The team of national coach Alfred Gislason will meet Switzerland on Friday (07.01.2022), in the last test match before the European Championship, there will be a duel with tournament favorites France on Sunday.
“These two internationals against Switzerland and France are very valuable to us”said Gislason: “We need the competition to develop our young team.”
Corona messes up plans
After Serbia’s cancellation, the DHB found a replacement within 24 hours and benefited from short-term bottlenecks with the new opponents. “We have had challenging hours behind us. We are grateful to have neighbors like Switzerland and France”said the DHB board chairman Mark Schober.
Switzerland had to cancel an EM preparatory tournament at home due to corona-related cancellations by Montenegro and Portugal, the French suddenly had no competitors after corona cases with their planned friendly opponent Egypt.