First All-Star game, League : As it goes after the football world Cup more

On Sunday, to a late hour all went together in a steak house to eat, I can understand that the evening was for all the justified disappointment harmonious. Germany's Handball would have seen national players like them to a different appointment: those at the awards ceremony in the Danish city of Herning. As the three medal winners of the world Cup – entered in chronological order: Denmark, Norway and France – shortly before eight o'clock local time in succession the improvised stage, were employed by the German player to declare their 25:26-defeat in the match for third place.

"We have brought us with their own stupidity to the medal," said goalkeeper Andreas Wolff comparatively sober. Others had to fight more with your emotions: Fabian Wiede of the foxes Berlin managed as a single from the DHB-Team, the leap into the All-Star Team of the tournament, and wept big tears of disappointment. Patrick Wiencek, the first defender in the Team and with his relentless, emotional, and thrilling style of play the German's face at this world Cup, did the same. "We would like to have stood on the podium," said national coach Christian Prokop.

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so it was perhaps good that the national team players went on the evening of the missed Chance, again, of their ways. On Sunday they travelled with the Bus to Hamburg and from there to their Bundesliga; Only in the case of captain Uwe Gensheimer, the goal was not very clear. The left winger of Paris Saint Germain before returning to the Rhein-Neckar Löwen. Apart from a short break between Christmas and new year's eve, granted by national coach Christian Prokop of its professionals, had spent the team's five weeks with each other. Now you have to first rest, at least for a few days.

The Bundesliga club are already exercising since mid-January, albeit with a very manageable cadres. Velimir Petkovic, for example, the coach of Füchse Berlin, had to stop eight players from five Nations for the world Cup in the best Handball League in the world are not uncommon. Petkovic has, in principle, no Problem with that, especially since one of the eight, the Dane Hans Lindberg, will return with a gold medal in the Luggage to Berlin. "Everyone wants to play for his country, I was never otherwise," says Petkovic, "therefore, I am pleased with all my guys."

Video 28.01.2019, 09:49 Uhr01:05 Min.Bitter end of a great world Cup: handball players mourn Bronze

Not-so-consensus is for the most Bundesliga coach against the next mandatory appointment in which the national players must appear: On Friday, they contest the annual All-Star game against a selection of international League players. Normally, the game will be held this year in Stuttgart, and a better carnival event, where all Parties have to be party. Sky transfers the encounter to the free-to-air sports news channel in the hope that the football Hype in the past few weeks to maintain. If that works, you may doubt at least the following: The Bundesliga is a one-time conference broadcast on 7. To see February, still only in the Pay-TV. ARD and ZDF will show the next round of national competitions in April, when the semi-finals in the DHB-pending Cup.

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After all, until then, countries games, the next on the ninth day of March in Düsseldorf, Germany and Switzerland. All of the DHB believes itself to be well positioned for the tasks of the next weeks and months. Federal coach Prokop said: "We competed a few weeks ago, to make our sport more popular. The has managed the team great.“