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Guillaume Gille

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Guillaume Gille, born on 12 July 1976, is a retired French handball player and a coach. A playmaker, he played for Chambery from 1996 to 2002, then for HSV Hamburg in the Bundesliga, where he won the 2006 German cup, and returned to Chambery in 2012 before retiring in 2015. He played 276 matches and scored 658 goals for France, winning Olympic gold at the 2008 and 2012 Games, the 2009 World Championship and the 2010 European Championship. He is the older brother of Bertrand Gille. He became assistant coach of France in 2016 and head coach in 2020, and won Olympic gold as coach at the delayed 2020 Games, one of few men to win it both as player and coach.

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