A lot of them gave up from the team. Cupic, Sliskovic, Vukic, Alilovic, Sulic, Kopljar, Brozovic, Lackovic...etc. Handball can be played until late 30s. French players can play. They keep him because he is devoted Catholic and he obeys the staff. Virgin Mary helps to him. Not sure what happened against Germany. Metlicic is the actual coach.
The World Cup 2017 in France is ending soon, the last four teams came through all possible obstacles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_World_Men's_Handball_Championship A lot of surprises happened to the European teams. Poland ended their competition in the Group stage with one tight victory against Japan. Iceland was also weaker in the Group stage, impossible to go through against France, who is still the favourite number one. Defeats of Germany against Qatar and Denmark against Hungary are major surprises. After all, Germany is the European champion and Denmark is a Olympic champion. France won against old handball country Sweden harder than usually, 33-30. Sweden is returning back. It's also surprise to see Croatia as the winner against Spain, 30-29. Hungary lost its power against Denmark, so they could not win against Norway and make another surprise. Slovenia had easier road against Russia, Qatar. They had only two serious matches: Spain and Iceland. High defeat against Spain happened and tight victory against Iceland. It seems that Croatia could meet France in the final match. German defeat against Qatar Danish defeat against Hungary Last minute between Croatia and Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5hdXEjlyrw
Nice to see Sweden back into the game. They have an exciting young team. The future looks good for them. Beating them was a hard task and I' m happy we did that. Now we'll play in the Accor Bercy Arena in Paris : I can't see us losing in that place to be honest, but a good old France-Croatia final could be fun.
Scandinavian handball (Denmark, Sweden, Iceland) seemed always interesting to watch. It's always well organized, without errors in basic passes. France makes nice generation changes. Remili is a new player and already in PSG team. Same as Ludovic Fabregas and Dika Mem. It seems that France revealed Dipanda late, 28 years. I doubt that Narcisse, Omeyer, Karabatic, Guigou will retire after this World Cup. EURO is in the next year, World Cup in 2019, Summer Olympics in 2020. Locker room after the match against Croatia - Spain. Tomas missed empty goal, key moment overall. The last two minutes
France - Slovenia 31-25 Full match: This semi-finals match was very interesting, dynamic mostly from French side, but somehow Slovenia managed to return and stay few goals behind. It's interesting to notice that France scored again 31 goal, just like they did against Iceland (31-25), Brazil (31-16), Japan (31-19), Norway (31-28). So it's important for them to score more than 30 goals, because this means safe victory. Nikola Karabatic for Croatian media. Croatian fans in Paris It's important to notice that Norway doesn't end in semi-finals too often, even though they are great handball team for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_national_handball_team They don't participate at Summer Olympics since 1972. Last two world cups they were at home and on previous world cups, they were mostly 9th or even lower. Their best result is fourth place at EURO 2016. It was 31-24 for Croatia in a third place match. Again 31 goal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_European_Men's_Handball_Championship Negative thing for Croatia is Norwegian coach assistant, who is a Croat. He knows everything about Croatian players and Norway can use that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Željko_Tomac On the other hand, Nikola Karabatic is half-Croat, the same awareness he can predict and transfer to Dinart. It seems that Narcisse and Karabatic can't follow demanding matches. New generation is already present. Great performance of Porte, Remili, Gerard, Mahe, N'Guessan (who shoots very strong, his main assignment), Fabregas and Dipanda.
Croatia lost against Norway in semifinals match. After additional time, missed penalty at the end. Strange and hard attempts on goal for Croatia, outside players were bad, no wingers. Norway made their actions much faster, their goalkeeper was better. Some young and unconfirmed players are used in Croatia. Generations are changed every 3,4 years. Complex of semifinals is continued. No idea how to pass that barrier and end in the final match.
