“This was a good fight,” said Lars Kooij with a smile, after the Dutch handball men had defeated North Macedonia in the second group match at the World Cup: 37-32. The thousands of passionate Macedonian fans found it difficult to swallow the loss and threw lighters and coins into the field, causing the Dutch players not to wait for the Man of the Match election (rightly to Luc Steins) and to leave the dressing room prematurely. Kooij: “You know that whistling, but all those objects, that’s not okay”
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The Netherlands has a good victory.
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