Simon Schobel (born February 22, 1950) is a former

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

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 competed in the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the ...

. He was born in

Sebeș Sebeș (; German: ''Mühlbach''; Hungarian: ''Szászsebes''; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Melnbach'') is a city in Alba County, central Romania, southwestern Transylvania. Geography The city lies in the Mureș River valley and straddles the river ...

Alba County Alba County () is a county (județ) of Romania located in the historic region of Transylvania. Its capital is Alba Iulia, a city with a population of 63,536. Name "Alba", meaning "white" in Latin and Romanian, is derived from the name of the ...

. In 1972 he won the bronze medal with the Romanian team. He played all six matches and scored two goals. In 1973 he defected to West Germany after a game that his team

Universitatea Cluj Asociația Sportivă Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj (), commonly known as Universitatea Cluj or simply U Cluj, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the L ...

had played there. In 2004 he was arrested on suspicion of tax evasion, and released in January 2005. In 1982 he was appointed manager of the German men's national handball team, at 32 the youngest ever. As of 2012, he was again living in Romania.

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References

* ''Lexikon der Handballer'', Komet Verlag, S.200,

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* * 1950 births Living people People from Sebeș Sportspeople from Alba County Romanian male handball players Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Romania Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in handball German people of German-Romanian descent Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-Olympic-medalist-stub