A good start, a strong defense plus the Cologne cauldron behind us – that’s Christian Schwarzer’s winning formula for Germany’s handball players in the European Championship semi-finals against Denmark.
A good start to the game this Friday evening (8:30 p.m. / ZDF and Dyn) is “very, very important” for self-confidence, said the 2007 world champion in the podcast “Enlightenments by Blacky Schwarzer”: “The longer we stick with it, the better “The atmosphere in the hall, the more the spectators support us and the higher the probability that we can win this game.”
However, Denmark has “so many good players who are almost impossible to eliminate,” said Schwarzer. That’s why the German team must “again provide our best coverage performance, with an outstanding goalkeeping performance.”
It’s also about “being variable in attack and getting the very stable Danish 6-0 defense moving.” The former pivot and DHB record goalscorer cited the Hungary game (35:28) as an example, saying that Germany “did very, very well”.
Schwarzer fondly remembers his prize for winning the World Cup – a mattress. “I don’t really remember anything about money,” said the 54-year-old, “but I still remembered the mattress well because I slept very, very well on it for years, until the year before last when we were up Have changed the box spring bed.”