HSC 2000 Coburg trainer: Alois Mraz.
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Five games in two weeks – handball Bundesliga team MT Melsungen has a busy program to complete by Boxing Day. The home game on Thursday from 7 p.m. in the Kassel Rothenbach-Halle against promoted HSC Coburg will kick off.
Kassel – five games in two weeks – handball Bundesliga team MT Melsungen has a busy program to complete by Boxing Day. It starts with the home game tomorrow, Thursday from 7 p.m. in the Kassel Rothenbach-Halle against promoted HSC 2000 Coburg. So far there have hardly been any duels against the club from Franconia, but they know what to do with Coburg in the MT camp.
Painful bankruptcy: With the recommendation of a fourth place in the table from the previous season, the Melsung team started playing for the 2016/17 series on September 4, 2016. “We had a good preparation,” recalls Felix Danner. But the opening encounter against newcomer Coburg turned into a nightmare for MT: 20:25 home bankruptcy. “I can’t remember the course of the game. But I know it wasn’t that comfortable, ”says Danner. Despite spectators, there was a ghostly atmosphere in the hall at the Kassel exhibition center after the game. After all, the North Hesse decided the second leg against the later relegated with 28:25 for themselves. There have not been more games between the two teams so far.
Melsunger circle: Felix Danner.
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Special relationship I: Jan Gorr was Coburg’s coach for a long time. Since this season, the former assistant coach of the German national team has been the HSC managing director. Today’s Melsung manager Axel Geerken wanted to bring Gorr to Gummersbach in 2012. But then VfL decided to continue working with Emir Kurtagic. Geerken did not want to support the decision – and left the old master. Geerken maintains a good relationship with Gorr to this day: “We exchange information regularly. If he ever needs a tip, I’ll be happy to help. “
Special relationship II: The MT managing director is not only in good contact with Gorr, but also with Coburg’s new trainer Alois Mraz. The Czech was a teammate in Wetzlar and lives just like Geerken in Dutenhofen – when he’s not out and about as a handball teacher in Coburg. Curious: Geerken’s son Mathi plays together with Mraz’s son, who is also called Alois, in the C-youth group at HSG Wetzlar.
Former Coburg: Two well-known trainers have already worked for Coburg and Melsungen. The Franconians celebrated successes in the second and third highest class especially under the Croatian handball legend Hrvoje Horvat, who worked for the MT predecessor club MSG Melsungen / Böddiger from 2000 to 2004. Georgi Sviridenko, meanwhile coach of the Melsunger Reserve, was responsible for the HSC team for at least a few months. The former MT actor Vladimir Suma also made a lasting impression in Coburg. (Björn Mahr)
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