Who Is The Best Danish Coach At World Cup 2013?
The World Cup 2013 in Serbia has concluded Group play and teams are in the midst of preparing for the first elimination round beginning this weekend. Of all nations that were mentioned as potential medal contenders at the outset of the tournament only the Danish squad has yet to demonstrate that they can hang with the best. In the narrow loss against host Serbia Jan Pytlick’s troop forgot how to… »
Is It Mueller’s Time?
The Women’s World Cup 2013 in Serbia is in full swing and in the next two rounds teams will establish order of authority before elimination games commence on Sunday. The debate will no longer focus o… »
Drammen
The last handball tournament played on Norwegian soil in preparation for the 2013 World Cup in Serbia took place in Drammen a city better known for Aass, the country’s oldest surviving beer brewery fo… »
Morituri Te Salutant
“Those who are about to die salute you”. Anno Domini 52 this Latin phrase was reportedly used for the first time during an event on lake Fucinus when captives and criminals were destined to die fighting during mock naval encounters in the presence of emperor Claudius. 1,961 years later the participants of women’s EHF Champions League Group 2 (or Group 1 for that matter) will not suffer the same… »
Achilles & Gossé
No – this is not another expensive fragrance made-in Paris or new brand of champagne from Reims the quaint de facto capital of the Champagne-Ardenne region in France. Although it may well be that cham… »
Who Is Anja Althaus?
The short answer sounds like this: Anja Althaus, German, 31 years of age, nickname “Oskar”, professional handball player at Thueringer HC. A somewhat more exhaustive answer is certainly warranted give… »
Ida : Hardworking Woman
The name “Ida” originates in Germanic language and means “hardworking woman.” Nowadays the name is mainly popular in Scandinavian countries such as Norway. Indeed not many adjectives could describe Ida Alstad (28) the multi-purpose back player of the national Norwegian handball team in a better way as she spends a lot of time and energy perfecting her skills on the handball court. Nobody less tha… »
Danish Dynamite
What do the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, the Danish shipping magnate Arnold Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Patrick Stewart, known as Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek, “The Next Generation” and Kristina… »
Mozart In Wetzlar
The most recent career stops of Ivano Balic (34) were not exactly the outcome of careful planning. When his contract expired in 2012 with RK Zagreb he went on to join Croatia’s national team in prepa… »
I’ll Be Back!
Unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger in his epic movie “The Terminator” Yevgeni Trefilov did not have it in his own hands when Russia’s Handball Federation (RHF) concluded in a tight 5:4 vote that it was in the nation’s best interest to bring back the experienced but highly controversial coach. Only twelve months ago Trefilov was relieved from his duties at the helm of Russia’s national women handball tea… »