Hans Einar Magnus Wislander (born 22 February 1964) is a Swedish former

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player, who has been voted ''Handball Player of the Century'' and is widely regarded as one of the best players ever. Since his debut in the national team in

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he has played over 384 games and scored over 1,185 goals, which is the record for both most matches and most goals on the Sweden national team. He played for

Redbergslids IK Redbergslids IK (RIK), is a professional handball team from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1916. Redbergslid is the most successful club in Sweden, having won 20 Swedish Championship titles. Home games are played in Prioritet Serneke Arena. Red ...

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

and

THW Kiel THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles. 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed t ...

. In 1990 he was named IHF World Player of the Year. He was included in the

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Hall of Fame in 2023. He played primarily as a centre back, but in his latter years he transitioned to be a pivot. He has earned the nickname 'Slangen' (The hose).

Career

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Wislander started playing handball at Tuve IF, before joining Gothenburg club

in 1979. Here he won the Swedish championship 4 times. In 1990 he joined German top club

, where he played until 2002 and won the German championship 7 times. He played 369 league matches for the club, scoring 1,371 goals and captained theteam from 1991 2001. He then returned

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. In 2003 he won his fifth Swedish championship. He retired in 2005, and continued as the coach. He continued as a coach until 2022. On November 2011 he made a one game comeback at the age of 47 for

against Hammarby IF. He played for 6 minutes and scored one goal. At Kiel, his shirtnumber (#2) is retired and hangs under the roof at the Kiel home arena Ostseehalle.

Post playing career

Wislander has worked as a handball expert on Swedish radio and a postal worker at

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Club Honours

Redbergslid

* Elitserien (5): 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 2002–03

Kiel

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(7): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2001–02 *

DHB-Pokal The DHB-Pokal (English: German Handball Federation Cup) is an elimination handball tournament held annually in Germany. It is the second most important handball national title in the country after the Handball-Bundesliga championship. DHB-Pokal ...

(3): 1998, 1999, 2000 *Supercup (2): 1995, 1998 *

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

(2): 1998, 2002

Individual

* IHF World Player of the Year - 1990 *Best player of the 20th century by: IHF *Best player of the 20th century by:

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

*Elected best player of

in the 20th century *Record for caps and goals in the Swedish national team *Best player at 2002 European Championship *Elected best handball player of the year in

: 1986 and 1990 *Elected best handball player of the year in

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: 2000 *Voted Best foreign player of

: 1994, 1995, 1996 *Voted Best Player

: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 * EHF Hall of Fame: 2023

World Championships

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

- gold *

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

- bronze *

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

- bronze *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

- silver *

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

- gold *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

- silver

European Championships

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

- gold *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

- gold *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

- gold *

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

- gold

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wislander, Magnus 1964 births Living people Swedish male handball players Olympic handball players for Sweden Handball-Bundesliga players with retired numbers Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Swedish expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Handball players from Gothenburg Olympic medalists in handball Redbergslids IK players THW Kiel players Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportsmen 21st-century Swedish people Swedish expatriate handball players in Germany Swedish handball coaches

Career

Post playing career

Club Honours

Redbergslid

Kiel

Individual

World Championships

European Championships

See also

References

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