Two games more, then the Foxes Berlin could be German handball champions for the first time. ARD expert Florian Naß explains in an interview what is important in the final sprint and why Mathias Gidsel is so significant for the team.
RBB | 24: Florian Naß, two game days still in the Handball Bundesliga And it comes to the Foxes Berlin or Magdeburg. If we get into heretically: What does the current leaders from Berlin not make it?
Florian Naß: Hardly anything. Except the fact that the last opponent is completely unpredictable. The Rhein-Neckar lions beat almost all top teams at home. They won against Kiel in their own hall, won against Melsungen. They are completely unpredictable. In addition: Actually, he can’t care who becomes a master. But see the master dancing in your own hall, you want to avoid that.
I say anyway: the foxes do it! But be careful of the last game.
ARD sports journalist Florian Naß
The foxes had rarely gained high in Stuttgart in previous years, came into play badly this time and in the end they still won with 15 goals. How many exclamation marks were that?
Of course, this shows what consistency and what willingness to will be in this troop. They are so clear, so fixed on the big goal – that is remarkable. The Stuttgart team who fight for relegation from the hall is actually completely unusual in the strong and balanced Bundesliga.
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Ex-national goalkeeper Silvio Heineevetter recently said in an interview with RBB | 24: “The team that Mathias Gidsel has is becoming a master”. Can you try to explain to a layperson why this Dane was obviously just rightly named world handball player twice?
Mathias Gidsel interprets handball completely newly reinterprets my terms. It has unpredictable movements and, above all, an unpredictable pace. I would like to know his fitness values. It must be incredible how this man trains. To do this, he conveys a joy in handball. And he does the others even better. He is not a egoist. But he has this pleasure in his own game, this positive obsession.
If you see him shuffling through the hall after the games, almost with a hanging shoulder, you would not even get to the fact that he is the measure of all handball things.
Such people would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. He is not that big – he is not a closet, no throwing machine. But a prime example of modern handball. With which dynamic he can create surprising situations! I’ve never seen such a handball player.
The foxes go without Worries about injury in the final sprint. At Magdeburg, playmaker Gisli Kristjansson may have been injured. Could that play a role or can they easily catch this for the two games?
You can already compensate for that. Mathias Gidsel’s failure would be much more difficult in the relation.
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Berlin has been close to it in recent years and has recently been third, third and second. Should it actually work this year with the title – what was the last bit that always was missing before?
I think you benefit from the balance of the league. There are no longer these one or two top teams. You can also allow yourself a slip. Then of course you need outstanding people, must also be spared the bad luck of injury. And you need mentality. The foxes are outstanding for me. This body language of the entire team! But Jaron Siewert’s coaching begins.
Most of the time you see him crouching on the field or talking to his players.
It is all about his speeches during the time -out. There is no emotionality, there is only clarity. Overall, it already fits a lot together with the foxes. Actually everything. It would be full to talk about it.
We have time …
I also think it’s great that an attack performance is rewarded. That you become a German champion with a strong offensive performance. Because that takes the audience. The way the foxes play handball is tearing people from the stools.
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The title would come in the 20th year of Bob Hanning at the Foxes. Mr. Handball, as it is also called, is rather small at 1.68 meters. But how big should the monument he deserved?
We talk a lot about Mathias Gidsel. Getting him was a masterpiece. To convince him – Hanning always said – was the merit of the conversations between Gidsel and Stefan Kretzschmar. But then this incredible structure and installation of the young players also comes. People like Tim Freihöfer, Nils Lichtlein or Lasse Ludwig. Bob Hanning has proven that. That you can – probably – become a German champion, maybe even win the Champions League without neglecting the integration of your young people. This is a masterpiece. To establish this youth work in Berlin to establish this super boy trainer, to promote him – that is the actual masterpiece, that is the great performance of Bob Hanning and exemplary for all clubs, for all handball Germany.
Thank you for the conversation.
The interview was led by Ilja Behnisch.
Sending: RBB24, 02.06.2025, 10 p.m.
