When Alfred Gislason was appointed as their men’s national team coach in 2020, Germany knew they had a mountain to climb, as a serious rebuild was handed over to the Icelander.
In the short term, the first results were certainly not what Germany would have wanted and envisioned, as the 2021 IHF Men’s World Championship in Egypt brought the worst result in the team’s history: Germany finished 12th, just one place behind their previous worst outing, recorded in 2011.
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