79	0	79
1993/94	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	34	117	0	117
1994/95	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	30th	124	0	124
1995/96	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	24	95	1	94
1996/97	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	29	103	0	103
1997/98	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	28	117	0	117
1998/99	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	30th	122	0	122
1999/2000	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	34	150	0	150
2000/01	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	37	130	0	130
2001/02	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	33	110	0	110
1990-2002	total	Bundesliga	369	1371	16	1355

literature

• Magnus Wislander in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Magnus Wislander  - Collection of Images

• Magnus Wislander on the THW Kiel website

Remarks

1. ↑ Only in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match statistics Magnus Wislander. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved May 4, 2020 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed May 4, 2020 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ http://archiv.thw-handball.de/thw/sp_wisla.htm
4. ↑ Wislander dismissed as trainer , accessed January 22, 2013
5. ↑ handbollskanalen.se: Magnus Wislander lämnar Redbergslid , accessed on May 28, 2020
6. ↑ Bengans barnbarn
7. ↑ Magnus Wislander suffers from a stroke. Kiel legend on the mend. In: kicker.de. Olympia-Verlag GmbH, October 24, 2019, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
8. ↑ http://archiv.thw-handball.de/thw/02112707.htm