GROUP E – Familiar faces

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PREVIEW – Group E in Malmö consists of teams who know each other very well from previous championships. The ruling Olympic- and World champions from Denmark are the team to beat, but this group may be anything but a walk in the park for the men of head coach, Nikolaj Jacobsen. By Peter Bruun The four teams in Group E …

GROUP B – Can the co-hosts deliver?

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PREVIEW – On to Group B, where Austria is one of the three co-hosts. It will be interesting to see what Austria can accomplish given home-court advantage, in what looks like the weakest group of the competition. By Peter Bruun  No doubt, playing at home always is an advantage, especially in a major tournament. In Group B, we find one …

GROUP A – The Balkan Party

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PREVIEW – Group A is made up of three teams from former Yugoslavia. Croatia look like the odds-on favorites, but they will have their work cut out for them – certainly in the main round. By Peter Bruun We begin our preview taking a closer look at Group A – the Balkan party, includes Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, plus Belarus. …

Quo vadis, Denmark?

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COLUMN – After another disappointing championship, Denmark’s officials will have to ask themselves if their women´s national team really is no better than this, or if something can be done to boost women´s handball at national team level in a country with an impressive tradition in this sport. By Peter Bruun Denmark´s women’s national team has a hash-tag named “På …

Peter Bruun’s Corner

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Welcome to “Peter Bruun’s Corner”. Peter is a Danish freelance journalist since 1999 with 14 years of radio experience including live reports covering the sport of handball as well as football. He currently writes for UEFA, EHF, Press Association, and Handball Woche to name a few. In this new section Peter will share his thoughts and insights into the world …

You big, roaring bear, I am gonna miss you!

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OPINION – He is a coach, who almost everybody has something to say about. Evgeny Trefilov, head coach of Russia’s women’s handball team, announced his retirement from active duty not too long ago.  It marks the end of a coaching career that has been successful, colorful and controversial at times. The roaring, Russian bear deserves a farewell. By Peter Bruun First …