EHF Team Week preview: 7 SEHA countries in action
New national team duties are in front of some SEHA countries. As a part of the EHF Team week, SEHA stars will face clashes in their national team jersey.
Team Croatia will have a lot of well-known SEHA faces. Matej Asanin, Zlatko Horvat, David Mandic, Marin Sipic, Kristijan Beciri, Matej Hrstic and Luka Mrakovcic from PPD Zagreb will join Lino Cervar's squad in the upcoming matches. Nexe stars Moreno Car, Fran Mileta and Marin Jelinic will also join them. Croatia will play against Germany on Wednesday, 23rd of October and Saturday, 26th of October.
Serbia will play their first match against Austria on Friday, 25th of October. The second match is scheduled for Sunday, 27th of October when they will meet with Slovenia. SEHA players in Serbian team are Vladimir Cupara from Telekom Veszprem, Todor Jandric from Metaloplastika, Zivan Pesic from Nexe, Strahinja Stankovic and Jovica Nikolic from Vojvodina and Nemanja Obradovic from Meshkov Brest.
Team Belarus will play two matches against Lithuania. The first one is scheduled for Saturday, 26th of October and the second match will be played Sunday, 27th of October. Meshkov Brest players that will represent Belarus will be Ivan Matskevich, Andrei Yurynok, Maxim Baranau, Mikita Vailupau, Viachaslau Shumak and Artsiom Kulak. Barys Puhkouski from Motor Zaporozhye will also join the squad.
Ukraine will also play two matches this week. They will meet with Tunisia on Thursday, 24th of October and Saturday, 26th of October. Motor Zaporozhye's players that will be a part of the squad are Gennadiy Komok, Pavlo Gurkovsky, Zakhar Denysov, Vladyslav Dontsov, Dmytro Doroshchuk, Stanislav Zhukov, Artem Kozakevych, Iurii Kubatko, and Vladyslav Parovinchak. Olexandr Shevelev and Vladyslav Ostroushko from Eurofam Rabotnik will be the part of Ukrainian team as well.
Russia will participate at the friendly tournament in Argentina. Besides Russia, Argentina, Spain and Poland will also take part in that tournament. On Wednesday, 23rd of October they will play against the hosts, the next day they will meet with Spain while on Friday, 25 of October Russia will play against Poland. Victor Kireev and Igor Soroka from Motor Zaporozhye will be a part of the squad as well as Vardar's players Timur Dibirov, Sergei Gorbok, Pavel Atman, Sergey Gorpishin, Gleb Kalarash and Danil Shishkarev. Meshkov Brest player Alexander Shkurinskiy will also be a part of the team.
Team North Macedonia will start the EHF Team Week with matches against Turkey. After that, they will meet with Georgia on Friday, 25th of October and Saturday, 26th of October. The players that will join the squad are Vardar's stars Marko Kizic, Dimitar Dimitrioski and Dejan Kukulovski. Well-known faces from Eurofarm Rabotnik, Bojan Madzovski and Martin Velkovski will also be a part the team.
Hungary will spend the EHF team week in training camp. The players that will be a part of these preparations are Telekom Veszprem's stars Marton Szekely and Mate Lekai.