Andreas Nilsson (handballer)

Andreas Nilsson on February 8, 2014

Status: National February 7, 2014

Andreas Nilsson ( born April 12, 1990 in Trelleborg ) is a handball player from Sweden.

The 1.97 -meter and 110 -pound pivot player stood until the summer of 2012 at Skovde under contract. He then moved to German Bundesliga side HSV Hamburg. With the HSV 2013 he won the Champions League.

For the Swedish national team Andreas Nilsson has played 57 international matches in which he threw 130 gates; he stood in the extended squad for the World Cup 2011. For Sweden he played six games at Euro 2012, in which he scored thirteen hits. In summer 2012, he participated in the Olympics in London and won the silver medal. At the European Championships in 2014, he transformed all 23 throw attempts.