Germany men's national volleyball team
The German national volleyball team of men is a selection of the best German players who represents the DVV in international tournaments and international matches. Their biggest success was the fifth place at the 2012 Olympic Games and two fourth places at the European Championships. During the division of Germany at the same time the national team played in the GDR. After the reunification of some DDR players continued their career in the joint German team.
Current squad
In December 2013 the following players were members of the squad:
On 27 February 2012 the DVV appointed the Belgian Vital Heynen, who had been in charge of the first division Noliko Maaseik, as the new coach of the national team. He assist the former national player Stefan Hübner and Ralph Bergmann. Heynen was the successor to the Argentine Raúl Lozano, who was sacked after the unsuccessful European Championship in November 2011. Up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Stelian Moculescu was national coach.
To the coaching staff also includes physiotherapist Oliver Klenk, doctors Dieter Heinold, Thomas Stahl, Kai Dragowsky, Karsten Holland.
History
World cup
In the first participation in 1956 in France, the crew of the Federal Republic did not come on the 24th and thus, in the square. 1966 in Czechoslovakia, the West Germans were hardly successful at number 20. While the GDR four years later became world champion, the DVV team qualified for the World Cup no longer up to the reunification. 1994, qualified the team of the now united Germany for the first time a World Cup. In Greece, it was enough for ninth place. However, the following tournaments saw Germany again only as a spectator. This slump lasted until 2006, when the team of Stelian Moculescu qualified for the World Cup in Japan. There, the men started with four wins more successful than expected in the first four games. After a winless second round they finally reached even the ninth. The best placement of the German World Cup history reached the German men with German coach Raul Lozano at the 2010 World Cup in Italy with an eighth place.
European
Three EM tournaments took already place in Berlin ( 1983, 1991 and 2003 ), but the German teams were never finished in the top three of a European Championship itself. As a group, Second abolished the DVV - selection in a play-off against the Czech Republic qualify for the 2007 European Championships in Russia. There, the Germans failed in the second group stage. At the European Championships 2009 in Turkey, the German men occupied the sixth place, and at the 2011 European Championships in the Czech Republic would retire as a group Last in the preliminary round of. 2013 in Poland and Denmark, Germany ranked sixth again.
Olympic games
The Federal Republic was in Munich in 1972 for the first time qualified as hosts and finished at the end of the eleventh. After the tournament in their own country, Germany had to wait for the next part in the Olympic Games for 36 years. On 25 May 2008, the national team qualified to the tournament victory in Dusseldorf for the tournament in Beijing. There, the DVV selection managed only one victory against Egypt, which is why she was eliminated in the first round and finished ninth. 2012 made it the German volleyball again, to qualify after a 3-1 victory against the Czech Republic for the Olympics. In London, the German men reached after two preliminary round victories over Serbia and Tunisia the quarter-finals, where they lost to Bulgaria 0-3.
World Cup
The Federal Republic finished the tournament in 1969, which took place in Berlin, ranked tenth. 1991 Germany was the last time so far at the World Cup there and reached the fourth place.
World League
From 1992 to 1994 and from 2001 to 2003 Germany took part three times in a row at the World League. The German team never came, however, on the first round also. After a break of six years, Germany took in 2010 and again in 2011 at the World League in part and retired with a good second and third place respectively in the first round again. 2012 succeeded the German men for the first time qualifying for the final round, in which they reached the fifth place. 2013 it debuted at number eight.
Europe League
At the premiere of the Europa League in 2004 Germany fourth. After two fifth places in 2005 and 2006, the DVV men occupied in 2007 to sixth place. In 2008, the competition is usually encountered with a B- team selection after the group reached victory ( against Austria, Turkey and Belarus ), the Final Four, in which the Germans had only the fourth place after a defeat against Slovakia and Turkey hosts. 2009 was the first time to win the Europa League. In the final, defeating the DVV selection Spain 3-2.
Coach of the senior team
* Changing national coach at DVV 1958-1970