Mats Olsson (handball player)

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Mats Olsson
Player information
birthday January 12, 1960
place of birth Malmo , Sweden
citizenship SwedeSwede Swedish
height 1.96 m
Playing position goalkeeper
Club information
society SwedenSweden Sweden (goalkeeping coach)
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1980 SwedenSweden Dalhems IF
1980-1988 SwedenSweden LUGI HF
1988-1994 SpainSpain DG Teka Santander
1994-1996 SwedenSweden Ystads IF
1996-1997 SpainSpain Caja Cantabria Santander
National team
Debut on January 6, 1978
June 24, 1979
against Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Federal Republic of Germany U-21 in Wahlstedt Yugoslavia in Pula
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia 
  Games (goals)
SwedenSweden Sweden U-21 Sweden
SwedenSweden  		41 (1)
292 (2)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2001-2005 PortugalPortugal Portugal (assistant coach)
2005–2012 PortugalPortugal Portugal
0000-0000 NorwayNorway Norway (women, goalkeeping coach)
2020– SwedenSweden Sweden (goalkeeping coach)

As of May 5, 2020

Mats Olsson (born January 12, 1960 in Malmö ) is a former Swedish handball player and today's handball coach.

Olsson began his career at the Malmö club Dalhems IF . In 1980 he moved to the top Swedish club LUGI HF from Lund, which had just won the national championship for the first time. As a result, the club started in the European Cup , where the semi-finals could surprisingly be reached. There they were eliminated with two defeats against the eventual title winner SC Magdeburg . Without a title win, Olsson left his Swedish homeland in 1988 to move to the emerging top club CB Cantabria Santander . With Santander he won the Spanish championship twice and the Champions League in 1994 . After his time in Spain, Olsson moved back to Sweden - to Ystads IF - but made a short comeback for Santander afterwards.

For the national team Olsson completed a total of 292 internationals from 1979 to 1997. He took part in a total of six world championships , one of which he won with his team ( 1990 ). In four Olympic participations, he achieved two silver medals. He was also part of the winning team at the first handball European championship in 1994.

After his active career, Olsson took over as coach of the Portuguese national team .

successes

  • World Champion 1990
  • European Champion 1994
  • Champions League winner in 1994
  • European Cup Winners' Cup 1990
  • IHF Cup 1993
  • Spanish champion 1993, 1994
  • Spanish cup winner 1989
  • Silver at the 1992 Olympics, 1996
  • World Cup silver 1997
  • World Cup bronze 1993, 1995
  • World Cup bronze in the juniors 1979

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Match statistics Mats Olsson. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved May 5, 2020 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed May 5, 2020 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ World Champion Germany handles Portugal
personal data
SURNAME Olsson, Mats
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish handball player and today's handball trainer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmo