How should the fourth place of the German handball players at the home European Championships 2024 be assessed? National coach Alfred Gislason had to listen to criticism – including from Bob Hanning.
Handball national coach Alfred Gislason has clearly rejected Füchse managing director Bob Hanning’s criticism of the German national team’s performance.
“I don’t think too much of his assessment of our European Championship performance because he is not objective. He would very much like to force the deployment of some people out of his own interest,” the Icelander told “Sport-Bild” and added: “For me it is Bob is not a luminary in world handball. That’s why I would rather listen if the league’s top coaches commented on our performance.”
Handball European Championship 2024: Gislason considers the DHB squad to be “good and broadly positioned”
The German team took fourth place at the European Championships in their own country last week, which Hanning was critical of.
“The bottom line is four wins, four defeats and one draw. If you subtract the home advantage, there isn’t much left. With all due respect: celebrating a win against North Macedonia is legitimate. But in principle it’s like Bayern Munich’s footballers winning against Cottbus.” , the Berlin official and former vice president of the German Handball Association said in a column for the magazine.
Gislason doesn’t want to give his team “any grades”, but thinks the squad is “good and broadly positioned”. The DHB team lost at the European Championships against the big three France, Denmark and Sweden and in the insignificant main round game against Croatia.