2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #3 - Handball Qualifications for upcoming Summer Olympics 2012 in London. 6 April 2012 18:00 Croatia v Japan Varaždin Arena, Varaždin 6 April 2012 20:15 Iceland v Chile Varaždin Arena, Varaždin 7 April 2012 16:00 Chile v Croatia Varaždin Arena, Varaždin 7 April 2012 20:15 Japan v Iceland Varaždin Arena, Varaždin 8 April 2012 15:30 Japan v Chile Varaždin Arena, Varaždin 8 April 2012 18:00 Croatia v Iceland Varaždin Arena, Varaždin Varazdin Arena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varaždin_Arena City of Varazdin, ex-capital of Croatia, city of baroque: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varaždin Photos of Varazdin: http://www.google.hr/search?q=Varaz...ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBwQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=667 Few videos: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_6nKd-J-AE"]Video razglednica Grada Vara?dina - YouTube[/ame] Varazdin was important line during Croatian-Serbian war, Croats needed to defend this city, Serbs wanted to invade from Varazdin military house, because Serbs were in Yugoslav military mostly, they had weapons, but Croats defended this city: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaulA4Rn1cs"]Vara?din - Osloba?anje vojarne - rujan '91 - YouTube[/ame] Cultural manifestation of Varazdin, famous annual activity: Spancirfest. Videos of Spancirfest through years: http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...613l2669l0l3402l2l2l0l0l0l0l407l731l3-1j1l2l0. The word Spancir comes from German word Spazieren, which means To Walk, so this means Walk Festival, cultural approach for visiting different cultural activities in Varazdin. Football of Varazdin is on low position. NK Varazdin is after all suspended in lowest level of football in Croatia, County League. They did not played two matches in a row, two players asked their money from management, they could not get the money. Every opponent of Varazdin will get 3-0 result without playing. The club was founded on 3 June 1931. Today they have worse problems ever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK_Varaždin Croatian handballer Ivano Balic wont play on this tournament, because of his back problems, chronical injurie. One train station in London will carry his name during these Summer Olympics. 361 sportspeople will have this honor, among them we can find: Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, Muhammad Ali, Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens, Nadia Comaneci, with several other handballers: Magnus Wislander (Sweden), Andrei Lavrov (Russia, ex-player of handball club Zagreb) and Danish female player Camilla Andersen. Ivano Balic has his birthday today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano_Balić