Mait Patrail

Mait Patrail
Patrail with Al Sadd in 2013
Personal information
Born	(1988-04-11) 11 April 1988 (age 37) Põlva, Estonia
Nationality	Estonian
Height	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Left back
Club information
Current club	TV Emsdetten
Number	9
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2004–2008	Põlva Serviti
2008–2011	Kadetten Schaffhausen
2011–2012	TBV Lemgo
2012	Al Sadd
2012–2020	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
2020–2022	Rhein-Neckar Löwen
2022–2023	ASV Hamm-Westfalen
2023–2024	ThSV Eisenach
2024	ASV Hamm-Westfalen
2024-	TV Emsdetten
National team
Years	Team
2005–	Estonia

Mait Patrail (born 11 April 1988) is an Estonian handball player for German club TV Emsdetten and the Estonian national team. ^[1]

He was won the Estonian player of the year award 6 times between 2006 an 2011. ^[2]

Career

Patrail started playing handball at Põlva Serviti, where he debuted for the senior tem in 2004-05. ^[3] Here he won the 2007 and 2008 Estonian Handball League and the 2008 Baltic Handball League. ^{[4] [5]}

In 2008 he joined Swiss team Kadetten Schaffhausen. ^[6] Here he won the 2010 and 2011 Swiss Handball League.

In 2011 he joined German Bundesliga team TBV Lemgo. In April 2012 he was released of his contract and joined Qatari side Al Sadd, despite having a contract at Lemgo until 2013. ^[7] In the summer of 2012 he returned to Germany and joined TSV Hannover-Burgdorf. ^[8]

In 2020 he joined league rivals Rhein-Neckar Löwen. ^[9] A season later he joined the just promoted team ASV Hamm-Westfalen. ^[10] When the team was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga he left the team. ^[11] He was then without contract until the end of November 2023, when he joined Bundesliga team ThSV Eisenach. ^[12] Here he played until he end of the season. ^[13] He then joined the second team of ASV Hamm-Westfalen in the Regionalliga. ^[14] In November the same year he joined third league team TV Emsdetten. ^[15]

National team

At the 2008 Junior European Championship he was the tournament top scorer with 83 goals. ^[16]

Private

His father, Maidu Patrail, is a former handball player, ^[3] and his sister Janeli Patrail is also a handball player. ^[17]

References

1. "Mait Patrail". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
2. www.handball-world.com, 29. December 2011
3. "Mait Patrail auch in Rumänien mächtig unter Dampf". thw-provinzial.de (in German). Retrieved 17 November 2013.
4. "Titelträger Estland" (in German). bundesligainfo.de.
5. "Titelträger baltische Liga" (in German). bundesligainfo.de.
6. "Mein Weg nach Kiel ist vorgezeichnet" (in German). handball-world.com.
7. "Abgang: Mait Patrail verlässt Lemgo sofort" (in German). handball-world.com. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
8. "Vierter Neuzugang für die TSV Hannover-Burgdorf" (in German). TSV Hannover-Burgdorf. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012.
9. "Rhein-Neckar Löwen verpflichten Mait Patrail" (in German). handball-world.news. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
10. "Ein Löwe wird Westfale" (in German). ASV Hamm-Westfalen . Retrieved 20 June 2022.
11. "Offene Baustellen beim ASV Hamm-Westfalen zum Auftakt" (in German). wa.de. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
12. "Erster Kurzeinsatz am Donnerstagabend: Mait Patrail mit sofortiger Wirkung zurück in der LIQUI MOLY HBL" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
13. "ThSV Eisenach verabschiedete 5 Spieler" (in German). 26 June 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
14. "Überraschende Rückkehr in den ASV-Kader" (in German). 26 September 2024. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
15. "Emsdetten verpflichtet bundesligaerfahrenen Kreisläufer" (in German). 23 November 2024. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
16. "2008 Men's European Championship 20". history.eurohandball.com´. European Handball Federation . Retrieved 22 March 2022.
17. "Handball-Ass in der Warteschleife" (in German). Flensborg Avis. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2013.