Michael (sometimes spelled Mihai) Redl (23 April 1936, in Lugoj – 20 August 2013, in Schongau, Germany) was a Romanian-born German handball player and coach. He played as a goalkeeper, and won two world championships.
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Representing  Romania
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1959 Austria (field) | Team |
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1961 Germany | Team |
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1964 Czekoslovakia | Team |
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1967 Sweden | Team |
With Dinamo București he won nine national handball championships and one field handball championship.[1] and the European Champions Cup in 1965.[2]
At the Handball World Championships in 1959 and 1961 he was named "Best Goalkeeper"[citation needed].
In the 11 years that he played for the Romanian national team he played in 129 games.
After he retired from active play, he was a coach for Dinamo's youth team (for eight years) and assistant coach for the first team (for three years).
Redl, who was nicknamed "The Black Cat", was also a graduate of the Police Academy (1958), and retired as a lieutenant colonel.
In 1987, five years after one of his sons- also called Michael, a national team handball goalkeeper- defected to Holland (during a game Dinamo played in Arnhem), Michael Redl was allowed to emigrate to West Germany.[1] There he coached among other teams, MTSV Schwabing in Munich, where both his sons, Michael and Hans, were goalkeepers.
Honors and awards
edit- Sport Master, 1959
- Honored Sport Master, 1961
- The Sport Order, Second Class with bar, 2009[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Geschichten" (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ^ "Istoria jocului" (PDF) (in Romanian). Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ^ "Basescu" (in Romanian). Retrieved 14 May 2014.