Norwegian coach at Hungarian national team

Norwegian coach Karl Erik Böhn is the new manager of the Hungarian women’s national handball team. His contract expires until after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. However, his contract may be supervised or even canceled.

Karl Erik Böhn is the first foreign citizen to manage the women’s national handball team. As a player, he played in the Norwegian national team 126 times. His greatest success as coach was at the helm of the Norwegian club Larvik where he won five championship and cup titles and reached the semifinals stage in the women’s Champions League, in addition to winning the Cup Winners’ Cup in 2007.

“It is a great challenge for me to manage the Hungarian national team. I would like to unite the successful Norwegian and Hungarian styles. I have been in Hungary for 6-7 weeks, but I’m impressed how much players train here,” Böhn said.

The previous manager of the national team, Eszter Mátéfi, a former Hungarian international, resigned June 12th after the team suffered a double defeat from Germany in a world championship qualification duel, thus, will be missing from the world championship tournament and is very likely to be absent from the 2012 London Olympic Games, as well.