Michael (sometimes spelled Mihai) Redl (23 April 1936, in Lugoj – 20 August 2013, in Schongau, Germany) was a Romanian-born German

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player and coach. He played as a goalkeeper, and won two world championships. With

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he won nine national handball championships and one field handball championship. and the European Champions Cup in

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. . In the 11 years that he played for the Romanian national team he played in 129 games. After he retired from active play, he was a coach for Dinamo's youth team (for eight years) and assistant coach for the first team (for three years). Redl, who was nicknamed "The Black Cat", was also a graduate of the Police Academy (1958), and retired as a

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. In 1987, five years after one of his sons- also called Michael, a national team handball goalkeeper- defected to Holland (during a game Dinamo played in Arnhem), Michael Redl was allowed to emigrate to West Germany. There he coached among other teams, MTSV Schwabing in

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, where both his sons, Michael and Hans, were goalkeepers.

Honors and awards

*''Sport Master'', 1959 *''Honored Sport Master'', 1961 *The Sport Order, Second Class with bar, 2009

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Redl, Michael 1936 births 2013 deaths CS Dinamo București (men's handball) players People from Lugoj Banat Swabians Romanian male handball players Sportspeople from Timiș County