Last Sunday Mathias Gidsel Denmark led to the World Cup title- now the Bundesliga is already waiting for the tournamentMVP And all the other stars that are active in the HBL. It starts with the appearance of the leader MT Melsungen.
The fact that the German champion of the most occupied handball league in the world comes from a 14,000-inhabitant town in the Schwalm-Eder district of Northern Hesse has long since come to the field of the likelihood. The Melsung gymnastics community won from the first 17 season games 15, the table leads confidently against Frisch on Göppingen with only four minus points before the restart on Saturday (February 8, 2025, 6.30 p.m.). The direct pursuers Füchse Berlin, THW Kiel and TSV Hannover-Burgdorf already have eight minus points, SC Magdeburg is seven, but has also played three games less. The exciting question will be how the mini break after the World Cup in Norway, Denmark and Croatia now affects the Bundesliga. It should be clear: she has not made the title win of MT Melsungen more less likely.
Melsungen’s players all out early
At least this applies in the event that at the end of the season, the crowds of HBL professionals will be the decisive factor. In total, the Bundesliga presented around 100 players at the World Cup. The SG Flensburg-Handewitt was the highest team with twelve participants, seven of them at world champion Denmark alone. Kiel provided ten professionals for the three -week tournament, Magdeburg and Gummersbach follow with seven.
Six players were appointed by the MT Melsungen, but after the quarter -finals there was no one at the start: the Portuguese Alexandre Cavalcanti had had to leave the tournament prematurely because of back problems, Adam Morwaski was already out with Poland in the preliminary round. The World Cup also ended for Ian Barrufet (Spain), Adrian Sipos (Hungary), Elvar örn Jonsson (Iceland) before the medals.
The German right winger Timo Kastening initially only got manageable operations from national coach Alfred Gislason. In the quarter -finals against Portugal (30:31 after extension), the Melsunger then sat on the bench and was only intended as a backup for the seven meters. But Lukas Zerbe (plays on Saturday, 8.30 p.m., with Kiel against Magdeburg, live ticker at Sportschau.de) acted flawlessly, so Kastening stayed outside.
Superstar Gidsel prefers to play through
How the World Cup superstar and leading the HBL goal shooter list coped with the tournament will be shown on Sunday. At 6 p.m., the Foxes Berlin with Mathias Gidsel received the 1st VfL Potsdam in the derby. Gidsel had large play shares at the World Cup in all nine games of the Danes, overall he came up with an average time of around 54 minutes.
Even during the World Cup, the discussion came up in Denmark’s media why National coach Nikolaj Jacobsen Gidsel does not give much more breaks. Even in the meaningless games, the back room magician hardly even sat on the bench.
Grgic, light and fisherman with catching up to do
But Jacobsen reacted quite angry to the fat headlines that criticized him for this. “If it goes to Mathias himself, he would have always loved to play through completely”said the coach with a red -red face. “He’s always angry with me when he replaces him.” After the final, Gidsel also confirmed this at the Sportschau microphone: “I actually want to be on the pitch every minute.”
With the German players, the reunion with their employers can be viewed completely individually. For example, the Youngster Marko Grgic (21, on Sunday at 7 p.m. with Eisenach against Lemgo), Nils Lichtlein (22, with the foxes against Potsdam) or Justus Fischer (22, with Hanover on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. against Leipzig) will burn on it To prove that national coach Gislason has wrongly gave them so little trust at the World Cup.
Puzzle about Uscins’ form
In the Fischer team, the German World Cup Toptor hunter Renars uscins also plays, who lost its shape against the end of the tournament and seemed in a similar way to in the league in November and December. How he has now coped with the time in Denmark and Norway will also be decisive for the question of whether Hannover-Burgdorf can intervene again in the title fight.
Whether after the World Cup a break would generally be particularly useful for the frequent players, National team manager Benjamin Chatton answered the sports show as: “There is no automatism, every club has to regulate that with every player in individual cases. Of course you have professionals who have to switch off or take a breath after such a powerful time. But there are also those who prefer to get up again immediately want the plate. “
“Nice change” to the hard Club training
The Hanoverian Marian Michalczik, which was nominated at the end of the first World Cup week, brought in an interesting aspect in Denmark, which may also put a little relativized the strain on the tournament players: “I am totally happy to be here with the national team. It is an honor – and of course a nice change to the tough training session, especially with the warriors.”