Phil Szczesny

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Phil Szczesny
Player information
Full name Phil Szczesny
birthday 3rd December 1992
place of birth , Germany
size 182 cm
society
society Hanover 78
position End, corner
National team
Years National team Games (points)
??? - Germany (7er)
2017 Germany (Union) 1

Phil Szczesny (born December 3, 1992 ) is a German sevens national rugby player . In the club he plays at Hannover 78 and won the European championship title with the German team in 2019.

Career

society

In the club he plays at Hannover 78 . In the 2012/13 season his team made it to the quarter-finals of the knockout round. There they failed with 7:13 at the RG Heidelberg , Szczesny was able to score points in the first half. In the 2014/15 season, his team failed again in the quarter-finals, this time at SC Neuenheim . However, he was absent from this game. In the 2018/19 season he went back to the semifinals. After a 3:57 against the Berlin rugby club there it was over again.

National team

In the national team, he already took part in the Hong Kong Sevens 2016 , as well as in qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Games . There he failed with the team at the tournament in Monaco on the favorite Samoa. When all the players of the German rugby union team boycotted the world ranking game against the Chilean selection in November 2017 , he moved up along with some other players. The game was lost at 10:32, but Szczesny was able to score at least a few points. When Sevens Grand Prix Series in Polish Łódź , he could with his crew then in September 2018, the first time the European vice-champion title celebrations. He was then back in the squad for the qualifying tournament for the 2020 Olympic Games . There it went only to the quarter-finals where he and his team in Colomiers, France, were clearly defeated by Ireland with 0:21 . After a fourth place in the first tournament of the Grand Prix Series series, the victory of a tournament in the series was achieved for the first time in July 2019, with which the European championship title was finally achieved. In September 2019, the fourth place at the Oktoberfest Sevens was there.

Private

Professionally he is a sports soldier and lives in Verden . Pascal Fischer , who also plays rugby, is his cousin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hard rugby fight is not rewarded for Hanover. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 78 has to make another attempt. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hanover trio for Moscow: rugby men reach for European Championship medals and Olympic qualifications. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ Three rugby players from Pforzheim on their way to the SWS final in Hong Kong - Sport - Pforzheimer-Zeitung. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rugby | Olympic qualification: "We have a chance at the Olympics" | Sport | SWR Sport. June 19, 2016, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  6. ^ Metropolnews editorial staff: Heidelberg: German national rugby team just failed to qualify for the Olympics. In: Metropolnews.info. June 21, 2016, accessed December 20, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ National rugby team is boycotting. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  8. ^ After the national players strike: German rugby future looks bleak. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Metropolnews editorial team: Heidelberg: German 7-a-side rugby men runner-up European champions for the first time. In: Metropolnews.info. September 11, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Rugby dream of the Olympics burst: German team of seven fails because of Ireland. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Hans Joachim Moers: GERMANY IS EUROPEAN CHAMPION IN THE 7 SERIES RUGBY. In: SPORT - RHEIN - ERFT. July 21, 2019, accessed on December 21, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ Hans Joachim Moers: GERMAN 7 RUGBY SELECTION OF STRONG FOURTHS. In: SPORT - RHEIN - ERFT. September 22, 2019, accessed on December 21, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Florian Cordes: Tough. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  14. ↑ TotalRugby - Julius Nostadt before jumping into the top 14: Adler-Prop signs with Castres Olympique. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Szczesny, Phil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rugby player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany