Mattias Andersson

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Mattias Andersson

Mattias Andersson (2018)
Player information
Full name	Erik Mattias Andersson
birthday	March 29, 1978
place of birth	Malmo , Sweden
citizenship	Swedish
height	1.85 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1985-1995	Ystad's IF HF
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1995-1999	Ystad's IF HF
1999–4 / 2001	HK Drott
4 / 2001–6 / 2001	FC Barcelona
6 / 2001-2008	THW Kiel
2008-2011	TV Großwallstadt
2011-2018	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
National team
Debut on	June 26, 1996 December 20, 1996 January 4, 1998
against	Norway U-19 in Slemmestad Croatia U-21 in Kopřivnice Egypt in Västerås
	Games (goals)
Sweden U-19 Sweden U-21 Sweden	20 (2) 33 (1) 150 (0)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2018-2020	Austria (goalkeeping coach)
2018–	THW Kiel (goalkeeping coach)
2020–	Germany (goalkeeping coach)
As of May 9, 2020

Erik Mattias Andersson (born March 29, 1978 in Malmö ) is a former Swedish handball goalkeeper .

Career

Andersson started playing handball at Ystads IF HF . In his youth he was coached by his father Thomas , who played for the IFK Malmö handball team in the 1970s . Mattias first appeared in the Elitserien at the age of 17 . In 1999 he joined HK Drott . In April 2001 he moved to FC Barcelona to represent the injured goalkeeper David Barrufet . In the summer of 2001 he signed a contract with the German Bundesliga club THW Kiel . There he was second goalkeeper behind Henning Fritz and later Thierry Omeyer . He did not extend his contract with THW, which expired in 2008, and switched to TV Großwallstadt . For the 2011/12 season, Andersson moved to SG Flensburg-Handewitt and received a contract there until 2013, which was extended to 2017. In 2014 he won the Champions League with Flensburg-Handewitt . After Andersson won the German championship in 2018, he ended his career.

He played 150 times for the Swedish national team. He won the title at the European Championships in Croatia in 2000 . He was also in the squad for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , but was not used there. He also played at the 2010 European Championship . Andersson won the silver medal with Sweden at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . He also took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

From the summer of 2018, Andersson worked as a goalkeeping coach for the Austrian national team and at THW Kiel. Since February 1, 2020, he has been the head goalkeeping coach at the German Handball Federation.

successes

• EHF Champions League winner 2007 , 2014
• EHF Cup winner 2002 and 2004
• European Cup Winners' Cup 2012
• EHF Champions Trophy winner 2007
• German champion 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2018
• DHB Cup winner 2007, 2008 and 2015
• Supercup winners 2005, 2007 and 2013
• Silver medal at the 2012 Summer Games in London
• 2000 European Champion in Croatia
• 2nd place at the Scandinavian Open 2006
• Silver Junior World Championships 1999 in Qatar
• Silver European Youth Championship 1997 in Estonia
• Best goalkeeper in the 1997 World Youth Championship and 1999 World Youth Championship
• Best goalkeeper and most valuable player in the Swedish League 2000/01

Web links

Commons : Mattias Andersson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the athlete. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 31, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
• Mattias Andersson on the website of SG Flensburg-Handewitt
• Mattias Andersson on the THW Kiel website
• Mattias Andersson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Match statistics Mattias Andersson. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved May 8, 2020 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed May 8, 2020 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ www.ystadsallehanda.se: Tungt ansvar på "Matti" , accessed on November 11, 2013
4. ↑ www.aftonbladet.se: Mattias Anderssonlöser målvaktskrisen i Barcelona , accessed on November 11, 2013
5. ↑ folket.se: Mattias Andersson till Barcelona ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 11, 2013
6. ↑ www.handball-world.news: Flensburg is trembling about the championship , accessed on June 3, 2018
7. ↑ www.shz.de: SG keeper Mattias Andersson will be Austria's goalkeeping coach , accessed on June 3, 2018
8. ↑ cms.eurohandball.com, EHF-EURO 2010 team statistics for Sweden, accessed on January 30, 2010 (PDF; 97 kB)
9. ↑ www.london2012.com: Sweden - Team Rosters , accessed August 1, 2012
10. ↑ handball-world.news: Mattias Andersson will be working for Austria from summer , accessed on December 12, 2017
11. ↑ handball-world.news: Mattias Andersson supports goalkeeper training at THW Kiel , accessed on July 16, 2017
12. ↑ handball-world.news: Mattias Andersson becomes the leading DHB goalkeeping coach , accessed on September 30, 2019