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Get together in Friday evening The 11th Men’s European Championship for Club Teams got underway on Friday evening, with the spirit of a family party. The German Sport and Olympic Museum was the location for the occasion, which proved to be the perfect opportunity to get a bit of fresh air away from the handball arena. Michael Wiederer Secretary General of the EHF noticed it straight away, and the participants in the press conference obviously felt the atmosphere too, on the banks of the Rhein. The “hello” was big and was stressed that it was all about a “get together” before the real throw off. The handball players were all there and soon were having a chat amongst them, which included Gummersbach Keeper Nandor Fazekas and Arpad Sterbik, the world handball player of the year, who had played togther for years at the Hungarian club of Vezprem – Goran Stojanovic was listening in on the conversation too. Mirza Dzomba (Ciudad) was excited to see his mate from Croatian national team, Vedran Zrnic (Vfl). The young Russian Denis Zakharow (Vfl) gave his ex-colleagues an insight into his new life in the “golden west”. And lets not forget the Icelandics on this side of the continent Lemgoer Logi Geirsson and Asgeir Hallgrimsson as well as Olafur Stefansson (Ciudad), Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson and Robert Gunnarsson (beide VfL) speculated about their chances in the upcoming World Championship, where they will also meet up against Daniel Narcisse (France). Then on the other side of the room, Alfred Gislason (VfL) and Volker Mudrow (Lemgo) reflected on the meeting of the team 10 days ago. Then there were the oldies, Andreas Thiel and Stefan Hecker chatted about the development in the goalkeeper world with the museum director, who said “they are all such nice people!” After the arrival of the Norwegian EHF President Tor Lian, there was a speech and then the buffet was opened. It goes without saying that there was salad on offer (we were at a sport dinner after all), and local specialities, like potato soup, and then there was fish on offer and best beef. After the team went home to prepare for the matches the officials and the journalists gossiped about who’s who in handball these days. It wasn’t just Hans-Peter Krämer, who left the museum with a big grin on ´his face, Alfred Gislasson left the museum too a happy man, Olafur Stefansson bought a huge piece of ham with him from Spain. “That’s the best ham in the world” says Gislasson. Now we are sure that the he’ll stay captain of the Icelandic national team.           |