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Handball returns five months later

The official handball season starts this Friday with the Catalan derby Barcelona-Fraikin Granollers, who are playing the Super Cup
of
Catalonia (9:00 p.m., in Sant Joan Despí). It is the first competition match that has been played in Spain since March 8, when the final of the Copa del Rey in Madrid with a Blaugrana victory. Since then, handball Spanish has been paralyzed.


Blaugrana reinforcements poker

Barça will show off its four new players, Langaro, Frade, Makuc and Janc, who replace the losses of Víctor Tomàs, Andersson and Duarte

The Super Cup of Catalonia, followed by the Asobal Super Cup on August 29, they suppose the starting gun to the official season, which will be affected again by the crisis coronavirus. The games, for the moment, are played at door closed, without audience.



For Barcelona and Fraikin Granollers it will be a good touchstone to fine-tune their equipment before the imminent start of the Asobal League, he September 2, and of the Champions, in the Blaugrana case, the 16 next month.


Respect for the rival

“Granollers have changed important people, but I’m sure they will maintain the same philosophy, defend hard, run, and have good players in attack”, says Xavi Pascual

The four reinforcements will make their debut at Barça: the Brazilian side Haniel Langaro, the Portuguese pivot Luis Frade and the slovenians Domen Makuc and Blaz janc. “My idea is that everyone participates,” she commented. Xavi Pascual, who faces the first game in five and a half months.

Presentation of Langaro, Frade, Makuc and Janc from Barça handball (fcbarcelona.cat)




“We arrived with great enthusiasm because we haven’t played for a long time. It is all unknown. We know that it is a title, that the Granollers he is in a good moment, he has changed important people, but he will surely maintain the same philosophy: he will defend hard with 6: 0, he will run, he has good players in attack and young kids with a lot of future ”, said the Blaugrana coach.




Four new faces in Granollers

Fraikin has supplied the 6 casualties with 4 reinforcements, Chema Márquez, Esteban Salinas, Oriol Rey and Antonio García, and relying on its extensive quarry

For him Fraikin Granollers, the duel against Barça allows him to measure the reconstruction process that he must undertake each summer by the march of his best values, such as Adrià
Figueras e Ian Tarrafeta. The Vallesano club has covered the 6 casualties it gave with 4 reinforcements: Chema Marquez, Esteban
Salinas, the blaugrana expivote Oriol
Rey, and he again returned Antonio
Garcia. You will also trust the youth of your endless quarry.

According to the Fraikin coach, Antonio Rama, “They have started (training) less than before, but their quality is quite unsurpassed.” His aspiration, in this phase of filming, is to minimize the theoretical Blaugrana superiority. In the last confrontation, in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey, Barça overwhelmed by 42-27.


Avoid disaster

“We will try to compete, we would like to have the maximum number of minutes competed”, hopes Antonio Rama, coach of Fraikin Granollers

“We already know that playing a title in a game against Barça is always very complicated. We will fight the game, we will try to compete, and that physically it is not a determining factor to endure from you to you. What we would like the most is to have the maximum number of minutes competed in the final. They have new players and they have to coordinate and adapt to the team, just like us “, said the Galician coach of Granollers.




Female final

KH-7 Granollers and Handball Sant Vicenç will play the Women’s Super Cup at 19.00, also in Sant Joan Despí

The party, organized by the Catalan Handball Federation, will be held in the Municipal pavilion Salvador Gimeno of Sant Joan Despí (21.00, by Esport3). Before the men’s final, the women’s (19.00, Esport3) will be played between the KH-7 BM Granollers, of the Division of Honor, and the Handball Sant Vicenç Bar Mi Casa, best classified Catalan in the Women’s Silver Honor Division. In both cases, the coronavirus crisis has forced the semifinals to be suppressed and the final to be played directly.

“I would like to highlight the good work that the Catalan Federation with the organization. President, Jaume Fort, has been working hard so that a Super Cup can be played with the maximum guarantees, with the two teams prepared and as covered as possible ”, recognized Xavi Pascual to the organizers.



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