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.
Déjà Vu
Women´s EHF Champions League quarter-final – 1st Leg stergspiller.com – MATCH OF THE WEEK REVIEW – It looked like a film seen before, as FTC lost their seventh EHF Champions League quarterfinal match in the past four seasons. The Hungarian team showed fine moral, but despite missing Anna Vyakhireva and Ana Paul Rodrigues, Rostov-Don were simply the better and smarter team this Sunday, in Erd. By P… »
Last call for Kristiansen?
INTERVIEW – In a week from now, Vipers Kristiansand may have qualified for their very first EHF Champions League FINAL4 if the Norwegian champions can defeat Buducnost in the quarter-finals. To one of… »
Will FTC break their quarter-final curse?
Womens´s Champions League quarter-final – 1st Leg stregspiller.com – MATCH OF THE WEEK PREVIEW – Three years in a row, the quarter-final has spelled the end of FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria’s run in… »
“Winning titles will never get old”
INTERVIEW – Despite all the cups and precious medals, Nycke Groot collected in Györ over the past four years, she’s still hungry for more. In this exclusive interview with stregspiller.com, she realizes that winning the Champions League may not be a given, once she joins Odense, but she expects to lift that very trophy with the Danish club at some time in the future. For now, her goal is to defeat… »
+++ Telegram – Champions League (M) – Round of Last 16 – 2nd Leg +++
By Peter Bruun Top HBC Nantes Not only was it impressive to witness how the French side managed to turn the tables and eliminate Rhein-Neckar Löwen. After all the German side were leading by two goal… »
Flensburg leave Brest no chance
Men´s Champions League- Round of Last 16 stregspiller.com – MATCH OF THE WEEK REVIEW – SG Flensburg-Handewitt is the only German team competing in the VELUX EHF Champions League quarter-finals this se… »
Flensburg aiming to celebrate 200th Champions League match with quarter-final berth
Men´s Champions League stregspiller.com – MATCH OF THE WEEK PREVIEW – On Sunday, SG Flensburg-Handewitt will receive HC Meshkov Brest for the second leg in the Round of Last 16 – it will be Champions League match number 200 for the German champion. Chances are that Flensburg will celebrate the anniversary with a ticket to the quarter-finals, as they beat the club from Belarus 30:28, last weekend.… »
+++ Telegram Champions League (M) Last 16 – 1st Leg +++
By Peter Bruun Top HBC Nantes A two-goal defeat (34:32) in Mannheim, in the first leg against Rhein-Neckar Löwen despite missing playmaker Nicolas Clair should be considered a success, from the the pe… »
“Hafra shows the attitude I am looking for – she really works hard”
INTERVIEW – Kim Rasmussen is almost all the way through his three years as coach of Hungary´s women’s national handball team. During this time, his efforts have been restrained by numerous injuries an… »
Nantes keep door open after two-goal defeat
Men´s Champions League stregspiller.com – MATCH OF THE WEEK REVIEW – Rhein-Neckar Löwen were leading by five goals with eight minutes left to play, but in the end had to settle for a two-goal win, at home, in the first leg of the Round of Last 16 against HBC Nantes. The result leaves Nantes with a good chance to reach the quarter-final, while Rhein-Neckar Löwen are in real danger of exiting the VE… »