Carsten Keller

Carsten Keller ( born September 8, 1939 in Berlin ) is a former German hockey player and Olympic champion. He played a total of 133 times for the German national hockey team of men.

Life

Even before he starts school learned basement to deal with the hockey stick, because even his father Erwin Keller won at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the silver medal. Later, he met an insurance salesman.

Carsten Keller took first time in 1960 at the Olympics in part and finished seventh. Eight years later, he was with the German team fourth at the Olympic Games in Mexico City.

1972 in Munich, he was gold medalist as captain of the national team, thus ending the long-standing dominance of Pakistan in this sport ( the Pakistani players were banned for life for Unsportsmanlike conduct after the game and only on the highest political intervention years later pardoned ). After this victory, he retired as German 's most capped player from active competition and became a coach for the Berlin Hockey Club. In this role, he won twelve times the German championship with youth teams. Carsten Keller works full-time as an independent general agent of an insurance company.

Children

Three of his children are also medal winners at the Olympics. His son Andreas won gold in Barcelona in 1992 and silver in Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988. 's Daughter Natasha won the gold medal at the Summer Games in 2004. Son Florian Keller won the gold medal at the Summer Games in 2008.