Pierre Thorsson

Pierre Thorsson (2011)

As of November 9, 2013

Pierre Roger Valdemar Thorsson ( born June 21, 1966 in Linköping, Sweden) is a Swedish handball coach who ran aground in his playing days for the Swedish national team.

Thorsson initially played in his home in Karlskrona IFK and IF RF Saab Linköpings Lejon. In 1996, the left-hander to the then German second division side VfL ​​Bad Schwartau, with which he ascended to the Bundesliga in 1998 and 2001, the DHB Cup won. In 2001 he played for the Italian club Papillon Coversano, with whom he won the championship twice.

Thorsson 2003, he returned back to the Bundesliga, where he ran aground on the SG Flensburg -Handewitt. After a season in which Thorsson won the German Championship, he switched to Swedish club Hästö IF, where he was initially employed as a player and assistant coach. Later Thorsson took over as coach, which he held until 2008. From the summer of 2009, he participated as a youth coach at Hästö. In August 2012, Thorsson took over as coach of the women's team Flottans IF.

Thorsson completed 237 caps for the Swedish selection, in which he threw 557 goals. With the national team he won the 1990 and 1999 World Cup, and in 1994 and 2000 European champion. In addition, Thorsson took part in the 1992 Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000, where he won the silver medal each.