Kevin has been a freelance journalist and photographer for half a decade now. His experience includes writing for French website “Handnews” as well as “Hand Action” the magazine and the EHF Media Team.
In this section, Kevin will try to take a deeper look into the sport he fell in love with when he was a teenager.
By Kevin Domas After six seasons abroad, Siraba Dembele is back in France. Over the summer she joined Toulon Saint-Cyr Var Handball, a club where she played for three years before leaving. Objectives in the south of France are somewhat lower but her motivation is still at the highest level. “I just needed to come back home.” After considerable time …
By Kevin Domas During the last three seasons he only played a handful of games after having suffered three major injuries, including a torn ACL and two shoulder surgeries. In May of this year, he watched his teammates from Montpellier lift the Champions League trophy while sitting in front of the TV. And later in the spring, his coach broke …
Photo: Kevin Domas By Kevin Domas INTERVIEW – Kim Ekdahl du Rietz is definitely a player hard to catch. Following his decision to leave handball at the end of the 2016/17 season, he elected to re-join Rhein-Neckar Löwen in March of this year before signing a new contract in Paris. A good time to talk with the man who openly …
By Kevin Domas INTERVIEW Patrice, Montpellier played the last preparation games at the 2018 Eurotournoi in Strasbourg. Is your team where you want it before the start of the season? PC: As a coach you are never truly satisfied but at this tournament we played against three teams at the Champions League level and it provided us some good feedback …
By Kevin Domas INTERVIEW – Nantes reached the Final Four of the Velux EHF Champions League already in their second try and to some it felt like a surprise. But for those who follow European handball more closely over the past couple of years, it didn’t. After the successful 2017/18 season, players and coach, Thierry Anti, were eager to take …
By Kevin Domas INTERVIEW – Among the sixteen players who lifted the Champions League trophy on Sunday, in Cologne, left-wing Michaël Guigou was the only one who was on the court when Montpellier won their very first Champions League title, back in 2003. He looks back at the past fifteen years. Michaël, you won the Champions League in 2003 and …
By Kevin Domas Recent days have been tough for Montpellier. On Tuesday, the guys not only lost an away game in Saint-Raphaël, but probably the championship as well after enjoying a six-point advantage as short as three months ago. In this bizarre state of mind Montpellier’s players arrived in Cologne, on Thursday evening, to take part in their first ever …
By Kevin Domas Three years is a very long time for a club with the biggest budget in the world of handball but the crew has yet to lift the Champions League trophy. And what would have applied to the club’s football team, it does for Paris Saint Germain’s handball division – to finally win the Champions League this weekend, …
By Kevin Domas David Balaguer is one heck of a successful handball player. After grabbing the gold medal at EURO 2018 together with his Spanish teammates, the right-winger of HBC Nantes has a golden opportunity to reach the 2018 Champions League Final4 this Sunday – on one condition: Protect the six-goal advantage that the French side gained in the first …
By Kevin Domas For the first time ever, France has qualified three teams for the EHF Champions League quarter-finals, and if you like, add the two clubs that will compete for the EHF Cup Final. Only Germany (2009 and 2011) and Spain (2007) did better, enlisting four clubs among the eight best teams in Europe. Back then, “Liga Asobal” and …