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teaching resources, says Höritsch. The EHF
CAN also serves as a documentation centre
which carefully archives development
and educational programmes. At the same
time, the EHF CAN also addresses the future
of the game and technical support
for the coaching process as well as referee
education, including game administration
(goal line proof, instant replay). A concrete
example of this work were the field tests in
the 2015-16 season, carried out with Fivers
players at the Wien-Margareten sports
hall. The object of these tests was “measuring
the game”: small chips attached to
the handball players’ bodies were used
to capture the players’ position data, distances
run, speeds and height of jumps.
To put it briefly: the game was practically
broken down into its components by the
computer.
This project opened up completely new
possibilities for presenting the sport of
handball to the public, as it provides broadcasting
TV stations with facts and figures to
illustrate the fine points of handball in the
VELUX EHF Champions League, for example.
But this is only one side of the coin. The
other side is the new options that the data
collected offer in the context of training science.
Academics, coaches, engineers, data
specialists and TV experts have yet to find
out, however, how the data recorded may
actually produce benefits for the game in
the future.
This is still going to take some time, but
is another concrete example of how proactively
the EHF CAN is working for the
future of handball. No matter at which
level, whether in teaching, in science, in economics
or in recruiting new members: the
development of handball is never complete;
the socio-aesthetic aspects of our team
sport are of great significance as a contribution
to society. The EHF CAN‘s mission
should therefore always be “to serve the
sport and its people”.
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