Handball World Cup: Portugal’s strength-much more than Costa-Costa

Francisco Costa, 19 years old, and the three-year-old Martim Costa currently stand for the handball height of the Portuguese. But Germany’s quarterfinal opponents on Wednesday evening (8:30 p.m., live in the first, in the stream and in the live ticker at Sportschau.de) has much more to offer. The sports show gives an overview.

Of course, in the strengths of the large World Cup surprise, you cannot pass the two top stars from Sporting Lisbon. Francisco “Kiko” Costa is currently considered one of the hottest stocks in his age group in world handball: it is quick, tricky, technically brilliant and powerful. With 48 fired balls in the course of the World Cup, the brilliant left -handed scored 36 goals, and also proved an excellent overview for its secondary people with 15 assists.

Martim Costa has a slightly worse quota from the left back space than his younger brother, he needed 52 attempts for 33 goals. But it is also 15 templates.

Salvador Salvador already at 27 World Cup assists

Almost as many assists alone as the two Costas has Salvador Martinho Rocha Nogueira Salvador, namely 27. In the case of the handball scene, it is only called Salvador Salvador for the sake of simplicity – Bundestrainer Alfred Gislason also refers to him as one “World -class player.”

The physically extremely robust Rüclaum machine defends mercilessly in the inner block, initiates many speed counterfeits and has a super eye for the circuit runners. Portugal coach Paulo Pereira celebrates him like this: “We can summarize our team in Salvador, there is everything we need: a big heart, game intelligence, fight to the end. He is like our team.”

Luis Frade plays at Barca on the circle

One of the most popular allusions of Salvador Salvador is Luis Frade. The beefy circular runner from FC Barcelona is also one of the key players of the Portuguese, he blocks the paths with extreme robustness and was directly involved in his five World Cup missions on 21 goals.

If a break needs a break, Victor Iturizza brilliantly represents him. The circuit runner from FC Porto impresses with a remarkable effectiveness in the end, he has sunk 18 out of 21 litters – and has already hugged the ball seven times.

Rui Silva determines the pace

Rui Silva has taken over again responsibility for the statics of the entire Protuguese game since the actual director Miguel Martins was surprisingly closed because of a dubious about a year old doping case – which the IHF made public at the start of the World Cup.

Middle man Rui Silva determines the pace significantly, has collected 18 goal participations, but his weak point is already 15 ball losses.

Torwart duo can grow beyond itself

The Portuguese are now very compensated for again in the goalkeeper position. Gustavo Capdeville from Benfica is 45 parades and a hold of 32 percent. Exactly the same cut with a little less operational time and Weníger parades (31) has Diogo Marques from FC Porto.

Both Portugal keepers are a bit behind their German colleagues in the statistics, but similar to Andreas Wolff and David Späth, they can also explode completely at any time and carry the whole team and fans away.