2018 European Championship - France

[mikh]

Here are the drawing pots for Qualification Phase 2 (April 21, 12h30, Paris):
Pot 1: Norway, Netherlands, Romania, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Montenegro
Pot 2: Russia, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Czech Republic, Croatia
Pot 3: Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Austria, Belarus, Turkey, Macedonia
Pot 4: Italy, Iceland, Lithuania, Portugal, Switzerland, Winner Q 1 Gr. A, Winner Q 1 Gr. B

And here are the groups of Qualification Phase 1 (one tournament, home right for Faroe I. and Kosovo):
Group A: Finland, Faroe Islands, Greece
Group B: Israel, Kosovo, Georgia

Source: http://eurohandball.com/article/28228

[Doru Delavale]

I do not understand why Montenegro is in first rank (box) and Russia in second rank(box) ?

[Bo$ko]

I do not understand why Montenegro is in first rank (box) and Russia in second rank(box) ?

Easy to understand :
MNE : 2012 - Champion, 2014 - 4th , 2016 - 13th place
RUS : 2012 - 6th, 2014 - 14th , 2016 - 7th place

[Doru Delavale]

yes but WC and OG ?.... for last 2 - 3 years...

[Bo$ko]

yes but WC and OG ?.... for last 2 - 3 years...

Since this is EC ... WC or OG results does NOT count...

[Flash]

Women's EHF EURO 2018 Qualification Phase 2 Draw

[John]

Great qualification group for Montenegro... i like it very much.

[vlad_impaler]

Like always, we get the worst. AND NORWAY THE EASIEST. Strangely that this time we didn't get Norway after we kicked their ass, they got poorest seed number 2 and Romania will face hardest opponent from pot 2.

[Raven]

Like always, we get the worst. AND NORWAY THE EASIEST. Strangely that this time we didn't get Norway after we kicked their ass, they got poorest seed number 2 and Romania will face hardest opponent from pot 2.

Barry , stfu. U always talk way to much with useless comments. We will do just fine , just stop flaming ffs.

[vlad_impaler]

Let me show you one more thing.





These draws are just strange and always favouring "somebody".

[Bo$ko]

Great draw for MNE... Adžić knows to prepare the team for POL and SVK, and we should win the group again.

[swarthofole]

at least we will see Russia

[Dofer]

Israel won yesterday against Georgia 31-27, in the first qualification stage. You can watch the replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0W8uqNJWiQ (first half), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=800AVDAshgg (second half). Probably next games will be streamed in the same channel.

Today, 18:00 cet: Kosovo - Georgia.
Tomorrow, 17:00 cet: Kosovo - Israel.

[Doru Delavale]

Israel won yesterday against Georgia 31-27, in the first qualification stage. You can watch the replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0W8uqNJWiQ (first half), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=800AVDAshgg (second half). Probably next games will be streamed in the same channel.

Today, 18:00 cet: Kosovo - Georgia.
Tomorrow, 17:00 cet: Kosovo - Israel.

How can Romania play (and listen the kossovar anthem) with this team of a state (Kossovo ) which did not recognized ?

[Dofer]

Well, Kosovo under-19 team even played against Serbia two years ago (without anthems), so everything is possible.

Anyway, Kosovo won today 30-19 against Georgia, so everything is ready for the crucial game in Sunday, 17:00cet: Kosovo - Israel. A draw will be enough for Kosovo. There will probably be a live transmission here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Uy4y ... cYLrLNNrxQ.

In the other qualification group, Faroe Islands beat Greece 25-24, and all they need now is a draw against Finland.

[Silviu]

^ The Romanian men's team has already played against Kosovo, but their anthem was not sung before the game nor their flag displayed during the game in the hall.

@Dofer: good luck to Israel!

[Doru Delavale]

Well, Kosovo under-19 team even played against Serbia two years ago (without anthems), so everything is possible.

Anyway, Kosovo won today 30-19 against Georgia, so everything is ready for the crucial game in Sunday, 17:00cet: Kosovo - Israel. A draw will be enough for Kosovo. There will probably be a live transmission here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Uy4y ... cYLrLNNrxQ.

In the other qualification group, Faroe Islands beat Greece 25-24, and all they need now is a draw against Finland.

I wish Israel a good win !!!

[Silviu]

So Faroe Islands and Kosovo advance to Qualification Phase 2, with Faroe in Group 3 and Kosovo in Group 7. Congratulations to both teams and good luck!

[Dofer]

Thanks guys for your kind words. Unfortunately, it was a very disappointing game by Israel. After a 12-12 at half time, we forgot there is a second half, and Kosovo easily won 32-25. Out star Amit Izak was terrible today, and even got red card after three two minutes suspensions.

Israel's main problem was Kosovo's back players. They are simply too strong and too tall for us. Leonora Demaj was fantastic with 16 goals at 100%.

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Usually it's Israeli men who like to stare at blond girls. These time it was Israeli handball players who stared at the blond girl and couldn't stop her.

Too bad there were only a few hundred spectators in the hall, but the Kosovo team totally deserved to win this game.

[Wbk]

Leonora Demaj was fantastic with 16 goals at 100%.

She was indeed great, but surely did not score everything (even EHF's webpage is wrong with these 100% ) and also missed some shots. Seems like the Kosovian statkeepers just don't work in details (for now)

[Dofer]

I should have suspected something is wrong in the stats. According to the official statistics, almost all players in the match had 100% scoring record Maybe statkeepers in Kosovo are simply good people, who don't want to remind the players that they missed some goals.

[HB9]

http://www.ehftv.com/de/livestream-cale ... /september

I don't think a single womens national game was streamed in June - now they added almost every (?) game in September for Euro 2018. Obviously some changes might still happen until then, but it' looks more promosing this time around.

[HB9]

http://www.ehftv.com/de/livestream-calendar/2017/september

I don't think a single womens national game was streamed in June - now they added almost every (?) game in September for Euro 2018. Obviously some changes might still happen until then, but it' looks more promosing this time around.

All 28 games will be streamed live : http://www.eurohandball.com/article/029252/

[Gojira]

http://www.ehftv.com/de/livestream-calendar/2017/september

I don't think a single womens national game was streamed in June - now they added almost every (?) game in September for Euro 2018. Obviously some changes might still happen until then, but it' looks more promosing this time around.

All 28 games will be streamed live : http://www.eurohandball.com/article/029252/

Maybe EHF did finally realize that you can't make handball popular if you don't let people watch it

[tavy oltchim]

Squads of the teams for the next games on 27.09.2017

Norway: https://www.handball.no/regioner/nhf-se ... valkamper/
Germany: https://dhb.de/detailansicht/datum/2017 ... ation.html
France: http://www.handlfh.org/actu/edf-a-19-joueuses-retenues/
Poland: http://zprp.pl/archiwa/53457