{{short description|Czech handball player}} {{sources needed|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox handball biography | name = Michal Barda | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|27 June 1955}} | birth_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia | death_date = | death_place = | position = Goalkeeper | height = 191 cm | clubs1 = {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}}Slavia Prague | years1 = 1965-1979 | clubs2 = {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}}HC Dukla Prague | years2 = 1979-? | clubs3 = {{flagicon|Germany}}TV Grosswallstadt | years3 = {{0|0000}}-1988 | clubs4 = {{flagicon|Germany}}TuRU Düsseldorf | years4 = | clubs5 = {{flagicon|Germany}}SG Stuttgart-Scharnhausen | years5 = | clubs6 = {{flagicon|Germany}}SC Leipzig | years6 = | nationalteam1 = Czechoslovakia | nationalyears1 = 1976-1992 | nationalcaps1 = 218 | nationalgoals1 = 4 | managerclubs1 = HC Dukla Praha | manageryears1 = 1992-? | managerclubs2 = Czechoslovakia | manageryears2 = 1992 | managerclubs3 = Czech Republic | manageryears3 = 1992-? | managerclubs4 = Switzerland (GK coach) | manageryears4 = 2016- | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's Handball}} {{MedalCountry | {{CZE}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{1988 Seoul|Team Competition}} }}
'''Michal Barda''' (born 27 June 1955) is a Czech former handball goalkeeper and coach who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.<ref name=sref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/michal-barda-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022347/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/michal-barda-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=15 July 2012}}</ref>
==Player career== Born in Prague, he practiced a lot of sports as table tennis, football and skiing when he started with team handball at Slavia Praha in 1965.{{cn|date=June 2025}} From the beginning he played in goal and was moved up to their senior squad at the age of fifteen. 1976, at the age of twenty-one, he made his first cap for Czechoslovakia; in total he played 218 caps and as a goalkeeper scored 4 goals between 1976 and 1992.{{cn|date=June 2025}} In 1979 and after 14 years with Slavia Praha, he moved to HC Dukla Praha{{cn|date=June 2025}} which he helped to raise to one of the most prominent European clubs at that time, including the 1984 Champions League win over Metaloplastika Sabac.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131030165708/http://todor66.com/handball/Euro_Cups/Men_CC_1984.html European Cup 1984 edition]</ref> This was for decades the only Champions League finals in handball history decided after penalty shooting. He was considered one of the best handball goalkeepers in the world and main force in the Czechoslovak national team where he acted as captain for more than a decade.{{cn|date=June 2025}} After Soviet 1984 Summer Olympics boycott he played his first 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. In that time he already played in Handball-Bundesliga in Germany. He was Cup Winners' Cup runner-up with TV Grosswallstadt in 1988 and the next season IHF Cup winner with TuRU Düsseldorf in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|language=de|title=Bardas Rückkehr als Torwarttrainer nach Düsseldorf|url=https://www.wz.de/nrw/duesseldorf/lokalsport/bardas-rueckkehr-als-torwarttrainer-nach-duesseldorf_aid-37316897|date=2019-03-08|access-date=2025-05-11}}</ref> In 1985 he played in the IHF World Selection Team against Denmark.{{cn|date=June 2025}}
==Coaching career== In 1992 Barda retired as player in Germany, returned to Czechoslovakia and became coach of HC Dukla Praha and Czechoslovak (later Czech) national handball team.{{cn|date=June 2025}} With his national team he finished seventh at 1993 World Men's Handball Championship in Sweden, eighth at 1995 World Men's Handball Championship in Island and sixth at 1996 European Men's Handball Championship in Spain.{{cn|date=June 2025}} He attained the highest Czech and German as well as EHF Master Coach handball coaching licenses.{{cn|date=June 2025}} For a long time he acted as lecturer for IHF and EHF, was Head of Commission of Coaching and Methods of the Czech Handball Federation and member of IHF Commission of Coaching and Methods. On behalf of International Olympic Committee he held Olympic Solidarity courses on all continents. He is one of the most recognized goalkeeping experts in handball. Since 2016 he acts as Goalkeeper coach with Swiss National Team Men<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.handball.ch/de/news/2016/nationalmannschaft-gysin-und-barda-komplettieren-den-trainerstab/|publisher=Swiss Handball Federation|title=Nationalmannschaft: Gysin und Barda komplettieren den Trainerstab|date=8 April 2016|access-date=22 June 2025|language=de}}</ref> which after 14 years of absence qualified for European Championship 2020 in Sweden. Beside Sports coaching he earned university degrees in Electronic Engineering and Business Administration and continued his civilian career on top international management positions in IT and Human Resources sector.{{cn|date=June 2025}} He works currently as freelancing coach, consultant and project manager in sports and business. Michal Barda is a member of Czech Olympic Coaching Academy.{{cn|date=June 2025}}
==Player clubs== *{{flag|Czechoslovakia}} SK Slavia Praha *{{flag|Czechoslovakia}} HC Dukla Praha *{{flag|Germany}} TV Grosswallstadt *{{flag|Germany}} TuRU Düsseldorf *{{flag|Germany}} SG Stuttgart-Scharnhausen *{{flag|Germany}} SC Leipzig
==Education== *{{flag|Czechoslovakia}} Electronic engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague *{{flag|Germany}} DHB Coaching License *{{flag|Czechoslovakia}} CHF Handball Coaching License at Charles University in Prague *{{flag|Austria}} EHF Master Coach *{{flag|Czech}} Master of Business Administration at Prague International Business School
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