Handball: Füchse Berlin for Champions League Start: “Etwas Besonderes”

After eleven years, the Füchse Berlin will abstain on Thursday for a comeback in the Handball Champions League. «There is a good feeling that this revival and a reassurance will result. This is a special one, said the Danish Olympian Lasse Andersson. For the start, the Berliner will equally take on the ambitious Hungarian Meister Veszprém HC (20:45 Uhr/Dyn).

The Vorfreude is great and the nervousness will erase the Berlin nieces. «Da muss man von Anfang en da signal. When the man of all times comes, the man comes into the Halle and the Hymne spielt. Then comes the energy of selber, said Andersson, who played in the Premier League in his career with FC Barcelona and Kolding IF. There has never been a Füchse-Spieler von sich behaupten.

Böse Pleite in der Vorbereitung

Dennoch is the theme inheritance of coach Jaron Siewert and he is second rank. “Veszprém may not be in the Champions League, but he has not spent the entire Wettkampf night in the Bundesliga. If you want something, you can play anything. It was a wettkampfhart that the German men had a wettbewerbsvorteil, as there.

First, work was done on the Füchse at a Testturnier in Halle (Westphalia) on Veszprém. You can’t see the Berliner yet and play 41:32. “We are more aware of our knowledge and our thinking, we are better off on the left,” says Siewert. The test game hat for a small Aussagekraft. «We want to erase it, it was our erwartet», eränzte there.

Accept and advance

After the national Super Cups were won and the Bundesliga matches had begun, the Füchse indulged in the game. “We have no fear. This end is now a handball game. The man is not nervous. In the Bundesliga it is a top match,” Andersson said.

Berlin’s other group partners are Paris St. Germain, Sporting Lisbon, Dinamo Bucharest, Wisla Plock (Poland), Fredericia Håndbold (Denmark) and HC Eurofarm Pelister (Nordmazedonia). “I have found a good group and many other people,” says World Handball player Mathias Gidsel.

In the Champions League match of the 2011/12 season, the players avoided the jump into the Final Four. “And that chance is big, if everything goes well,” Gidsel prophetically stated bluntly.

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