RRI Sports Club – Handball

At the end of this week handball lovers in Romania will find the teams that will be playing in the qualifying playoffs for the World Handball Championships of 2017. The Romanian side is part of the second preliminary group and will be up on its own turf, in Baia Mare, against the group’s leader, Austria. On Saturday, our handballers will be playing the Italian side in an away game. The group’s best handball side is qualified for the playoffs.

Florin Orban, 13.01.2016, 14:10

At the end of this week handball lovers in Romania will find the teams that will be playing in the qualifying playoffs for the World Handball Championships of 2017. The Romanian side is part of the second preliminary group and will be up on its own turf, in Baia Mare, against the group’s leader, Austria. On Saturday, our handballers will be playing the Italian side in an away game. The group’s best handball side is qualified for the playoffs.

Romanian women’s handball sides will be taking on their opponents in the European Cups this weekend. In the Champions League’s games that commenced at the end of last week, Romania’s champions CSM Bucharest lost the game they played away against the Macedonians from Vardar Skopje 22-21. CSM is currently ranking fourth in the group with five points. In the main group, HCM Baia Mare has secured a 31-28 home win against the French side Fleury Loiret. The result has pushed Baia Mare to the fifth position in the group’s ranking.

In the first round of the Cup Winner’s Cup eight finals, the Romanian side Municipal Craiova clinched a 30-29 home win against Mercator Ljubljana of Slovenia. The return game is due on Saturday. Romania had two sides in the EHF Cup’s eight finals. Last Sunday, HCM Roman obtained a 22-21 win on home turf against Corona Brasov. The two sides will be meeting for the return game in Brasov, central Romania, on Sunday.

Cristina Neagu, the best player in the World Championship held in Denmark in December has extended her contract with Buducnost Podgorica until 2017. We recall that with Cristina, the Montenegrin side won the Champions League a year ago. Last month Cristina was designated the world’s best handballer in 2015 through the vote of a 19-member jury and the votes of the fans on handball-planet.com. Next came Nora Mork and Heidi Loke of Norway.