Sascha Brendler

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Sascha Brendler (born March 31, 1974 in Schwyz ) is a former Swiss floorball coach .

Career

Brendler began his coaching career in 1995 on the small field as coach of the second team of the UHC Black Rebels Rothenthurm in the 4th division. In November 1997, after a coach failure, he took over the first team in the 3rd division, the team already in the quarter-finals of the Swiss League Cup at that time finally won the title. After the merger of Rothenthurm and other clubs to form the Vipers Innerschwyz , he took over the newly founded large field team in the 2nd division from 2000 to 2002 and led it into the 1st division in their first season. After the break with the men's 1st team, Brendler coached the club's women who played in the 2nd division.

Afterwards Brendler moved to Winterthur in the National League A as coach of HC Rychenberg Winterthur , for which he resigned his position as sales manager. Shortly after the coaching position at HCR, he also took on an assistant position in the Czech national team , with whom he won silver at the 2004 floorball world championship , the first of two medals at world championships in the history of Czech floorball. After the success with the Czech Republic, he became coach of the Swiss floorball team together with Peter Düggeli after the World Cup . In 2005 Brendler finished his job as coach of the HCR in order to work as head of sport in Winterthur for the 2006/2007 season a year later. In this function he briefly took over the office of trainer on an interim basis. In 2007, his collaboration with the Swiss national team, with whom he took third place at the 2006 World Cup , also ended.

After a job-related break in 2008/2009, the man from Schwyz returned to the Vipers Innerschwyz and again took over the men's first division team, with whom he stayed until 2012 - most recently as assistant coach.

In February 2012, the commitment of Brendler, who had previously been active almost exclusively in men's uni hockey, became known to the Swiss women's national hockey team. In this role he won bronze at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships together with the national team . He then ended his career as a floorball coach. His successor in the women's national team was Rolf Kern in February 2016 .

In January 2016 it was announced that Brendler - also at the request of the trainer Simone Berner - will officially take over the office of sports director of the UHC Dietlikon on May 1st, 2016 . As a goal of his activity in Dietikon, he announced that he wanted to reach the top of the league with the club, "second place is not enough". A goal that the Zürcher Unterländer more than achieved in 2017 and 2019 by winning the double twice. Between November 2019 and March 2020 he made another comeback as an interim trainer as interim trainer for the Kloten-Bülach Jets, but then returned to the position of sports director.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sascha Brendler only until the World Cup national coach. Swiss Unihockey , October 21, 2015, accessed January 20, 2017 .
  2. Marisa Kuny: Brendler is the new head of sports in Dietlikon . In: Zürcher Unterländer . January 26, 2016, p. 12 ( zuonline.ch [accessed on August 31, 2020]).
  3. Urs Kindhauser: Red Ants opponent changes coach . In: The Landbote . March 6, 2020, p. 31 ( landbote.ch [accessed on August 31, 2020]).