Andreas Thiel

Andreas Thiel 27 September 2008

As of February 15, 2010

Andreas Thiel ( born March 3, 1960 in Lünen ) is a former German handball goalkeeper.

Thiel was active at Alemannia Aachen (1974-1977), TV high village (1977-1979), VfL Gummersbach (1979-1991), TSV Bayer Dormagen (1991-2000) and the SG Flensburg- Handewitt ( 2001). He played 528 games for Gummersbach, Dormagen and Flensburg in the Handball - Bundesliga. Thiel is 256 games for the German national team goalkeeper with most international matches and is the number of bets on Rank 5 of all German national team. He took in 1984, 1992 and 1996 at the Olympics in part. With the VfL ​​Gummersbach Thiel was also five times German Handball Champion, three times German Handball Cup winners and twice won the European Handball Champions Cup. Seven times he was elected handball player of the year.

On 21 May 2000, the then 40 year old Thiel denied because of the imminent birth of his third daughter his last Bundesliga match against TuS Nettelstedt.

Because of its exceptional reflexes in handball Thiel still carries the nickname of The Witcher. In his Bundesliga career, he parried 430 seven-meter throws.

Today, Thiel is goalkeeping coach at the handball players of DHC Rheinland and in the women's handball team of Bayer Leverkusen. Professional Thiel operates as a lawyer - he studied alongside his handball career 1980-1993 Law - a law firm in Cologne. As a lawyer, Thiel is the sport continue to work closely together. He is an arbitrator at the German Sports Arbitration Court and Chairman of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of the professional clubs in the German Table Tennis Association. Moreover, Thiel 's Counsel of Handball - Bundesliga.

His younger brother Joachim also plays handball, he is like his brother goalkeeper. Joachim Thiel currently plays for the TV high village in the Southwest Regional.