Patrick Cazal

Patrick Cazal

Player information
Nickname	"Papat"
birthday	April 6, 1971
place of birth	Saint-Joseph , Reunion
citizenship	French
height	1.85 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Paris-Asnières
0000-1999	Montpellier HB
1999-2002	Bidasoa Irun
2002-2005	TUSEM food
2005-2008	Dunkerque HBGL
National team
Debut on	November 2, 1994
against	Switzerland
	Games (goals)
France	171 (482)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2008-2011	Dunkerque HBGL (assistant trainer)
2011–	Dunkerque HBGL
Status: national team January 1, 2007

Patrick Cazal (born April 6, 1971 in Saint-Joseph , Réunion ) is a French handball coach and former handball player . He is 1.85 m tall and weighs 90 kg.

After moving to mainland France , Cazal got his first professional contract with Paris-Asnières . The backcourt player soon moved to serial champions Montpellier HB , where he became French champions in 1995, 1998 and 1999 and won the French Cup in 1999. In the same year he moved to the Spanish league ASOBAL to Bidasoa Irún . With the Basques he was unsuccessful, so that in 2002 he moved to the German 1st handball league for TUSEM Essen . Here he won the EHF Cup in 2005 , but returned to France after the relegation of his club, where he let his career end with Dunkerque HBGL . After Cazal retired in 2008, he became an assistant coach at Dunkerque HBGL. In 2011 he took over the coaching position of Dunkerque HBGL, with whom he won the league cup in 2013 and the championship in 2014.

Patrick Cazal has played 171 international matches for the French men's national handball team . In 1995 and 2001 he was world champion with France ; In 1997 and 2003 he won bronze at the World Championships .

Web links

• Portrait of Cazal on the homepage of Dunkerque HBGL
• Patrick Cazal in the EHF database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.handzone.net: Patrick Cazal rempile pour quatre ans , accessed on September 29, 2013