Zoltan Cordas

Zoltan Cordas

Player information
birthday	October 29, 1962
place of birth	Padej , Yugoslavia
citizenship	Austrian and Serbian
height	1.92 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Jersey number	11
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1977-1982	Spartak Debeljaca
1982-1984	Dinamo Pančevo
1984-1987	Kristal Zajecar
1987-1989	RK Jugović
1989-1990	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
1990-1993	Kresto Krems
1993-1996	Linde Linz
1996-1997	HSG Wetzlar
National team
debut
against	Belgium in St. Veit
	Games (goals)
Austria	37 (198)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1998-2002	HC Linz AG
2002-2004	TV Suhr
2004-10/2007	HC Linz AG
2008-2015	TV Endingen
2015-2018	TV Möhlin
2018-2019	HC Linz AG

Zoltan Cordas (born October 29, 1962 in Padej , Yugoslavia) is a former Yugoslav and now Serbian-Austrian handball player and handball trainer .

player

Zoltan Cordas started handball at the age of 15. His teacher at the time, Momir Milicev, was able to entice the left-hander away from football and get him excited about the sport of handball. He started his career at Spartak Debeljaca . At the age of 19 he was called up to the Yugoslav national junior team. He made his first experience in the 1st Yugoslav Bundesliga from 1982 to 1984 with a double right for Dinamo Pančevo . In 1984 he moved to Kristal Zajecar , where he was under contract until 1987. The last club in the 1st league of Yugoslavia was RK Jugović from Kać , where he played from 1987 to 1989. In his first stint abroad he played for the Swiss club TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen . After a year he moved to the Austrian Bundesliga club Kresto Krems . for which he played until 1993. In the same year he switched to Linde Linz , where he was active until 1996 and celebrated his greatest successes as a player. After the club collapsed, Zoltan Cordas moved to Germany for a year at HSG D / M Wetzlar .

Cordas played for both the Yugoslav and Austrian national teams during his career .

Trainer

Cordas started his coaching career in 1998 with the Austrian club HC Linz AG . In 2002 he moved to Switzerland for TV Suhr . He coached the team from Suhr from 2002 to 2004. Later he again took over the coaching position at HC Linz AG. Cordas gave up this post after a cup defeat against a second division club in autumn 2007. From the 2008/09 season he coached the Swiss club TV Endingen . In 2015, after 8 years, he switched to league competitor TV Möhlin . From the summer of 2018 Cordas was back at HC Linz AG as a trainer. He resigned from this office in February 2019.

Zoltan Cordas has been an EHF Master Coach since 2012. The EHF Master Coach training is the highest training that a handball coach can attain. The thesis deals with the LT defense formation that Zoltan Cordas developed himself.

Success as a player

• Kresto Krems
  • Allstar Team ÖHB rear area right 1991/92, 1992/93

• Linde Linz
  • Master 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96
  • Cup winners 1993/94, 1994.95, 1995.96
  • Supercup winner 1993/94, 1994.95, 1995/96
  • EHF CUP final 1994
  • Allstar Team ÖHB rear area right 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96

• HSG Wetzlar
  • CUP final Germany 1997

Success as a trainer

• 3rd place HC LINZ AG 1998/99
• 2nd place HC LINZ AG 2001/02
• 3rd place TV Suhr 2003/04
• Champion 2. Bundesliga and promotion with TV Endingen
• Cup final with HC LINZ AG 2007
• Cup Final 4 2013 with TV Endingen

Honors

• Coach of the year Austria 2002
• Trainer of the year Upper Austria 2005
• Admission to the Austrian national honorary team in 2005
• 3 times Silver Laurel Upper Austria

Web links

• Zoltan Cordas in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} news.ch: TV Suhr with new coach Zoltan Cordas , accessed on September 1, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} handball-world.news: Zoltan Cordas is the coach of the Swiss first division club TV Endingen , accessed on September 1, 2018
3. ↑ tv-moehlin.ch: Zoltan Cordas will be the new TV Möhlin trainer , accessed on September 1, 2018
4. ↑ aargauerzeitung.ch: Zoltan Cordas is returning to his homeland in Linz , accessed on September 1, 2018
5. ↑ handball-world.news: Zoltan Cordas no longer coach of HC Linz AG , accessed on February 21, 2019
6. ^ European Handball Federation - / List of Referees, Delegates, Lecturers and Mastercoaches. Retrieved September 20, 2018 . 
7. ^ Upper Austrian news: Paul Tiedemann: The handball world mourns . ( nachrichten.at [accessed September 4, 2018]).
8. ↑ Master board / cup winner since 1961 . In: spusu LIGA | spusu CHALLENGE . ( spusuliga.at [accessed on September 4, 2018]).
9. ^ Austrian Handball Federation: History. Retrieved September 4, 2018 . 
10. ^ European Handball Federation - 1993/94 Men's EHF Cup / finals. Accessed September 4, 2018 . 
11. ↑ HSG Wetzlar Handball Bundesliga Spielbetriebs GmbH & Co.KG: History - HSG Wetzlar: DKB Handball Bundesliga. Accessed September 4, 2018 (German).