Live Scores after the European Handball Championships 2016: European champion to land later in Berlin – THE WORLD

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Deep under the earth exploded the Icelandic volcano. Eyes wide, Dagur Sigurdsson put her golden championship trophy in the air and shouted out his joy. “Schalalala” bawled the otherwise prudent Icelanders and the German handball team agreed fervently with a.

After the “Miracle of Krakow” started match-winner Andreas Wolff and Co. in the basement of the restaurant “La Grande Mamma” in the heart of Old Town a wild EM Party – and even Sigurdsson mutated while the celebration beast. “. I am overjoyed about pride and disbelief You can not almost believe,” said the 42-year-old, still overwhelmed by the famous. 24: 17-success of his gang in the final against completely overwhelmed Spaniards

In fact, the World Handball will remember this Jan. 31, 2016 for a long time. The German Höhenrausch reached on Sunday evening again a new dimension. Sigurdsson’s team, the self-proclaimed Bad Boys, wrote an important chapter in German sports history and postponed the conclusion of their two and a half weeks of Wonder Poland once their own limits. A comparison with the EM-coups of soccer of Denmark in 1992 and Greece in 2004 holds the sensational title winning the DHB selection easy stand.

“We have an awesome tournament played “Wolff, who seemed to define the keeper match against Spain held with incredible parades and 48 percent balls again said:” We have as a team come together in an unprecedented form We have doubted in any second to us and always knew that we European champions. become.” And Sigurdsson was: “We have become stronger with every game.” The tournament was a “tremendous power” of the entire team have been

True. No writer in the world could produce a better dramaturgy for what German the team in Poland withdrew. After sporty streaky start and losing to Spain expecting only the most optimistic with such a tournament. Who could have imagined that Germany won as the youngest of all EM-teams, a team without six of their key players, in just two weeks going through a so impressive development, seven matches in a row and at the end of such a sovereign stormed Europe handball throne.

Sigurdsson is builder of EM triumph

builders of the German handball miracle is undoubtedly Germany coach Dagur Sigurdsson. Within a short time the Icelanders formed a team of nobodies a champion and led a starving sport so back into the limelight. In a climate of unconditional confidence grew among the German greenhorns also confidence in their own strength – by the minute, by the day. The almost logical consequence: the European title from Krakow. And thus the direct ticket for the Olympic Games this summer in Rio.

While the team’s coach Sigurdsson turned night into day, enjoyed the association peak around DHB Vice President Bob Hanning success in breastfeeding and headed home to celebrate an “expensive bottle of red wine” in the hotel room. “I am happy for the German handball,” Hanning told the SID: “We now have a great opportunity.” Unlike 2007, when it went rapidly downhill after the golden winter wonderland at the World Cup in their own country, to the European gold medal for Poland to be just the beginning of a bright future for the sport.

DHB selection aiming by European title Olympic victory in Rio at

“We are now among the world leaders, the mission is now to confirm,” Wolff said , This will “a lot of work”. And Hanning exulted: “The team now knows how success tastes,” says the 47-year-old,

The association superiors were last never tired of talking about the Olympic victory target 2020th This is now obsolete. After the neck blows missed the Olympic Qualifiers in 2012 and the European Championship in 2014 without German participation, the DHB-selection belongs suddenly the world leaders. The new goal, it is hard to say, can only be given the imminent return of key players such as captain Uwe Gensheimer or Steffen Weinhold: Olympic victory. 2016th

“I warn against believing now know that we are world class,” Hanning said. It was “on the way, but there will be setbacks. Germany will also have to Handball cry.” The major objectives would continue to be the Olympic gold medal in four years and the home World Cup of 2019. But, also stressed Hanning, “you should take along the way, what is still so lying there in the street”.

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