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YOUTH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS “On the way to the top, the youth and junior championships were crucial to my development even if it was not always easy, eventually I was playing in the junior team parallel to being in the senior team” Domagoj Duvnjak 100
Anybody who wanted to gaze into the crystal ball of women’s handball was well placed if they were present at Rotterdam’s Topsportcentrum on 14 August 2011. In the middle of the Dutch summer, before the start of the actual season, teenagers were playing here for the crown of European handball, in the final of the Women’s 19 European Championship. Pitted against each other were Denmark, the country with the great handball tradition and a virtually inexhaustible pool of talents, and crass outsider Netherlands, where the sport of handball had time and again been confined to a marginal existence. On that day, however, this clash of cultures was all but invisible. Supported by 2,100 fanatic spectators, the Dutch hosts gave the Scandinavians a really hard time. Goalkeeper Tess Wester saved three of the favourites’ penalty throws and quite generally did a a great Job saving the ball the ball (and was celebrated as her team’s best player). The tournament’s top scorer, Lois Abbingh, scored nine goals. Angela Malestein as right wing and playmaker Estevana Polman even exhibited such a strong performance that they were even voted into the tournament’s All-star team. In the end, after a tough fight, the Netherlands were honourably defeated 27-29, but had gained some invaluable experiences in a match played at the highest level. They felt how close they had come to the big handball national Denmark. While they lost a final, they won great motivation for the future. Some four years later, the core of this team had a fantastic run that took it to the next final – the final of the Handball World Championship 2015 in Denmark. They lost again, though, this time against Norway. But the Netherlands had made it to the global top, and for good, as shortly thereafter the team also qualified, for the first time, for the Olympic handball tournament in Rio de Janeiro. And who knows, perhaps both these finals were only just a harbinger of the rise of Dutch handball at large. These Dutch teenagers, who used a youth tournament as a catapult lifting them to the top of world handball, are just one eminent example in the history of younger age category tournaments held under EHF auspices. For many of the stars, these tournaments were the first time they were exposed to an international atmosphere and got a sense of what it was like to compete with other excellent players of their generation.
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The vision of a united handball Eur
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THE STRUCTURE OF THE EHF: CONTINUIT
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