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As usual, January was reserved for international handball. The big sport event took part in Croatia, and for more than 2 weeks, handball players were the most popular faces in Zagreb, Split, Porec and Varazdin. Surprisingly, Spain ended up taking the gold medal. Even more surprisingly it came in the final against Sweden. Not...

It was a great ending to the tournament, despite the hosts Croatia were not taking part of it. Spain took the title of the European champion for the first time in their history. They defeated Sweden, who could still be very proud of their overall performance. France took the bronze by beating Denmark earlier in the day in Arena Zagreb.Spain started the final quite slow and Sweden was...

We had three exciting matches in Arena Zagreb today and each one proved to be better than another! Croatia defeated Czech Republic in the 5th place match, and later we found out that Spain and Sweden are going to compete for the title of the European champion.It is fair to say that it was not a match of the...

We now know all the passengers to the semi-final. Things were complicated in both rounds, as Denmark and France were the teams that were confident of going through.Group I (Zagreb): Serbia - Belarus 27:32 (11:16)Both teams did not have a chance to go through to the semi-finals, so the coaches had a chance to give some inexperienced players a go. Both teams achieved just a single win so...

Slovenia fully deserved their second victory of the tournament against Spain, and Czech Republic's goalkeeper Mrkva stopped a 7m shot from Dejan Manaskov to secure another victory for his team!Group II...

Two dominant performances saw France and Sweden prevail against Serbia and Belarus in dominant fashion, making things complicated for Croatia.Group I (Zagreb): Serbia - France 30:39 (12:19)A fast paced match which was a result of an early separation from the French. A high number of turnovers and a lot of shots from both sides, but France still scored 9 goals more than Serbia...

For the second day in a row, we saw two completely different matches. In the first match of the day in Group II in Varazdin, Denmark narrowly defeated Germany- 26:25. Hans Lindberg scored 9 and the main star Mikkel Hansen added 5 more which brought an important victory for Denmark.Group II (Varazdin): Macedonia - Spain 20:31 (6:15)The match was pretty much over after...

Today we saw two quite opposite matches in Arena Zagreb. France defeated Sweden in a game where only 40 goals were scored. Nikola Karabatic got sent off early on, but the French players were able to hold Sweden to only 17 goals. It ended 23:17, which means France now has 6 points in Group I.Group I (Zagreb): Croatia -...

After Serbia lost to Norway, and Croatia beat Belarus in the first day of the main round, matches continued on Friday. Germany narrowly beat Czech Republic, and Denmark defeated Slovenia.Group II (Varazdin): Slovenia - Denmark 28:31 (14:16)Denmark did almost everything right in this match. They knew it was not going to be an easy match against the motivated...

Serbia and Croatia kicked off the main round. Serbia faced Norway in the first match of Group I in Zagreb. The hosts played Belarus in the first out of three matches they will play in this round. All 5 SEHA countries are going to participate in this round, and some SEHA - Gazprom League players really stood out during...