Team Denmark’s director, Lone Hansen, is astonished that the Danish world champions in denmark must leave the ongoing european championship finals already after the initial group stage.
the Effort at the tournament in Sweden does not coincide with the expectations, as Team Denmark for Nikolaj Jacobsen’s star-studded crew.
– It is both surprising and unexpected, it is almost unreal. It is hard to understand, that it is over at that point, when you look at the team and the expectations that have been to the team, before EM went in. So it is unreal and inexplicable, ” says Lone Hansen.
the Men EM-disappointment comes, just one month after håndboldkvinderne also went through a slutrundefiasko at the WORLD cup in Japan, where the team than not managed to qualify for the upcoming OLYMPIC qualification.
Out from the two failed finals you can not, however, conclude that the Danish handball has a big problem on the landsholdsniveau, points out, Lone Hansen.
– I do not think, I will say that håndbolden have a challenge in general. But it is absolutely unacceptable, unreal and mind-boggling, that gentlemen lose their EM-chance and drop out so early.
– But you have to remember that they came to the tournament as the OLYMPICS and WORLD cup-winners, so you can’t just isolate it here result and say that the Danish handball has big problems.
– When it is said and done, it is incomprehensible that we are faced with a team with so much success and great games over a long period of time, that we see it fall apart in some matches, where I certainly had not imagined that it would become so difficult, she says.
the Danish Handball Federation is ranked as a so-called “verdensklasseforbund” of Team Denmark. Håndboldforbundet received in 2019, almost 12 million dollars in the Team Denmark-support.
Question: Must DHF fear that the results mean anything for the support, connected get?
– We start, not to mention support at this time. But it is quite clear that there must be something the search to the top of the exit as early in a euro tournament. Just as soon as we have people back from Malmö, we have scrutinized how it has gone so wrong that we are not even in the mellemrunden.
– It is one of the worst results in a long time for Danish denmark. It provides food for thought, and it should always be examined thoroughly, says Lone Hansen.
Handball – 15. jan. 2020 – pm. 20:55 – I am insanely sorry
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Jan Jensen – 15. jan. 2020 – pm. 09:54 Hello, Denmark: Then show it!
