Moritz Polk

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Moritz "Mopo" Erhard Polk (* 1990 in Hamburg ) is a German hockey player .

Polk was born as the son of the former youth national coach Erhard Polk in Hamburg, the family moved shortly afterwards to Limburg an der Lahn , where Polk played in his youth at Limburg HC . In order to play in the Bundesliga , Polk moved to Uhlenhorst Mülheim after the A-youth . After winning the runner-up with the club, he moved to Hamburg in 2011 to join the Harvestehuder THC .

For the FIH Champions Trophy 2012, Polk, who had previously played in all junior national teams, was appointed to the senior squad for the first time. In Melbourne , Australia , he prepared the next goal in the game for 5th place against Belgium and shortly afterwards scored his first international goal to make it 4-3. Polk, who wears the shirt number 11, has been part of the extended squad of the German national team since 2013 . So far, he has played 29 international matches and was European champion in the hall in early 2014 .

In the same year Polk won both the Euro Hockey League and the German championship a little later with the Harvestehuder THC .

Polk graduated from the Tilemannschule and studied economics .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player profile at HTC Uhlenhorst
  2. ↑ Björn Jensen: Moritz Polk celebrates its premiere at the Champions Trophy. Published in the Hamburger Abendblatt on November 27, 2012. Accessed on December 9, 2012.
  3. ↑ hockey.de: Moritz Polk (national player portrait)
  4. ↑ Sportschau: HTHC Hamburg and Rot-Weiß Köln win hockey titles
personal data
SURNAME Polk, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polk, Moritz Erhard (full name); Mopo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg