handball. In his role as coach, the ex-national player took over the German national team in 1996 at a low point and led it, among other things, to winning the European Championship, the Handball World Cup and became World Champion with it in January 2007. At the 2008 European Championships, the team takes 4th place. Heiner Brand, the likeable face of success, became world champion as national coach of the German men’s national handball team in 2007. Thus, he was the first handball player e