Matthias Witthaus
Matthias Witt House ( born October 11, 1982 in Oberhausen ) is a German hockey player. The attacker is most capped player of the German national hockey team and won at the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, the gold medal.
Life
Witt House grew up in Ratingen. He began his hockey career in 1988 at HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim. Further stations of his career were the Bundesliga club Crefelder HTC and Atletico Terrassa. With Terrassa he was Spanish champion. After Witt House played at Crefelder HTC, with whom he became German champion in 2006. In autumn 2008, he moved back to Atletico Terrassa, with whom he played in the Euro Hockey League 2009. In 2009 he went to the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona, with whom he reached the Euro Cup semi-final. In 2010 he moved to Mannheim HC.
Matthias Witt House made his debut in the German national hockey team on June 3, 1999 during a friendly match against Belgium in Krefeld. Thus Witt House is the youngest player ever to play for the German national hockey team and also the youngest player to score a goal. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he finished fifth with the German team. Two years later he was hockey world champions.
2003 could Witt home win with the national team three titles, the European Indoor Championships, the World Indoor Championships and the European Championship. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, he won the bronze medal. The same prize was awarded to the team the following year at the European Championships. In the 2006 World Cup in Germany Witt house was the second time hockey world champions.
In Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games Witt House won with the German team in the final against Spain 1-0 and became Olympic champion. He was 2009 European Cup runners-up England. 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. 2012 Witt house indoor European champion. In his last game wearing the national jersey he won with the German team in the final of the London Olympics with 2-1 win over the Netherlands.
Witt completed house 356 international matches, including 29 in the hall. ( Release 24 June 2012) With his 350th international match he broke in 2012 as Philip Crone 's most capped player from. 2002 and 2008 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf. He studied in Cologne Sport Science, 2012, he graduated with diploma.