Berlin has not solely three Danish world champions, but in addition the most effective participant of the event.
Matthias Gidsel will return to Berlin’s Fuchsee in February.City Press GmbH
Last Sunday, Berlin additionally turned the world champion in handball. Because Hans Lindberg, Jacob Holm and Matthias Gidsel had been the three Danish gamers of Fühse Berlin on the prime of the rostrum on the World Handball Championships held in Poland and Sweden. After defeating France 34:29, Denmark achieved a feat that no different nation in handball historical past has achieved: it has gained three World Cups in a row. Three foxes performed an enormous half in it.
Foxes CEO Bob Hanning is pleased with the costs in opposition to him. “I’m actually comfortable for all three of them, particularly as a result of they’re actual personalities,” says Hanning. Of course, they watched Denmark’s three particular skills carry out on the World Championships in Berlin, and Hanning stated there was occasional contact. After all, it was additionally a historic World Cup for Foxes.
The Berliners have had three world champions in Lindbergh, Holm or Lasse Andersson, however the formidable Foxes have but to win a Most Valuable Player (MVP), an important participant in your entire World Cup. Mathias Gidsel’s star rose within the final spherical. Organizers voted the 23-year-old Danish participant the most effective participant on the final Olympic Games in Tokyo. He was additionally the event’s prime scorer with 60 objectives – not together with a seven-meter throw.
Gidsel turned the “Most Wanted Player within the World”.
“He’s probably the most sought-after participant within the world proper now,” Hanning stated. You can inform that supervisor Max-Schmeling-Halle is proud to see a handball participant of this caliber taking part in each week in a fox jersey. In explicit, the Danish left-hander’s long-term contract (till 2028) now turns into an actual coup. “Bringing him in over the summer season wasn’t only a sensation,” says Hanning, “it was a a lot greater sensation than having him tied up for a very long time.”
Denmark turned the world champion in handball for the third time in a row.imago/Bildbyran
The Foxes are the precise membership for Gidsel, who hails from a small Danish city. “Mathias comes from a small membership that additionally values youth,” says Hanning. “It’s crucial that he feels comfy within the metropolis and on the membership.” His teammates within the Danish nationwide workforce additionally helped the handball participant discover his manner in Berlin.
Hans Lindbergh particularly performed an necessary function in guiding Giedsel to the Spree. “At that point – in 2016 – we had been in the precise place on the proper time with Hans,” says Hanning. Seven years in the past, the Foxes acquired the precise winger from bancrupt HSV Hamburg and in doing so put their first foothold within the Danish Foxes’ circle. Because Lindbergh acted as a form of mentor to Jacob Holm, who arrived two years later. Later, Andersson and Gidsel, who didn’t take part within the World Cup due to the beginning of their son, joined them.
Denmark’s momentum within the World Cup should even be taken into the “strongest league within the world”. While one or the opposite may nonetheless be rested for the European Cup sport in opposition to world champions HK Motor Zaporijshja, all Danes are wanting ahead to the essential league restart in opposition to Hamm. Hanning expects “optimistic energy for the workforce” from the Danes. The league leaders will want it within the coming months because the Foxes are the workforce to hunt. Chasers THW Kiel, Rhein-Neckar Löwen and SC Magdeburg await not distant.
Bob Hanning additionally ready phrases of reward for the German workforce: “You had been very assured and the fifth place within the world championship is nice information for our sport.” The DHB workforce secured fifth place with a 28-24 win over Norway on Sunday. . In the quarterfinals, coach Alfred Ghislason’s workforce misplaced to France, who later completed second within the World Cup.
“I acknowledge the brand new golden triangle within the nationwide workforce,” stated Hanning fortunately. This is about the most effective younger participant of the event Yuri Knorr (Rhein-Neckar Leuven), left again Julian Köster (VfL Gummersbach) and DHB captain Johannes Golla (SG Flensburg-Handewitt). “Maybe one thing good will occur with the followers becoming a member of us on the upcoming European Championships,” says Hanning. The European Handball Championship shall be held in Germany in January 2024. One of the venues is Berlin.