The handball Euro is now a thing of the past. Place in the championship and the Champions League for the nine internationals (including three medalists) from PSG who returned from Hungary and the Czech Republic. Barely returned, the stars of the capital are already concentrated on the reception of Dunkirk, this Saturday (8 p.m.), in a Coubertin freed from the gauge of spectators.
The return to the fold took place gradually, as during a new school year. Luc Steins and Kamil Syprzak, 10th and 12th respectively with the Netherlands and Poland, were the first to rejoin the group at the start of the week. For his first participation in the Euro, the Dutchman was one of the revelations of the competition and thus appears in the standard team of the tournament, like Mikkel Hansen.
The other seven (Nikola Karabatic, Vincent Gérard, Benoît Kounkoud and Mathieu Grébille, called to strengthen the French team, 4th, at the end, the Danes Mikkel Hansen and Henrik Toft Hansen, bronze medalists, and finally the Spaniard Ferran Solé, finalist) benefited from an additional day of rest and returned on Wednesday late followingnoon. On the program: welcome by Thierry Omeyer, the general manager, and a health point with the club’s physiotherapist.
Seven games to play in February
The latter was able to see the state of fatigue of his troops “The Euro was also quite mentally trying, because of the somewhat particular respect for sanitary conditions in Hungary, we say behind the scenes. They constantly had a Damocles sword above their heads. “The eldest of the Karabatic (affected by the Covid, like Kounkoud, during the preparation course) and Vincent Gérard, in particular, were angry during the event. Solé, for his part, missed the half once morest Denmark and the final once morest Sweden for the same reason.
Today, all this little world is operational. The atmosphere is still just as good (without chambering!) when seven matches (5 in the league, 2 in the Champions League) await Raul Gonzalez’s players for the month of February alone. Nedim Remili, Luka Karabatic, and Elohim Prandi, the three Habs absent from the Euro, are still recovering. The first two are recovering from their injuries contracted on the floor. The former Nîmes, stabbed on New Year’s Eve, observes a specific rehabilitation program.
