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unusual facts about Handball-Bundesliga


EnBW

EnBW is also name- and main sponsor of Volleyball-Bundesliga-club EnBW TV Rottenburg and Beko Basketball-Bundesliga-club EnBW Ludwigsburg and main sponsor of Toyota Handball Bundesliga-club Frisch Auf Göppingen.


1991 DFB-Supercup

Uniquely, because Germany had just been reunified, the competition featured four teams instead of the usual two: The previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal winners, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and SV Werder Bremen, respectively, were joined by their counterparts from the East.

2007 UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships

The whole event was located in the stadium Eulachhalle, originally the home stadium of the handball club Pfadi Winterthur.

2009–10 Basketball Bundesliga

Mitteldeutscher BC and Phoenix Hagen of the Pro A division have qualified by sportive means to play in Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10.

2010 Pan American Men's Handball Championship

The 2010 American Handball Championship, also called PanAmericano 2010, was the 14th official competition for senior men's national handball teams of North, Center, Caribbean and South America.

2013 African Women's Handball Cup Winners' Cup

The 2013 African Women's Handball Cup Winners' Cup (29th edition), was an international handball tournament held in Hammamet, Tunisia from April 18 to 27 2013.

Adama Diakité

He was than a half year free agent, before signed for German 2. Fußball-Bundesliga club SV Sandhausen, until the end of the season 2013/2014 (30 May 2014).

Arab League

other Competitions include the Arab Basketball Federation with annual competitions, Sport Federations also exist for 43 games, include the Volley, Handball, Table Tennis, Tennis, Squash and Swimming.

Arason

Kristján Arason, former member of Icelandic national handball team

Association Sportive d'Hammamet H.C.

Association Sportive d'Hammamet H.C (Arabic: الجمعية الرياضية بالحمامات ) is a Tunisian handball team based in Hammamet, that plays in Tunisian Professional Handball League.

Ben Fajzullin

Fajzullin still voices reports and produces for the German Football League’s worldwide TV show, GOAL!

Christina Bauer

She was born in Bergen, Norway during a Christmas holiday to a French father, Jean-Luc Bauer, a professional volleyball player, and a Norwegian mother, Tone Bauer, a handball player who played several years in France.

Copper Box

Previously known as the Handball Arena, it was renamed because, aside from handball, it hosted modern pentathlon (fencing) during the Olympics and was the goalball venue for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Do-hun

Park Do-Hun (born 1964), South Korean former handball player

Glossary of Australian rules football

It was pioneered by Kevin Sheedy and is now the most common handball technique in modern football.

Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall

It is in usage of sport teams such as Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Men's Volleyball and Men's Handball Teams and Tekelspor basketball team.

Hans-Jürgen Weber

The first and the last Bundesliga-match Weber has refereed ended 6 - 1 for the hometeam: Werder Bremen v 1. FC Kaiserslautern on 17 May 1985 und Hertha BSC Berlin v Hamburger SV on 29 May 1999.

HC Bosna Visoko

In the first round of EHF Cup Bosna played against handball club Sutjeska from Nikšić, and passed after playing draw match in Nikšić, and scored win in Visoko.

Herbert Runge

It stands just outside the away section of Wuppertal's Stadion am Zoo football stadium, home to former Bundesliga club Wuppertaler SV.

Holly Lam-Moores

Born in Burnley, Lancashire, Lam-Moores started playing handball aged 12 at Alder Grange High School in Rawtenstall after it had been introduced by coach Bill Baillie.

Ian Joy

Joy immediately became a fan favorite then won the Regionalliga Nord Championship with St. Pauli getting promotion to the German 2nd Bundesliga in his second season.

Johannes Linßen

On 23 January 1971, while playing for MSV Duisburg against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Linßen received the first ever yellow card to be awarded in the Bundesliga, although the card should in fact have been awarded to his teammate Đorđe Pavlić, the referee having confused the two players.

Libor Sovadina

Libor Sovadina (born 2 November 1964 in Náchod) is a Czech former handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Maksimov

Vladimir Maksimov (born 1945), former Soviet/Russian handball player

Marcelina Kiala

She is the sister of fellow Angolan women's handball player, Luisa Kiala and the wife of Angolan handball coach Vivaldo Eduardo.

Marek Krejčí

Bundesliga and sharing the position of the league's second best goalscorer with Karlsruhe's Giovanni Federico.

