Michael Redl

Michael (sometimes spelled Mihai) Redl (23 April 1936, in Lugoj – 20 August 2013, in Schongau, Germany) was a Romanian-born German handball player and coach. He played as a goalkeeper, and won two world championships.

With Dinamo București he won nine national handball championships and one field handball championship. and the European Champions Cup in 1965.

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In the 11 years that he played for the Romanian national team he played in 129 games.

After he retired from active play, he was a coach for Dinamo's youth team (for eight years) and assistant coach for the first team (for three years).

Redl, who was nicknamed "The Black Cat", was also a graduate of the Police Academy (1958), and retired as a lieutenant colonel.

In 1987, five years after one of his sons- also called Michael, a national team handball goalkeeper- defected to Holland (during a game Dinamo played in Arnhem), Michael Redl was allowed to emigrate to West Germany.