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Wil Jacobs

Wil Jacobs

Dutch handball player

Wil Jacobs (born 7 June 1960) is a Dutch retired handball player.

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Career

Jacobs started playing handball at the age of 14 at Vlug en Lenig. As a youth international, he participated in the Junior World Championships in 1979 (Denmark) and 1981 (Portugal). Jacobs made his debut in the national team on 28 March 1980 in Aarau against Switzerland (26-14 loss). The B-World Cup in France in 1981 was his first major tournament, finishing in tenth place. After that, four more World Cups followed for him. In 1988, during the first edition of the Limburgse Handbal Dagen, he became top scorer on behalf of Vlug en Lenig.

In 1985 Jacobs moved to Belgian side Neerpelt and stayed there for three years.[1] In 1988 he returned to Vlug en Lenig for a season.[2][3] In the 1989/1990 season Jacobs again played for Neerpelt,[4] the following season he returned to Vlug and Lenig.[5]

On 20 June 1993, a benefit match against Germany for the victims of an attack in Solingen became his last appearance in the national team. His active career ended in 1997, after which he spent more than a year training the team of which he himself had been a part as a player.[6][7] Since then he has focused on his family.

In 2013, Jacobs went to train the B and later the A youth at Vlug and Lenig where his son played.

In 2017 he returned to the handball world for a short time, this time as interim coach of Bevo HC.[8][9]

References

  1. [1]
    Limburg verliest beste handballer Archived 2022-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Limburgs Dagblad, 17 April 1985
  2. [2]
    Wil Jacobs Archived 2022-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Het Parool, 11 May 1988
  3. [3]
    Wil Jacobs naar V en L Archived 2022-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Limburgs Dagblad, 11 May 1988
  4. [4]
    Massale uittocht bij V en L Archived 2022-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Trouw, 29 April 1989
  5. [5]
    Selecties Limburgse clubs in eredivsie Archived 2022-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Limburgs Dagblad, 20 September 1990
  6. [6]
    Jacobs snapt er niets van, Trouw, 26 February 1999
  7. [7]
    Hirschmann-V&L, Vlug en Lenig, 1998
  8. [8]
    Wil Jacobs is weer even terug in de handbalwereld Archived 2019-02-27 at the Wayback Machine, handbalstartpunt.nl, 15 November 2015
  9. [9]
    Tijdelijke nieuwe trainer/coach Bevo Heren 2 Archived 2022-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Omroep P&M, 9 November 2017
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