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Centropa Trophy <strong>2018</strong><br />
The third edition of this tournament dedicated<br />
to female teams U20 and younger is done and<br />
history. And it came out to be a good piece of<br />
history, a history of success. This time we hosted<br />
8 teams from 6 nations and three referee<br />
couples coming from Slovakia on short notice<br />
and making the event a 7-nations-tournament.<br />
With the support of the city of Vienna and the<br />
local district of Favoriten we made the Kurt-<br />
Kucera-hall a real stronghold of handball for<br />
three days. We had quite a number of high<br />
quality games with the participating teams<br />
rectifying their sounding names. And after all<br />
we had a climax in the extremely thrilling final<br />
match that was decided in the second round of<br />
the penalty shoot-out only.<br />
As the director of the tournament I want to underline<br />
the spirit of fair play and sportsmanship<br />
in all the matches and express my thanks<br />
to all the coaches and the referees who contributed<br />
the most to this fact. Also I owe a big<br />
hand to the table team solving the gigantic<br />
mission of noting 20 matches in less than three<br />
days in great style; a big hand to all the staff<br />
and the attendants of the sports hall.<br />
With the help of all our supporters, may it be<br />
companies, private people or political persons<br />
we will do the utmost to surpass the great tournament<br />
of this year. Let us cross fingers that<br />
in this case the embarrassing neglecting and<br />
ignorance by the big media and the handball<br />
federations we will achieve to overcome.<br />
Thank you all and see you in 2019<br />
Dr. Wolfgang Pollany, MSc<br />
Tournament director<br />
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