Memić

Muhammed Memić (born 1960), Yugoslav handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics

Michaël Goossens

With the Gelsenkirchen club, Goossens notably scored in the quarterfinals of the 1997–98 UEFA Cup against F.C. Internazionale Milano, but the defending champions were eventually ousted after losing 1–0 away and a 1–1 home draw; with three goals, he was the best scorer in European competition for Schalke, but only netted five times in two and a half seasons combined in the Bundesliga.

Muamer Vugdalič

Born to Sabahudin Vugdalić, former handball goalie and current sports commentator on Televizija OBN, Muamer's early years of his career were associated with Olimpija Ljubljana.

Neale Marmon

He began his professional football career in Germany with VfL Osnabrück in the German 2. Bundesliga in 1985, having won the Oberliga championship the previous year.

Petar Filipović

A product of the FC St. Pauli academy, Filipović played mostly in their reserve team, making his debut, and his only Bundesliga appearance so far on 14 May 2011, entering for Dennis Daube in a game vs. 1. FSV Mainz 05.

Piotr Trochowski

His cousin Krystian is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Berliner RC in the Rugby-Bundesliga.

Pobjeda

Each day, half of its pages are devoted to football (National team of Montenegro, Montenegrin League and international leagues), whereas the rest deal with, in order of importance, basketball, volleyball, waterpolo, handball etc.

Rob Friend

During the 2007–08 season Friend scored 18 goals in 33 matches, making him Borussia Mönchengladbach's top scorer and the second top scorer in Bundesliga 2.

Robert Hoyzer

Hoyzer's career as a referee came to an abrupt end in January 2005 after he was suspected of betting on a first-round German Cup tie between regional league side Paderborn and 1st Bundesliga club Hamburger SV on 21 August 2004.

Rodrigo Millar

On 6 March 2004, it was reported that Millar was invited to train with the Bundesliga side Hertha BSC.

Søren Colding

Colding has been the general director for handball club AG København but left the club on 30 July 2012, just one day before the club filed for bankruptcy.

Szilvia Ábrahám

She stayed five years by the red and blues, where she worked together among others with legendary Hungarian handball coach Lajos Mocsai.

Tobias Welz

His made his Bundesliga debut at 28 August 2010 in a game between 1. FC Nuremberg and SC Freiburg.

Tomás González

Víctor Tomás (Victor Tomás González, born 1985), Spanish handball player

Tomas Svensson

Tomas Runar Svensson (born February 15, 1968 in Eskilstuna, Södermanland) is a Swedish retired handball goalkeeper who is currently goalkeeper coach for Rhein-Neckar Löwen.

Travis Varcoe

Varcoe played a critical role in delivering a handball to Paul Chapman late in the game which resulted in a brilliant Chapman goal giving Geelong a six point lead.

Veszprém stabbing

Cozma and other members of the KC Veszprém handball team (including Croat goalkeeper Ivan Pešić and Serb playmaker Žarko Šešum) arrived at the two-storey bar at around 12:30 a.m. to celebrate the birth of teammate Gergő Iváncsik's son and the birthday of teammate Nikola Eklemović.

VfL Bochum

;Bundesliga top goal scorer: 1985–86 (Stefan Kuntz, 22 goals), 2002–03 (Thomas Christiansen, 21 goals (w/Giovane Élber)), 2006–07 (Theofanis Gekas, 20 goals)

Viktória Mohácsi

After the murder of handball player Marian Cozma by Roma men (see Veszprém stabbing) she commented on TV that "he must have provoked them".

Walter Bechtold

This saw the team qualify for the next season's European Cup Winners' Cup, where they were knocked out in the first round by Belgian side Club Brugge K.V. Bechtold played for a year in the Bundesliga with Offenbach before being relegated back to the regional league.

Wolfgang Lakenmacher

Wolfgang Lakenmacher (born October 8, 1943 in Neuenhofe, Sachsen-Anhalt) is a former East German handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Zdzisław Antczak

Zdzisław Antczak (born November 20, 1947 in Miłkowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship) is a former Polish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Zorica

Zorica Vojinović (born 1958), former Yugoslav/Serbian handball player

Zvonimir Serdarušić

Zvonimir "Noka" Serdarušić (born 2 September 1950 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a former Bosnian Croat handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia.


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