Manfred Horstkötter

Manfred Horstkötter

Player information
birthday	April 9, 1940
place of birth	Bielefeld , Germany
citizenship	German
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1959	TSV Altenhagen 03
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1959-1962	TSV Altenhagen 03
1962-1972	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen
1972–	TSV Altenhagen 03
National team
Debut on	September 2, 1961 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein
against	Switzerland
	Games (goals)
BR Germany	14 (?)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1972–	TSV Altenhagen 03 (player-coach)
As of February 5, 2018

Manfred Horstkötter (born April 9, 1940 in Bielefeld ) is a former German handball player .

Career

Horstkötter began his career at TSV Altenhagen 03 , where he was once Westphalia champion and West German runner-up behind VfL Gummersbach in the youth division . In 1962 Horstkötter switched to Grün-Weiß Dankersen . With the Mindenern , Horstkötter was three times German champion and one European Cup winner in field handball . In 1971 he became German champion with Dankersen. A year later he returned to Altenhagen and became the West German champions as a player- coach with the team.

During his time in Dankersen Horstkötter rose to the German national team . In 1963 he took part in the field handball world championship in Switzerland , where the German team lost the final against the GDR . After his career, Manfred Horstkötter worked as a sports teacher at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Herford . Today the pensioner lives in Bielefeld- Altenhagen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Manthey: middle runner on the big field one size. TSG Altenhagen-Heepen , accessed on August 4, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Altenhagen's only national player. Neue Westfälische , accessed on August 4, 2015 .