Thomas Kroeger

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German architect see Thomas Kröger (architect) .

Thomas Kroeger
portrait
birthday	June 11, 1979
place of birth	Melle , Germany
size	1.88 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Libero
societies
2005–2006 2006–2007 2007–2009 2009–2010	TuRa Grönenberg Melle VfL Lintorf GSV Osnabrück SSC Dodesheide SV Bayer Wuppertal VC Bottrop 90 Amber Antwerpen Pepe Jeans Lennik evivo Düren Aon hotVolleys Vienna VfB Friedrichshafen RWE Volleys Bottrop
National team
35 times	A national team
successes
2007 - Austrian Champion 2008, 2009 - German Champion 2008 - German Cup Winner 2008 - Olympic Games Beijing
beach volleyball
partner	2003–2004 Kay Matysik 2003 Axel Hager 2005 Niklas Rademacher 2005 Gil Ferrer Cutiño 2006 Stefan Hübner 2014 various 2015 Sebastian Dollinger
society	KMTV Eagles Kiel
successes
2003 - DM ninth 2004 - DM ninth 2005 - World Cup participant 2005 - DM ninth
As of May 11, 2015

Thomas Kröger (born June 11, 1979 in Melle , Germany ) is a German volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career hall

Thomas Kröger began his career at his hometown club in Melle, Lower Saxony. He came to the Bundesliga club SV Bayer Wuppertal via Lintorf and Osnabrück . After a stint at VC Bottrop 90 , he went to Belgium , where he reached the cup final in 2004. In 2005 he came back to Germany and played with evivo Düren in the Champions League . In June 2006 he made his debut in the senior national team in Düren . He then moved to the Austrian Champions League participant Aon hotVolleys Vienna . At the World Cup in Japan , he led the German team to ninth place as a Libero. After winning the Austrian championship in 2007, he moved to VfB Friedrichshafen , with whom he made the national double in the 2007/08 season. With the national team, he reached ninth place at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008. In 2009 he was again German champion with VfB Friedrichshafen. After the 2009/10 season he ended his active career with the RWE Volleys Bottrop .

Career Beach

In 2003 and 2004 Kröger played alongside Kay Matysik at national tournaments and was ninth at the German championships in Timmendorf . In 2003 he also had two international appearances with Axel Hager . In 2005 he took part in the World Championships in Berlin with Niklas Rademacher and again finished ninth in the German championships with Gil Ferrer Cutiño . In 2006, Kröger briefly formed a duo with Stefan Hübner . After an eight-year break, Kröger started again on the beach in 2014 with various partners and finished second with Eric Koreng at his last tournament in Rorschach (Switzerland). In 2015 Kröger played with Sebastian Dollinger on the German Smart Beach Tour .

Career coach

From 2010 to 2013 Thomas Kröger was the coach of the second division and third division men's teams of the KMTV Eagles Kiel (until 2012 VT Kiel ) as well as the state coach of the boys in the Schleswig-Holstein volleyball association. Since 2013 he has been a coach at the Danish club Middelfart VK.

Web links

• Thomas Kröger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait at DVV
• Ranking list 2009 (pdf; 759 kB)
• Beach volleyball stations
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• FIVB Beach Profile (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Verdensklasse til Middelfart! (No longer available online.) Middelfart UK, May 31, 2013, formerly the original ; Retrieved September 19, 2013 (Danish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.