Andreas Keller

Andreas Keller ( born October 1, 1965 in Berlin ) is a German former hockey player and three -time Olympian. He played a total of 226 times for the German national hockey team.

Career

The midfielder Andreas Keller played for the Berlin HC. In 1982 and 1988, he became German Vice Champion in the hall.

After Keller became Junior World Champion in 1982, he made his debut in 1983 in the national team. In 1984, he won the European Indoor Championships. In the final of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles he faced with the German team of the team of Pakistan. After the regular season ended with 1:1, Pakistan succeeded in extra time 2-1. 1985 Keller became junior world champion again.

At the World Championships in London in 1986 the German team won the bronze medal, just like a year later at the European Championships. 1988 was the basement of the winning team at the European Indoor Championships. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, the German team in the preliminary round group B won, beating the team of Great Britain 2-1. In the final, the two teams were again compared and the British were victorious 3-1, the German goal in the final scoring Heiner Dopp.

In the 1990 World Cup, the German team finished fourth. In 1991, the team was once again European Indoor champion. On his third Olympics start in 1992 in Barcelona Andreas Keller was the third time in the final. Against Australia managed a 2-1 thanks to two goals by Michael Hilgers. After two Olympic silver medals and one gold medal Keller ended his career as a player.

As a coach Andreas Keller was the Berlin HC connected. Thus he succeeded in 2005 with the women's team winning the German championship.

Family

At the Olympic Games in 1936 Andreas Keller's grandfather Erwin had won a silver medal, the first medal for a German hockey team ever. His father Carsten Keller debuted in 1960 at the Olympic Games in 1972 and won Olympic gold, he ended his career as a German 's most capped player. His siblings Natasha, Olympic champion in 2004, and Florian, 2008 Olympic Champion, are successful hockey player. Moreover played Andrew's older brother, whose name is Thorsten, also in the Bundesliga for the Berliner HC, but was never called in contrast to his three younger siblings in the national team.

As Andreas Keller in 1984 won his first Olympic medal, he was only the third athlete to have managed in the third generation. The first family was the Norwegian sailors dynasty Lunde, won Olympic gold at the 1960 junior Peder Lunde. The second family was the Austro-Hungarian fencer Dynasty Bow Gerevich whose grandson Pál Gerevich won bronze in 1972.