MADRID, 12 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Fraikin Granollers center back Ferran Castillo is the last player discarded by the Spanish handball coach, Jordi Ribera, who this Sunday offered the final squad list for the 2025 World Championship in Croatia, Denmark and Norway, which will be held on the 14th. from January to February 2.
The ‘Hispanos’, who on Saturday defeated Norway (33-31) to win the Spanish International Tournament (TIE) in the Ciutat de Castelló pavilion, leave the Castellón town this Sunday – where they have been for nearly two weeks – and They travel to Madrid.
In the Spanish capital they will enjoy a farewell event this Monday at the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) before flying to Oslo, the venue that hosts the Spanish team during the tournament. Spain is located in Group F of the Preliminary Round along with Chile – with whom they will debut on Thursday the 16th -, Japan and Sweden; three of those teams will qualify for the Main Round.
Thus, Ribera will take 18 players to the Norwegian capital, where Fraikin Granollers center back Ferran Castillo will no longer be there. The generational change has allowed young people like Petar Cikusa to enter the list, already a reserve for the Olympic Games; Victor Romero; Djordje Cikusa and Ian Barrufet, son of the legendary former Catalan goalkeeper. All of them are part of the 2004-2005 generation that was proclaimed world and European champion in the youth category and, last summer, also at the continental level in the junior category. Jan Gurri and goalkeeper Sergey Hernández are the other new additions
Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas, Alex and Dani Dujshebaev, Ian Tarrafeta, Imanol Garciandia, Agustín Casado, Kauldi Odriozola, Miguel Sánchez-Migallón, Daniel Fernández, Abel Serdio and Javier Rodríguez remain from the team that won the Olympic bronze. Regarding the initial list, Paris Saint-Germain winger Ferran Solé has joined to replace the Barça player Aleix Gómez, who has problems with his left shoulder.
–CALL FOR HISPANICS FOR THE WORLD CUP.
GOALKEEPER: Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas (Barça) and Sergey Hernández (SC Magdeburg).
CENTRAL: Ian Tarrafeta (Pays d’Aix UC) and Petar Cikusa (Barça).
RIGHT SIDE: Álex Dujshebaev (Industria Kielce), Imanol Garciandia (Pick Szeged) and Djordje Cikusa (Montpellier Handball).
LEFT SIDE: Jan Gurri (Sporting CP), Agustín Casado (Veszprém HC) and Daniel Dujshebaev (Industria Kielce).
FAR RIGHT: Kauldi Odriozola (HBC Nantes) and Ferran Solé (Paris Saint-Germain).
EXTREME LEFT: Miguel Sánchez-Migallón (SL Benfica), Daniel Fernández (TVB Stuttgart) and Ian Barrufet (MT Melsungen).
PIVOT: Abel Serdio (Orlen Wisla Plock), Víctor Romero (Fraikin Granollers) and Javier Rodríguez (Barça).