Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the semi-final of the 2023 men’s handball world championship, between Sweden and France.
Quoi ? For the fourteenth time in its history – and the fifth in a row – the French team has invited itself to the last four of a World Cup. If the Blues are only two steps away from a seventh crown, six years after their last coronation, at home, they will have a lot to do on Friday against the Swedes. The reigning Olympic champions have come up against the Scandinavians, in the semi-finals, in two of the last three competitions: at the 2021 World Cup and at Euro 2022. The Guillaume Gille men will also have to deal with the some 20,000 Swedish supporters who will push their team.
Where ? A la Tele2 Arena de Stockholm.
When ? Friday, January 27, at 9 p.m.
On which channels? TF1 et BeIN Sports 1.
Qui live ? Hortense Leblanc and Aude Lasjaunias, live from the Arena d’Austerlitz; Jérôme Porier, in the Stockholm stands.
Sweden : Albin Lagergren, Andreas Palicka (g.), Daniel Pettersson, Eric Johansson, Felix Claar, Fredric Pettersson, Hampus Wanne, Jim Gottfridsson, Jonathan Carlsbogard, Linus Persson, Lucas Pellas, Lukas Sandell, Max Darj, Mikael Appelgren (g.), Niclas Ekberg, Olle Forsell Schefvert, Oscar Bergendahl, Tobias Thulin (g.).
Coach: Glenn Solberg.
France : Charles Bolzinger (g), Remi Desbonnet (g), Vincent Gerard (g), Kentin Mahe, Nedim Remili, Thibaud Briet, Nikola Karabatic, Romain Lagarde, Elohim Prandi, Dika Mem, Melvyn Richardson, Ludovic Fabregas, Luke Karabatic , Nicolas Tournat, Matthew Grebille, Dylan Nahi, Yanis Lenne, Valentin Porte.
Coach: Guillaume Gilles.
What we probably won’t talk about? Rabbit Amami, a gardener who sows seeds
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