Leading figures of the referee guild
Sunday was a special day for international handball with the european championship final in serbia. The same was true from a regional point of view, as referees fritz brotzeller from bergrheinfeld and wolfgang benzinger from konigsberg were honored in marktsteft for their 1 000. Game honored as referee team – a number for the local handball history books.
Brotzeller has been whistling since 1982, initially with his club colleague gunther fey. He estimates to have "directed something like 1,300 to 1,400 games," through the games with his first partner and individual assignments. Duplication of circumstances: in 1990, brotzeller and benzinger met at the squad training course and were both left alone because their respective partners had stopped. "We quickly realized that we fit together," fritz brotzeller recalls, and her referee vita backs up this statement. Because the players from bergrheinfeld and konigsberg rose steadily and in 1995 made the leap into the B squad of the german handball federation (DHB). There they were seven years in the use in games up to the 2. Bundesliga manner and the 1. Bundesliga of women.