TORREVIEJA, April 13. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish women’s handball team will play this Sunday the last of the three games of the Handball Pre-Olympic Championship that will be held at the ‘Tavi y Carmona’ Sports Palace in Torrevieja, in an end to the celebration that the Warriors want to be complete in a duel between two teams that are already classified, with clear superiority, for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The objective is achieved. Homework is done. But ’10’, closing an immaculate Pre-Olympic with a full party, involves beating the Netherlands that on paper could be superior and that are right now close to the world’s top.
The Guerreras, if they play at the level shown in the first Pre-Olympic match against the Czech Republic (21-31), have a chance of defeating the Dutch, against whom they lost the 2019 World Cup final and who, in more recent matches, also They have been put in trouble.
Perhaps there is no longer any desire for revenge in the Warriors group, but there is a desire to send a clear message a few months before the Paris Games. Both teams have qualified for the Olympic event in Torrevieja, it is at stake to know who will do so as leader and to know, at least, one of the rivals that they could avoid in Paris.
But this Torrevieja duel could be repeated in the French capital. The Spanish coach, Ambros Martín, will experience his first Games and, methodical and hard-working as he is, he will surely take this match seriously, with the intention of learning, improving, winning if possible and hitting the table. of European and world handball.
Czech Republic and Argentina, both already eliminated, will open the day at 3:30 p.m. And, at 6:00 p.m., this interesting Spain-Netherlands will begin, despite the jackpot no longer being at stake because both teams have already been Olympic since Friday. A duel that will be lost, as a precaution after several blows received against Argentina, the center Kaba Gassama.
DATASHEET.
–EQUIPMENT.
SPAIN: Mercedes Castellanos (p) and Darly Zoqbi (p); Martha Lopez, Sylvia Arderius, Jennifer Gutierrez, Maitane Echeverria, Lara Gonzalez, Sole Lopez, Alicia Fernandez, Lysa Tchaptchet, Paula Arcos, Shandy Beard, Mireya Gonzalez, Danila So Delgado and Maria O’Mullony.
PAÍSES BAJOS: Duijndam (p) y Ten Holte (p); Van der Heijden, Abbingh, Nüsser, van Wetering, Haggerty, Molenaar, Dulfer, Smits, Sprengers, Malestein, Duijndam, Ten Holte, Van der Vliet, Hendrikse, Housheer y Polman.
–PAVILLION: ‘Tavi y Carmona’ Sports Palace in Torrevieja.