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“The EHF will do
everything to
raise the popularity
of the game
and to promote
it in countries in
which it is not
yet as well
established as in
the major handball
nations”
Vision of EHF Vice President
Hans-Jürgen Hinrichs in 1992
to get to know and love the sport of handball.
The concrete description of the project
read as follows: “The objective being
pursued is to reach as many children and
their families through a large number of
events (e.g. game days, tournaments, festivals,
camps, etc.). To achieve the widest
possible publicity and media coverage for
the ‘minihandball venture’ it is planned to
get schools, clubs, municipalities, sponsors
and business people – as licensees – involved
in the organisation of these events.”
One of the first working groups set up by
the EHF met in Vienna on 28-29 August
1993 to organise this project. Its members
were: Rinck (FRA), Nilsson Green (SWE, on
behalf of the IHF), Guerrero (ESP), Hjorth
(DEN), Oppermann (GER), Garcia (POR),
Sollberger (SUI) and Helmut Höritsch as
the EHF administration’s responsible project
manager. The project involved the production
of brochures and advertising materials,
the shipment of more than 3500
mini-softballs and training for more than
300 coaches. It proved a major success and
was therefore repeated a number of times.
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