Robert Andersson (born 24 November 1969) is a Swedish

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 won the European championship with Sweden. He goes by the nickname 'Knirr'.

Career

Anderssons senior debut was at his hometown club

IFK Ystad HK IFK Ystad HK is a Swedish handball club based in Ystad, founded in 1927. History The club won promotion to the top division, at the time known as Allsvenskan, in 1941, but were relegated after one season. They did not return until 1997, when ...

. 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. This prompted a move to German

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team

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, where he played for three years before joining Swiss team

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. In 1996 he returned to Germany to join OSC Rheinhausen. After Rheinhausen had to withdraw from the Bundesliga due to financial trouble, he joined 2nd Bundesliga team

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. 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. In 2005 he returned to Sweden to join

LUGI HF Lugi HF is a professional handball team from Lund, Sweden. Both the men's and women's teams play in the top division in 2023–24, Handbollsligan and Handbollsligan (women's). Sports Hall information *Name: – Sparbanken Skåne Arena *City: ...

. In 2008 he joined Ystads IF again, where he retired in 2008 due to a shoulder injury. With the Swedish national team he won the

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and 1998 European Championships. He represented Sweden in the

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and in the

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, 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

. In 2013 he moved to coach recently promoted team

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. In March 2015 he became the coach at German Bundesliga team

HC Erlangen HC Erlangen is a handball club from Erlangen, Germany. They currently compete in the Handball-Bundesliga. History HC Erlangen was made as a merger between HG Erlangen and CSG Erlangen. In the 2000/2001 season, both HG Erlangen and CSG Erlangen ...

, where he replaced Frank Bergemann. He was relieved of his duties in October 2017 due to not getting the expected results. In the summer of 2018 he became the head coach of Swedish team

HIF Karlskrona HF Karlskrona is a Swedish handball club based in Karlskrona, founded in 1938 under the name ''Hästö IF''. In 2014 they changed their name to ''HIF Karlskrona''. In 2022 they merged with the club Karlskrona Handboll, under the new name HF Ka ...

. Between 2020 and 2023 he coached the German team TuS Ferndorf.

Private life

His son Julius Lindskog Andersson is also a handball player.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Robert 1969 births Living people Swedish male handball players Olympic handball players for Sweden Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in handball Sportspeople from Ystad Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportsmen IFK Ystad HK players Ystads IF players Lugi HF players