Simon Schobel

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Simon Schobel
Player information
birthday February 22, 1950
place of birth Petreşti , Romania
citizenship RomanianRomanian/ Romanian / German GermanGerman
height 1.96 m
Playing position Back left
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1967-1972 Romania 1965Romania Universitatea Cluj
1972-1982 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany TuS Hofweier
National team
Debut on 1968
May 21st 1976
against ? Czechoslovakia in Munster
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 
  Games (goals)
Romania 1965Romania Romania BR Germany
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany  		22 (8)
? (?)

As of April 11, 2014

Simon Schobel (born February 22, 1950 in Petreşti , Romania ) is a former Romanian- German handball player and coach from the German-speaking minority of the Transylvanian Saxons . He was national coach of the German national handball team of men .

Career as a player

Simon Schobel's playing career began at Universitatea Cluj when he was 17 . A year later he played in the Romanian national junior team. At the age of 18 he played his first international match in the Romanian national team . At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , he and his team won the bronze medal. He scored two goals in six games. In total, he played 22 international matches, in which he scored eight goals. In 1973 he stayed in Germany after his club played in Germany. He got a contract with the then regional league team TuS Hofweier and continued his sports studies in Mainz . With the team he rose to the Bundesliga .

Career as a coach

In 1979 TuS Hofweier became German runners-up with Simon Schobel as player- coach. Completely surprisingly, on April 21, 1982, he was appointed to succeed Vlado Stenzel at the age of 32 as the youngest national coach in the history of the German Handball Federation. During his time as national coach, the German national handball team won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In the same year Schobel was voted "Trainer of the Year". His assistant coach at the time was Heiner Brand . After the German team failed to qualify for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and had already been relegated to the B-class at World Championships in 1986, the contract with Schobel was not extended.

Under Schobel, the German national handball team played 129 international matches, 68 of which were won and 43 were lost. 18 games ended in a draw. He was succeeded by Petre Ivănescu .

Tax offense

On 16 June 2004 Simon Schobel was in Offenburg in custody taken. He was accused of tax offenses in the import of garden furniture and iron goods from Romania in the millions, his house in Neuried was foreclosed. He was released from custody in February 2005, and the public prosecutor applied for a suspended sentence.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.frh.ro International match statistics of the Romanian handball association (PDF, 2.8 MB) accessed on April 11, 2014
  2. ↑ It has to be a German . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1982 ( online ).
  3. ^ Lexicon of handball players , Komet Verlag, p. 200, ISBN 3-89836-605-7
  4. ↑ thw-provinzial.de, Heiner Brand "Trainer of the Year 2006" , March 7, 2007
  5. ↑ Erik Eggers: Handball national trainer Brand: Monarch with grip. In: Spiegel Online . April 24, 2007, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  6. ↑ www.bundesligainfo.de, DHB-BUNDESTRAINER , accessed on December 20, 2007
  7. ↑ Simon Schobel is still in custody. In: bo.de. September 28, 2004, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ netzeitung.de Ex-handball national coach Schobel leaves prison ( memento from September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Schobel, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German handball player and German handball trainer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Petreşti , Romania