The Spanish team, current runner-up in Europe, will be put to the test in the coming months with four friendly matches at the highest level in which they will face the current world champion Denmark, Norway and on two occasions France, the current Olympic champion who has the azulgranas Dika Mem, Ludovic Fàbregas, Timothey N’Guessan and Melvyn Richardson.
Jordi Ribera’s men will travel to Denmark next Marchwhere they will meet on Saturday, March 19 at four in the afternoon at the Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning with the Danish team, in a repeat of the last European semifinals in Hungary and Slovakia in which Spain won by (29- 25) to the Nordic set.
One day later, on March 20, the Spanish team, bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, will face at the Ceres Arena in Aarhus at 1:30 p.m. with Norwayagainst which they fell 23-27 in the second phase of the recent European Championship.
Jordi Ribera, Spanish coach
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The next commitments for the Spaniards will come in April, when they will play a double friendly match with the French teamone of the great referents of universal handball for four decades now.
The Spanish team will travel to Paris, where they will face each other on April 14 at 9:05 p.m. at the Accor Arena with the ‘Bleus’, current Olympic champions after defeating Denmark in the final in Tokyo, who had knocked them out five years earlier in Rio de Janeiro.
Two days later, the team led by Guillaume Gille will return the visit on July 16 the Spanish team in a match that everything indicates will be played in Madrid in the absence of official confirmation.
The Hispanics achieved their fifth European medal in a row
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With the ticket already secured for the next World Cup in Poland and Sweden 2023, as well as the European Championship in Germany 2024 thanks to its second place in the European event (it lost the final against Norway with great controversy as the referees ‘eaten’ a very clear push from the Swedish Jim Gottfridsson on Joan Cañellas, Hispanics will play the EHF Euro Cup between October 2022 and April 2023 with three other posh opponents such as Germany, Denmark and the continental champion Sweden.
A demanding schedule that will allow Spain to prepare in the best possible way both the next World Cup event and the European Championship in 2024.