Everything about the EURO 2018, you can find here: https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/handball-in-croatia.2079586/
I almost fell out of my chair when I saw Cutler's comments about Handball. What a moron! https://www.reddit.com/r/Handball/comments/ew6zym/jay_cutler_retired_american_football_player_wants/ https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/02/05/luka-doncic-warns-jay-cutler-team-handball/ Karabatic says he'll play against Cutler's "Team": https://www.instagram.com/p/B8jg1KVHySK/?igshid=ccj2jofon6c0
Norway are European women's handball champions once more thanks to a 22-20 win over France in Herning, Denmark on Sunday. It was Norway's eighth title in the last 12 editions of the tournament. This clash of handball heavyweights, both teams unbeaten coming into the final went the Norwegians way, they lead 14-10 at half-time after two unanswered scoring runs of 4:0 and 5:0, then withstood a late French surge to see it out. Despite their physical strength, Rio 2016 silver medallists France could not counter Norway's superior speed and dizzying movement. The Norwegians punished repeated two-minute penalties in the first half, and a third for French captain Grace Zaadi Deuna late in the second half proved devastating. Captain Stine Oftedal and Nora Mørk led the way with winger Camilla Herrem, a survivor from Norway's gold at London 2012, at her clinical best, and Silje Solberg performing heroics in goal. The margins stayed tight with France keeping within one or two goals of their opponents for much of the second half. France captain Siraba Dembele Pavlovic netted crucial goals and 'keeper Cleopatre Darleux put in a 'Player of the Match' performance, and they went in front 19-18 late on. But the Norwegian stars delivered when it counted most and two late Mørk goals ended French hopes of retaining their title. This was a repeat of the 2017 World Championship final and Norway exacted revenge for their defeat in Hamburg.
And Croatia's third place is one of the greatest upsets in Croatian sporting history, and bigger. Incredible feat by those girls. Really incredible. They have won every game but Norway in group and France in semis. In each game they were the underdogs, in multiple games odds were 10,00 + (invest 10 euros, win 90 euros).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_World_Men's_Handball_Championship The 2021 IHF World Men's Handball Championship will be the 27th event hosted by the International Handball Federation to be held in Egypt from 13 to 31 January 2021.
Congratulations to team Norway in their title run at December 2021 Ladies World Championships! What a comeback in the final game against France! They now hold the World and European crowns plus Bronze at Olympics!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_European_Men's_Handball_Championship 2022 EHF European Men's Handball Championship Numerous favourites. Plenty of talent. 8,9 teams seem great. Netherlands is one of new teams on the scent. Portugal continues to be interesting, just like Slovenia, Iceland, Hungary. Spain, Norway, Croatia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France seem good. Poland is fading, compared with last decade. Last EURO 2020 went like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_European_Men's_Handball_Championship Don't remember much, because of Covid 19 media coverage. Handball History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball Very dynamic sport, with needy fast eye vision, speed, strength, often with heavy collisions, contacts, hard technical abilities of winger players, different curved balls, great goalkeepers in each decade, nice playmakers and outside shooters, attractive moves. This sport isn't for everyone. You must be tall, strong, sneaky in defence, clever in attacks. Several main schools: Scandinavian, German, French, Croatian, Spanish. Can't wait!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_World_Men's_Handball_Championship The 2023 IHF World Men's Handball Championship is the 28th such event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It is currently being held in Poland and Sweden from 11 to 29 January 2023. Denmark are the two-times defending World Champions, having won the 2019 and 2021 edition.
And the USA wins their first ever game at the World handball Championship, no? Historic somewhat you could say....
Yes, the first victory in World Cup events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_men's_national_handball_team Some things are changed now. Several players play in strongest European handball countries: Spain, Germany, France, Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway...usually these countries win the medals. USA also qualified for World Cups 2025, 2027. These three national team events are the most important in handball. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Men's_Handball_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Men's_Handball_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball_at_the_Summer_Olympics Club level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_EHF_Champions_League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_EHF_European_Cup
I truly hope they will invest some resources into the sport, it needs more "big markets", as Americans would say, and there will be no better opportunity for the US than LA hosting the 2028 Games.
You mean the Olympics? Hmm, I think unfortunately I think there will be just too many other sports going on for there to be any real hype around handball. Unfortunately our media tends to focus on not just sports that we're competing but the ones were expected to win. Anyway, how's Qatar doing? Are they still still importing the majority of their team or are they beginning to play more local-based players?
Yes, I assumed something like that, but I hope they can go a bit forward now, little interest raise would have been nice... I think Americans would love that sport, it is pretty physical. Qatar has 5-6 foreigners, I saw them vs Germany few days ago, most of them with ex-Yugoslavia origins. Others are Arab players (don't know if they are "imported" from North Africa - that's strongest region outside of Europe - or domestic ones).
Aquatic sports, disciplines in athletics, rowing, gymnastics. Much more money involved. Qatar won 1 and lost 2. But, they are going further. They have won what they had to win. The other two were harder to expect much. Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Egypt are in best positions.
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And I see USA get their 2nd ever win, 24-22 v Belgium. If I'm not mistaken Belgium are also WC debutants so maybe not that big of a deal. Quarterfinals are set: France v Germany Sweden v Egypt Norway v Spain Denmark v Hungary So who do you think are the favorites to win it all at this point?