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In 1976, he was a member of the West German team that finished fourth in the Olympic tournament in Montreal.
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In 1976, he was a member of the West German team that finished fourth in the Olympic tournament in Montreal.
He was the Germany national handball team coach from 1997 to 2011. Heiner Brand joined at the age of seven the handball club VfL Gummersbach. Heiner Brand was also successful in the Germany national handball team, where he played a total of 131 games and scored 231 goals, including one penalty throw.
He played all six matches and scored twelve goals.
His first two international goals he scored in his first game for Germany was on July 1, 1974 in Holon against Israel. Heiner Brand has been a long-time coach for VfL Gummersbach (1987-1991 and 1994-1996).
In between, he was the coach for SG Wallau-Massenheim (1992-1994). Even before becoming a club coach, he was an assistant coach of the German national team (1984-1987), in which he became the fuul-time coach on January 1, 1997.
At the beginning of the new millennium, he raised the national team to the top.
lieutenant was announced on October 24, 2007 that Brand"s contract of the National team with the DHB would be extended until June 30, 2013. However, it was announced on May 16, 2011 that his post of national coach would expire on June 30, 2011. The results were the tenth place at the 2010 European Championship and the eleventh place at the 2011 World Championship.
lieutenant was the worst result in the history of the German National Championship.
Since 1. Juli 2011 Martin Heuberger is the successor to Heiner Brand. Heuberger has since 1.
November 2004 been Assistant to Heiner Brand und Company-coach of the German National Handball team 1984: Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, silver medal (as assistant coach)
1998: European Championship, third place
1999: World Cup, fifth place
2000: Summer Olympics in Sydney, fifth place
2004: Summer Olympics in Athens, silver medal, lost again against Croatia
2006: European Championship, fifth place
2008: European Championship, fourth place
2008: Summer Olympics in Beijing, ninth place
2009: World Cup, fifth place
2010: European Championship, tenth place
2011: World Championship, eleventh place.