Moritz Fürste
Moritz Fürste
Birthday: October 28, 1984 Place of birth: Hamburg, Germany
Club Info
Club: Uhlenhorster HC Position: Midfield
Youth career
Uhlenhorster HC
Senior career
- 2012: Uhlenhorster HC 2012 - 2013: Club de Campo Madrid 2013 -: Uhlenhorster HC
Honours
2008: Winner Euro Hockey League 2010: Winner Euro Hockey League 2012: Winner Euro Hockey League 2013: Winner India Hockey League with Ranchi Rhinos
Awards
2012: Election to the World Hockey Player
National successes
2006: World Champion 2006: 2nd place Champions Trophy 2007: World Indoor champion 2007: 1st place Champions Trophy 2008: Gold Olympic Games in Beijing 2009: 2nd place European Championships 2010: 2nd place World Cup 2011: World Indoor champion 2011: European Champion 2012: Gold Olympic Games in London 2013: European Champion 2014: European Indoor Champion
Moritz Fürste ( born October 28, 1984 in Hamburg ) is a German hockey player in 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion.
Career
Moritz Fürste played since his youth when Uhlenhorster HC. The same team also played his brother Jonas; the greatest success of the brothers with the club was the three-time winning the Euro Hockey League 2008, 2010 and 2012. 2008 and 2010 he was also named Most Valuable Player of the Euro Hockey League. For the season 2012/13 he moved to the Spanish club Club de Campo Madrid, returned after a year but back again.
2005 Moritz Fürste debuted in the German national hockey team. In the same year the midfielder fourth at the FIH Champions Trophy was. 2006 once the German team took second place at the Champions Trophy. Even more successful the team was in the World Cup in Mönchengladbach, as it defended the title in 2002. In 2007 he Fürstes second world title at the World Indoor Championships in Vienna. In the outdoor season, the German team won the Champions Trophy in 2007. During the Olympic Games in 2008 he won the German team gold. He was 2009 European Cup runners-up England and 2010 in India World Cup runners-up behind Australia. In February 2011, he was part of the successful team at the Indoor Hockey World Cup 2011. In August 2011 the German team won at the Field Hockey Championship in Mönchengladbach in the final against the Netherlands. In the 2012 Olympics he won gold again.
In January and February 2013 Fürste played in the newly formed Hockey India League ( HIL). He had applied on their own initiative and was committed in a draft from the team Ranchi Rhinos for three years. In a four-week round five franchises established the Indian Masters. In the final Fürste won as captain with his team 2-1 victory over Delhi Waveriders with the Germans Nicolas Jacobi and Oskar Deecke. He was also voted the best player of the finals. For his guest, he received 84,000 U.S. dollars. In the summer he defended with the German team the European title.
Moritz Fürste completed 204 matches, 14 of them in the hall. (As of December 9, 2012 )
In 2012 he was honored as world hockey player.
Private life
As Moritz Fürste was nine years old, his father was the sinking of the Baltic ferry Estonia in 1994 lost their lives.
After completing a dual degree at the HSBA in Media Management in conjunction with an education in business and marketing communication at a Hamburg advertising agency Moritz Fürste is currently completing a master's program at the SRH Fernhochschule Riedlingen.