New swing in Flensburg: Young coaches shape handball future!

New swing in Flensburg: Young coaches shape handball future!

Flensburg, Deutschland - Magnus Frisk Jensen takes on a key role in the Flensburg Academy and thus signals major changes in the power range. From now on he will take over the central management tasks in the area of ​​B-youth, A-youth and the Bundesliga reserve. This reports Handball-World . The academy relies on a strong team: Olaf Knüppel is new on board, who acts together with Matthias Hahn as head coach of the A-youth. Knüppel is enthusiastic about the responsibility, which is on his shoulders and describes them as an exciting and honorable task.

When we look at the B-youth, everything stays the same, because Jonah Sowada and Jürgen Bauer continue to run the fortunes. There is also news in the second team coaching team: Leon Witte, a former SG Flensburg-Handewitt player and with experience at HC Empor Rostock and Stralsunder HV, complements the team. Johann Volquardsen, Managing Director of Flensburg Akademie GmbH, emphasizes that this personnel decisions would like to strengthen the basis and to create space for development steps for both players and trainers. The strategy of the academy focuses heavily on its own talent to promote identification and regional anchorage.

Magnus Frisk Jensen: A promoted with vision

Magnus Frisk Jensen, who has worked as a talent coordinator since mid -2022, went on a steep career path. At the age of 28, he already had some stations in handball. Originally he comes from Rapstedt and has always dreamed of one day coach of the first team of SG Flensburg-Handewitt, be it as a co-trainer or in the chief position. Unfortunately, he had to end his active career at an early stage due to an Achilles tendon injury. Nevertheless, the ambitious Jensen sees himself well equipped: "I feel strongly in the training of talents," he says with a view to his master's thesis on talent promotion, which he wrote at the Southern Danish university.

In his new function, Jensen has numerous tasks: In addition to his work as a talent coordinator, he is also athletic trainer and is responsible for training for the U19, U23 as well as the U15 and U17. He also works closely with the cooperation clubs DHK Flensborg and TSV Nord Harrislee. His return to the border region after buying a house in Tingleff underlines his commitment to strengthen Danish-German cooperation. A special knowledge he has made is the different way of dealing with talent promotion in Germany and Denmark. In Germany, it is important to convey values ​​such as discipline and high training intensity, while the SG Flensburg-Handewitt is more oriented towards Danish guidelines.

training for trainers: The focus is on the youngsters

Not only at the club and academy level is screwed at the trainer quality. Since Whit Monday, a DHB certificate training for young coaches in competitive sports, which is tailored to the requirements of HBL and HBF youth coordinators, A youth league coaches and state selection coaches, has been taking place since Whit Monday. This training, which has been offered since 2016, is intended to ensure that the trainers are optimally prepared for the challenges of young talent work. Topics such as talent identification and development, individual technical training as well as healthy athletes are treated.

Head of the training is Jochen Beppler, the chief youngsters, and he is supported by a number of experts who bring in their expertise. For example, 22 young coaches are currently taking part in this one -week presence phase. This shows impressively that the youth work in handball is at the top of the agenda and is to be continuously improved.

With all these changes in the Flensburg Academy and the commitment of coaches like Magnus Frisk Jensen, SG Flensburg-Handewitt can be sure that the talents of tomorrow are in the best hands and the handball is well positioned in the region.