Marco and Simone Mengon, brothers from Trentino who play in the Bundesliga, are part of the backbone of a national team which, after the World Cup, aims to do well in the continental championship: “We are roommates and we talk, we give each other advice. We both love one-on-one, at speed”
Italian handball continues to grow and does so with the twins Simone and Marco Mengon. Exactly one year after participating in the World Cup, finishing in 16th place, after 28 years the Italian handball team returns to play a final phase of the European Championship (tournament in Sweden, Norway and Denmark with final on February 1st). Inserted in group F with Poland, Iceland and Hungary, the national team will make its debut tomorrow against Iceland (6pm) and for the occasion the technical director of the national team Bob Hanning has chosen 19 Italian players, 15 of whom play in foreign leagues. Among these Simone and Marco Mengon. Brothers, twins. Born in Trento, raised in Lavis (a small town near Trento), they took their first steps in handball, winning six Italian youth titles between 2014 and 2017. Having moved to France in 2017 with Montpellier, they now play in the German Bundesliga: Simone with Stuttgart, Marco with Potsdam. “With the national team we are riding a good wave of results between World Cups and European qualifiers – the two twins say in chorus -. Now this continental tournament, certainly much more difficult than the world championship tournament. Our first objective is to pass the first phase, then we’ll see”.