World Cup in Germany : ice hockey the Sport is

It is the smell of the gym. The sweat stink of the effort, the memory of the fun of the game, the hatred beloved sport lessons at school, the squeaking of sneakers. The Look of the game with the Ball pushes long-lost images to the brain, arouses associations, feelings, inner swing – if a man remembers at the sports lessons. But do sports fans. In the sports teaching in the school, all the football want to play, if it goes in the Winter in the hall. Even if the teacher does not want to it is always. However, the game has size. Because the full 40 meters of surface to be exploited and not as in the Basketball or Volleyball in addition to broken down schlappten gym dividing curtains made of plastic lobe must pleasure at one-third of the area. Handball is huge. The counterpart to the football. In the hall.

if you want to Throw a small child a Ball, catches it and stops it with the foot or returned to him with a bat. The man wants to touch things, hold on. Each Shopping channel operates according to the principle. Barrel the goods that You want to sell, not kicked with the foot. Touch creates greed. Handball is a sport to Hold on to, to stick. This is us, this is our nature. This fascinates us at the Handball.

Handball-world Association wants to ban resin

of Course, modern football do not want to smell like a sports hall, not even to the sticky resin, which wants to ban the world Federation of the loved one. Because the tools the player glued to the floor, the nets dirty, and also, Yes, we have is 2019, harmful to health. But starting on Thursday at the world Championships in the Arena at the Ostbahnhof, it will smell less, and the hall is huge and the stage is large: Because in the great professional sports can say, apart from the football, a championship really that is the world's best players to the title?

For the pros in Basketball or ice hockey professional League in North America is generally more important than the national selection team. Dirk Nowitzki has for the national team, if he could, but the title in the professional League, the NBA was for the German basketball star that career goal, not the world Cup.

The basketball has no player who has earned so much money as a Nowitzki earned and deserves. You don't know the Handball in North America quasi-even, and that's why there's no professional League for hand-ball millionaires. The handball players are to the touch, not caught up by mega-salaries. And the Handball-Bundesliga is not liable also the flaw that as in Basketball or ice hockey all over the world play stars of their sports far away in North America and the European leagues are relegated to second-class citizens. Therefore, we can celebrate the football League as "the strongest League in the world". We are not the idiots like the English who invented football and Rugby, and today in these sports to play along – after all, football is the German sports of the big ball sports.

boundless joy. Dagur Sigurdsson will be celebrated for the European title.Photo: Reuters/Stanislav Ron,

football , invented by the Berlin gymnastics teacher Carl Schelenz at the beginning of the 20th century. Century, was mainly a Sport for women. The 750,000 members of the German Handball-Federal-of-date. 4250 clubs there are, and in the case of young people, the proportion of the female game is almost at 45 percent, according to the football no sports. And even if there are older, less and less football speed players, the League of women of many followers. Eight of the 14 teams to play at home in front of Backdrops with a four-digit number of viewers. It happens to come to a game time more than 2000 visitors. The average attendance in the football League of the women is per game of 200 visitors over the football. Handball has a lot of backing in the German sports, in both sexes.

Germany is the mother country of the hand balls

but, but, But. Outside of its huge community of basketball has made it difficult. He is not in his mother country, the coolest of all sports (which he is probably alone in Iceland). Itself among the sports behind the football or for a long time is ice hockey, only the number two or three in the audience's favor, because in the big arenas in the Republic of sports with schickerem Touch and North America-Flair is better to arrive. And in the cage in Neukölln or in the Park, the Kids soccer, Basketball, table tennis, Trendy play. A never asks a man: Hey, did You fancy a game of Handball?’

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Handball-world Cup in Germany By Helene Fischer up to the living room: DHB But we still have the Ball often in the Hand, on the beach, in the Park, on the garage advertises in cities

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travel. So absurd, the games may be, it evokes images of youth. Catch the Ball, touch it. This goes back deep, that's why we love football. And we must, therefore, like the national team in Handball more than any other national teams (of course, football on the outside is not), even if we like football.
As said by a wise man in 2016 after winning the European championship? "Football doesn't matter to me, but that Germany will be world champion in Handball, this is not the same to me." So something only for the Handball, even in people who don't like the gym smell.