Stefan Schärer

Stefan Schärer

Player information
birthday	January 26, 1965
place of birth	Switzerland
citizenship	Swiss
height	180 cm
Playing position	Left winger
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
? -	TV Endingen
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1975-1985	TV Endingen
1985-1990	ZMC Amicitia Zurich
1990-1998	Pathfinder Winterthur
National team
Debut on	January 22, 1986
against	Netherlands
	Games (goals)
Switzerland U21 Switzerland	19 (37) 204 (533)
Status: February 12, 2018

Stefan Schärer (born January 26, 1965 ) is a former Swiss handball player and former president of Pfadi Winterthur .

Career

Stefan Schärer started his career at TV Endingen. His father Heinz Schärer was a village teacher in Endingen AG and introduced handball to the local gymnastics class there.

In 1986 Schärer moved to ZMC Amicitia Zurich and played there for four years. In January 1986 he made his debut for the national team . Schärer played for Amitica until 1989 and won three championship titles with the Zurich team and in 1987 reached the European Cup final with the Zurich team, which was lost to CSKA Moscow .

After four years in Zurich, Schärer moved to cantonal rivals Pfadi Winterthur. In the successful 1990s he won the Swiss championship six more times until he retired in 1998 and was also a cup winner in the last season of his career. He was also involved in reaching the EHF Champions League quarter-finals twice in 1997 and 1998. As one of his career highlights, he reached 4th place with the national team at the 1993 World Cup . His second career highlight, which he himself claims, is the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , where Schärer was allowed to lead the Swiss delegation as the flag bearer at the opening ceremony . In 1998 Schärer finally resigned, with his 204 games he is one of the six players who cracked the limit of 200 national team appearances (as of February 12, 2018). In the National League A he played 771 games during his career and scored 2,647 goals.

Even after the end of his active career, he stayed with Pfadi Winterthur and was president of the association from 2002 to 2006. In 2009, he was also briefly sporting director of GC Zurich . After retiring, he worked in the online business, including for Ringier Digital and as CEO of ImmoScout24 and Moneyhouse . Stefan Schärer has been working as an entrepreneur, investor and board member in the digital real estate industry (proptech) since 2017.

successes

• Swiss champions: 1987 , 1988 , 1989 , 1992 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998

• Swiss Cup Winner: 1998

Web links

• Stefan Schaerer in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Stefan Schärer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on February 12, 2018.
• Stefan Schärer on the website of the Swiss Handball Federation.
• Stefan Schärer in the Hall of Fame of Pfadi Winterthur.
• Stefan Schärer at handball-hall-of-fame.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Schärer. In: Swiss Handball Federation . Retrieved February 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Ilona Scherer: The handball village's secret of success. effingermedien, February 8, 2017, accessed on February 12, 2018 .  
3. ↑ A great honor for Stefan Schärer - flag bearer in Atlanta 1996. In: indoorsports.ch. August 4, 2016, accessed February 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ All-time ranking. In: Swiss Handball Federation . Retrieved February 12, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Stefan Schärer. Pfadi Winterthur , accessed on February 12, 2018 . 
6. ^ Peter Eggenberger: A flag in Atlanta and a night in Madrid . In: handballworld . No. 06/15 , 2015, p 40–43 ( online [PDF; 325 kB ]).
7. ↑ Stefan Schärer becomes the new CEO of Moneyhouse. NZZ-Mediengruppe , December 3, 2014, accessed on February 12, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Stefan Schärer leaves Moneyhouse. NZZ-Mediengruppe, August 31, 2016, accessed on February 12, 2018 .