German handball celebrated its greatest triumphs under his aegis.

With Heiner Brand as national coach, the national team won the European Championship title in 2004 and the World Cup title in 2007. Successes that the German selection at the World Cup in Egypt is far from.

She failed in the main round and can no longer move into the quarter-finals.

Brand, 68, has been the only German to have twice been world champion in handball: in 1978 as a player (middle back) and later as national coach.

He is a member of the Hall of Fame of German Sports and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

WELT AM SONNTAG:

Mr. Brand, there is a lot of criticism about the organization of the World Cup during the corona pandemic.

Would you have traveled to Egypt with a clear conscience if you were still the national coach?