Vlado Stenzel

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Vlado Stenzel
Vlado Stenzel

Stenzel as the German national coach

Player information
Nickname "The magician"
birthday July 23, 1934
place of birth Zagreb , Yugoslavia
citizenship
Playing position goalkeeper
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1951-1959 SD Prvomajska Zagreb
(later RK Medveščak)

Vlado Stenzel (born July 23, 1934 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ), nicknamed "The Magician", is a handball coach from Yugoslavia .

Life

Stenzel was initially a goalkeeper at SD Prvomajska Zagreb (from 1964: SD Medveščak Zagreb) and was the national goalkeeper of the Yugoslav national team in indoor handball at the age of 18 . His coaching career began at the age of 20. As a young coach he had success in Yugoslav club handball: between two championship titles with Medveščak in 1964 and 1966 he reached the final of the European Cup against Dinamo Bucharest with this club in 1965 . In 1967 Stenzel took over the RK Crvenka in a double function , which he led to second place in the Yugoslav Bundesliga in 1968 and to the championship in 1969, and was coach of the Yugoslav national handball team for men, with which he won the gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . With the German national handball team he won the 1978 handball world championship .

After the Olympic victory with Yugoslavia, Stenzel first negotiated with the DHB about the post of national coach. After these negotiations initially failed, he became the coach of Bundesliga club SC Phönix Essen in autumn 1972 , with whom he was unable to meet the high expectations and only ended up in the middle of the table in the northern season of the handball Bundesliga in two seasons . On July 1, 1974, Stenzel finally became national coach of the DHB men and stayed there for eight years until the 1982 World Cup , after which he was dismissed because of the poor performance - the DHB team was only seventh as defending champions. His successor was Simon Schobel .

Stenzel was a big proponent of a single-track Bundesliga, which was introduced in 1977 during his time as national coach. The Supercup for national teams goes back to his idea. He reached 4th place at the Olympic Games in 1976 with the DHB selection . The team did not take part in the 1980 Olympic Games because of the Olympic boycott .

Despite winning the title at the 1978 World Cup, the overall record of his games as national coach is below average compared to the records of the other ten previous national coaches. Stenzel looked after the DHB national team from July 1, 1974 to March 7, 1982 in 176 international A matches, of which 97 were won, 20 games ended in a draw and 59 were lost. With 33.5% lost games, his record shows the third highest loss rate after that of the former national coach Martin Heuberger (34.0%) and that of the first national coach Fritz Fromm (41.2%). The average points of his coaching time is 1.22 after that of his direct successor Simon Schobel (1.19) and that of Fritz Fromm (1.0), the third worst average of all previous national coaches. The longest series of games of the DHB selection so far without a win falls during Stenzel's tenure, when the DHB team failed to win seven times in a row from January 10, 1980 to October 18, 1980 (three draws and four defeats). However, the DHB selection under Stenzel previously also recorded their longest series of undefeated games when they remained unbeaten in 29 games from March 16, 1977 to November 16, 1978, of which 25 were won.

After his time as national coach, Stenzel coached several Bundesliga teams, but was also involved in lower-class German clubs. His greatest successes as a club coach were his promotion to the 1st Bundesliga with VfL Bad Schwartau in 1988 and winning the DHB Cup with TSV Milbertshofen in 1990.

Stenzel calls the qualification game for the 1976 Olympic Games in Karl-Marx-Stadt against the selection of the GDR his "favorite victory" before the Olympic victory with Yugoslavia in 1972 and the 1978 World Cup. Although the game in Karl-Marx-Stadt was lost 8:11, the DHB team had qualified for the Olympic Games after the 17:14 success in the first leg, as the direct three-goal defeat Comparison of the two German teams ended in a draw (away goals were of no particular importance) and thus the better goal difference from the other group matches against the third group participant Belgium was the decisive factor for the DHB team. The decision in the second leg was particularly dramatic due to a seven-meter imposed a few seconds before the end for the GDR, which was blocked by DHB keeper Manfred Hofmann .

Stenzel lives with his wife Dijana in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse .

Stations

Success as national coach

  • 1972 Olympic champion with Yugoslavia
  • 1978 world champion with BR Germany
  • 1970 Third place at the World Cup with Yugoslavia

Success as a club coach

  • 1965 final in the European Cup with RK Agram Medveščak Zagreb against Dinamo Bucharest (11:13)
  • 1964 and 1966 Yugoslav champion with RK Agram Medveščak Zagreb
  • 1969 Yugoslav champion with RK Crvenka
  • 1990 DHB Cup winner with TSV Milbertshofen

Documentary film

  • Participation in: Fallwurf Böhme - The miraculous ways of a left-hander by Heinz Brinkmann , narrator: Wolfgang Winkler , 90 minutes, DVD, Basis-Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin, distribution: KNM Home Entertainment GmbH 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eggers, Erik (ed.), Handball - Eine deutschedomain, Göttingen 2004, p. 185.
  2. ↑ German Handball Federation (ed.), German Handball Week No. 36/1973, p. 1225.
  3. ↑ German Handball Federation (ed.), German Handball Week No. 36/1973, p. 1229.
  4. ↑ Deutscher Handballbund (ed.), Handball Aktuell No. 46/1989, p. 4: "Vlado's idea - direct hit for handball".
  5. ↑ National coach men. In: www.bundesligainfo.de. Sven Webers (Red.), February 12, 2014, accessed on February 18, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Database DHB international matches. In: www.bundesligainfo.de. Sven Webers (Red.), February 12, 2014, accessed on February 18, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, March 8, 1976, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Stenzel, Vlado
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vlado Štencl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb