Vardar Skopje, Metalurg Skopje and Meshkovo Brest will play on 41. handball tournament in Struga, Macedonia as a part of preparation for up coming season. All three clubs will participate in third season in SEHA league.

Total seven teams divided in two groups: Vardar, Ivry and Constanta in one, and Metalurg, Meshkov Brest, Versailles and Struga.

In first round, Vardar made big step close to finale, as actual SEHA runner up beat Romanian champion Constanta, 33-26.

Goalkeeper Zlatko Daskalovski save 20 balls and Russian internationals in Vardar, Alexey Rastvortsev and Timur Dibirov score seven and six goals respectively.  

Constanta leads 9-4 in 12 minutes, but then Daskalovski start his "show" and almost all Rastvortsev's shots were behind Romanian goalkeeper.

Meshkov Brest won against French Versailles, 34-19, and for Belarus team crucial will be second round versus Metalurg. Macedonian vice champion, have one day more to analyze rivals, as they won 30-14 versus Struga, but coach Lino Chervar count on younger players. Stars like Vugrinec, Stanic, Manaskov, Mirkulovski, Dimovski were on tribune.

 

Match timetable

August 14:

20,30 Vardar - Constanta

22,00 Meshkov Brest - Versailles

August 15:

18,45 Ivry - Constanta

20,30 Metalurg - Meshkov Brest

22,00 Struga - Versailles

August 16:

18,45 Vardar - Ivry

20,30 Metalurg - Versailles

22,00 Struga - Meshkov Brest

August 17:

18,00  Match for 5th place

19,30  Match for 3rd place

21,00 Finale

 

Previous winners in Struga:

Vardar 12

Pelister 11

Borac Banja Luka 4

Metaloplastika 4

TK Brend 3

Zeleznicar Nis 2

Metalurg 1

VV Tikvesh 1

ASKI Ankara 1,

Prishtina 1