Playing against her former teammates from FC Midtjylland will be an emotional experience for current Gyor player Nycke Groot. By Peter Bruun For one of the players on the court of Gyor’s Audi Arena it will be a particularly special experience, when the two Ukrainian referees Tetyana Rakytina and Iryna Tkachuk blow the whistle for the start of the Champions …
Finally – the 2015/16 Women’s Champions League season went underway matching Romania’s “All-Star” team CSM Bucuresti with Poland’s MKS Selgros Lublin. Find all important information below. Before the Match While CSM Bucuresti’s coach Kim Rasmussen had a complete bench at his disposal, his counterpart Sabina Wlodek had to do with only eleven players. Amongst the one’s missing were Lublin’s left …
Two or three teams appear like the most obvious favorites to win the Women´s Champions League, but the number of contenders is bigger than usual. By Peter Bruun Friday of this week marks the start of the Women´s EHF Champions League group phase. At first sight, the whole tournament looks more balanced than so many times before, but of course, …
35-year-old Rikke Skov makes no secret of the fact that Denmark´s new national coach Klavs Bruun Jørgensen has played a great role in her decision to return to the team. By Peter Bruun Denmark´s two EURO’16 qualifiers against Turkey and Portugal last week were Rikke Skov´s first competitive matches with the national team since the London Olympics in 2012. Actually, …
“I have drawn a line in the sand, and everyone has crossed that line, so now we can look forward,” CSM Bucuresti´s new coach tells stregspiller.com in this exclusive interview. By Peter Bruun Many people in the handball word asked themselves – and each other – if Kim Rasmussen really gave himself a late birthday present when he signed on …
Match of the week – in fact, it may have been the game of the EHF Champions League season 2015/16 already – MVM Veszprem vs. SG Flensburg-Handewitt.; the Hungarian Champion and runner-up of the 2015 Final4 in Cologne against the unlikely 2014 winner of handball’s premier competition. Going into the match Flensburg was riding high following a fantastic win over …
Why is it that handball players- and coaches at the international top level are always so much easier to approach than footballers, for instance? By Peter Bruun “You almost need security clearance from the intelligence service to get a comment from a Danish football international these days,” was the ironic comment from a colleague following an international match of the …
It does not bother Peter Portengen, coach of Dutch women´s champion SERCODAK Dalfsen, that his best players constantly leave for foreign adventures. By Peter Bruun In the Netherlands, no female handball team can compare to SERCODAK Dalfsen. The girls from the small town of Dalfsen (its population is only a bit above 27,000), win the Dutch championship year after year …
By Peter Bruun The disappointments of last season have taught Gyor to focus on one task at a time. Right now, it is the Champions League qualification tournament in Drammen, Norway. Coach and players from Serbian champions WHC Radnicki Kragujevac do not expect much respect from Gyor, when the two teams meet Saturday afternoon for the first semi-final in Qualification …
By Peter Bruun WHC Radnicki Kragujevac gladly accepts the role of the underdog in the Women´s Champions League qualifying tournament in Drammen. If the players and coaches from WHC Radnicki Kragujevac were the least bit frightened of their meeting with mighty Gyor on Saturday afternoon, they were hiding it extremely well at the training on Friday evening. A very relaxed …