The Hungarian women’s handball team will also begin this year’s World Championships in Sweden on Thursday evening. We will watch a classic match at 8:30 pm, Paraguay is the opponent in Helsingborg. Without underestimating the strength of the South American continent – Brazil won the World Cup ten years ago – the only question in this match is goal difference. However, it may be decisive later, because according to the organization, they are not playing for ninth place, so it may depend on the goal difference, but with this ninth place, in the ideal case, you can actually go to the Olympic qualifiers.
According to the advertisement, 2-7. The position is an Olympic qualifier, but ninth place is valuable because it is difficult to imagine that hosts France and the Norwegians, who have already qualified for the European Championship, are not among the top eight, dropping the qualifying places.
However, let’s start from the fact that the Hungarian national team achieved its original goal and reached the top eight,
At the same time, he will be present in the Olympic qualifiers, even if we achieved double-digit positions in the previous World Cup finals: 11 (2015), 15 (2017), 14 (2019) and 10 (2021).
The recipe for the quarter-finals is as follows: after Paraguay, Cameroon must be beaten on Saturday, then Montenegro, third in the European Championship, but without its biggest aces. Then we have group leadership. In addition to host Sweden, Croats will come from the other group, possibly China. The Swedes will be fighting for a medal, and the most important thing for us is not to suffer a third defeat against Croatia, with whom we have the same skills. The opposition won the Euro 2020 and 2022 titles, because goalkeeper T. Pejevic, known from Szekesfehervar, had a good day and the team made it great.
You can already see in the draw that if the other branches are also taken into account, the Hungarian national team is in the best place. The Montenegrin team is based on Buducnost, one of the more modest teams in the BL series. In addition, Montenegro finished third at the European Championships last year, and already has Olympic qualifiers in that classification. Former Gior Jovanka Radišević is no longer playing for the national team, and it is possible that their biggest star, Ordina Jajokovic, will then be deployed – at best – in April due to a serious injury. Grbic, Čurović and Brnovic will still be on the field, but we cannot say that they will be partnered with individually better players than the Hungarians.
In addition to the already mentioned Pejevic, the Croats can count on the bombs of Kamila Mičević and the game of Katarina Ježić, as well as the fact that Valentina Blazevic moves her teammates well, and that she will also be a top scorer.
The Hungarian national team is also absent, but in goal, Peru and Zimmery are capable of providing extra performance, and both have already shown that during the season. Peru has good form, and the peculiarity of this sport is that every goalkeeping achievement is valued if it can be used to lead a fast and accurate attack. We know the liberating effect of two or three easy goals.
Hungarian frame:
- Goalkeepers: Blanca Budi Biro (FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria), Anna Bukowski (Practaker-VAC), Zsoufi Zimmeri (Motherson Mosunmagyarovar KC).
- Far right: Viktoria Gyuri Lukács (Gyuri Udi Eto KC), Alexandra Topfner (DVSC Schaeffler).
- Right-handed shooters: Anna Albeck (Mosunmagyarovar), Catherine Klugeber (FTC), Nicolette Papp (Buzau – Romania).
- Controllers: Kinga Debrecen-Kleveni (handball Moira Budaours), Simone Petra (FTC), Petra Vamos (Debrecen).
- Formations: Rica Bordas (FTC), Petra Fuzi Tuvezi (Debrecen), Noemi Pastor (Mosunmagyarovar).
- Pitchers: Greta Juhasz (Kisvarda Master Good SE), Xing Kotzora (FAC)
- Far left: Greta Marton (FTC), Nadine Zulusie-Schatzl (Gyor)
The Hungarian wingers, like the goalkeepers, are the best in the world, and we are good on both wings. Schatzl and Lukács are Champions League winners with Gyor and are used to intense situations, with Marton and Topfner also capable of strengthening the team.
Debrecen manager Petra Vamos has emerged as a key player at the Olympic Games, and now a lot depends on him, and now, in addition to Kinga Kleveni, Simon Petra is also able to ease the burden. Simon is 19 years old, the great promise of Freddy, and they don’t know him, it’s a perfect situation for him to explode.
In addition to Katrin Kluber, Anna Albeck will be the other right-handed pitcher, we can’t complain about that situation either, and Kotzura and Yuhas should make sure there is no shortage of pitchers as well. If they can add 3-4 goals to the team in an important period, midway through the second half, it could be a big step towards success. You can’t win a match without specific goals, Bassztor has a bigger role, because Bordas hasn’t played much.
The recipe for success will of course be defence, as the full-back must perform at a high level in defense as well.
So everyone knows the score and how to get into the top eight. You don’t even have to count on the defeat of Montenegro and Croatia, if defeat slips in front of them, the mini-table will come, without which no global competition has passed recently. But maybe now.
Ranking of group matches:
- November 30, 8:30 pm: Hungary – Paraguay (TV: Donna’s World)
- December 2, 8:30 pm: Hungary – Cameroon (Channel: M4 Sport)
- December 4, 8:30 pm: Hungary-Montenegro (Channel: M4 Sport)
