Staffan Olsson returns as a handball coach.
He does so as the new captain of the Dutch men’s national team.
It will be fun and inspiring to coach and coach a team that plays attractive handball, says the legend in a press release.
Staffan Olson He left supreme handball when he resigned as assistant coach of Paris Saint-Germain in 2018.
Since then, he has had smaller and shorter assignments as individual development coach at HK Varberg and sports director for the American Handball Association. Most recently, he was a training mentor in Hammarby.
But the 58-year-old is now making a comeback in world handball.
Today it is clear that he will be the new national team captain for the Dutch national team that stormed the world of handball at the European Championship in January when they ousted Hungary and Portugal with an attractive handball before finishing only tenth in the World Cup finals. The second championship in 60 years.
Held during the Olympics
Olson has signed a two-year contract, which thus extends to a possible Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.
The Netherlands already missed the World Cup finals in Sweden in January after losing to Portugal in the play-off. But they then earned a college ticket for the championship and faced, among others, Norway in the opening group.
I am really looking forward to coaching the Dutch men’s handball team. It is an interesting challenge to develop the team and get to know Dutch handball. It will be fun and inspiring to coach and coach a team that plays attractive handball,” Olson says in a press release.
Thus, the Netherlands leads the Swedish in both women’s and men’s. Since this spring, Per Johansson has been the national captain of the successful women’s national team.
Staffan is a very enthusiastic and experienced coach. As a Confederate coach, he also has experience building on talent development. So we are very proud that we were able to appoint someone of his caliber as the new coach of our national team. We are convinced that Staffan will raise Dutch men’s handball now and in the future and look forward to a successful collaboration, said the association’s sports director Serge Rink in the same press release.
