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Robert Andersson (handballer)

Robert Andersson (born 24 November 1969) is a Swedish handball player, who won the European championship with Sweden.[3] He goes by the nickname 'Knirr'.[4]

Career

Anderssons senior debut was at his hometown club IFK Ystad HK. He then joined city rivals Ystads IF HF, where he won the 1991-92 Swedish championship. In that season he was the league top scorer with 189 goals.[4]

This prompted a move to German Bundesliga team TSV Bayer Dormagen, where he played for three years before joining Swiss team RTV 1879 Basel.[5] In 1996 he returned to Germany to join OSC Rheinhausen.[6] After Rheinhausen had to withdraw from the Bundesliga due to financial trouble, he joined 2nd Bundesliga team HSG Nordhorn.[6] In 1999 he was promoted with the team to the Bundesliga and in the 2001-2002 season he came second in the Bundesliga. As his contract ran out at the end of the season, he joined TuS N-Lübbecke in January 2023.[7]

In 2005 he returned to Sweden to join LUGI HF.[8] In 2008 he joined Ystads IF again, where he retired in 2008 due to a shoulder injury.[4]

With the Swedish national team he won the 1994 and 1998 European Championships.

He represented Sweden in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics, where Sweden took silver medals both times. In 1992 he was a member of the Swedish handball team won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played six match and scored six goals.

Four years later he was part of the Swedish team which won the silver medal again. He played two matches and scored one goal.

Coaching career

When he retired as a player he became the coach at IFK Ystad HK.[9] In 2013 he moved to coach recently promoted team H 43 Lund.[1]

In March 2015 he became the coach at German Bundesliga team HC Erlangen, where he replaced Frank Bergemann.[10] He was relieved of his duties in October 2017 due to not getting the expected results.[11]

In the summer of 2018 he became the head coach of Swedish team HIF Karlskrona.[12] Between 2020 and 2023 he coached the German team TuS Ferndorf.[13][14]

Private life

His son Julius Lindskog Andersson is also a handball player.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b ""Knirr" tar över i H 43" (in Swedish). Ystads Allehanda. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Statistik" (in Swedish). Swedish Handball Federation. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Robert Andersson". SR Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  4. ^ a b c ""Knirrs" karriär över". ystadsallehanda.se (in Swedish). Ystads Allehanda. 2 November 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Samtliga Internationals" [all national team players] (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Handball Federation. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Gegnerkader OSC Rheinhausen Saison 1997/98". thw-handball.de (in German). THW Kiel. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
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  8. ^ "Gegnerkader TuS N-Lübbecke Saison 2004/2005" (in German). thw-handball.de. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  9. ^ ""Knirr" pekas ut som ny tränare i IFK Ystad" (in Swedish). skanskan.se. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  10. ^ "Erlangen präsentiert Nachfolger für Bergemann" [Erlangen presents the replacement for Bergemann] (in German). handball-world.com. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  11. ^ "Zweiter Trainerwechsel der Saison: Erlangen trennt sich von Andersson" (in German). handball-world.news. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  12. ^ Ny tränare: “Knirr” Andersson at hifkarlskrona.se (Error: unknown archive URL) (archived 27 April 2018)
  13. ^ "Ehemaliger Europameister wird neuer Trainer beim TuS Ferndorf". tus-ferndorf.de (in German). TuS Ferndorf. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  14. ^ "TuS Ferndorf und Robert Andersson gehen ab Sommer getrennte Wege" [TuS Ferndorf and Robert Andersson goes different ways in the summer]. handball-world.news. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  15. ^ "Handball: VfL verpflichtet Julius Andersson" [Handball:VfL signs Julius Andersson] (in German). hl-live.de. Retrieved 19 February 2020.