The women’s national team of Serbia started with the final preparations for the World Championship, which will be held from 1 to 17 December in Germany. Until the first match in Leipzig with Cameroon, it was less than two weeks left, and selector Ljubomir Obradovic presented the plan and program until the departure to Germany at a press conference held in the premises of the Handball Federation of Serbia in Tošin Bunar:
– On Tuesday and Wednesday we have two friendly matches with the Slovakians. On Sunday and Monday we are waiting for two games with Crnogorca, and we will see if we will play the fifth match with male cadet or pioneer selection. We want to get closer to the girls with the rhythm of the two-match competition system, day break, two matches, day breaks, or one match and day break. It’s too short, this is a bit of training, but it’s not a question for me or you. It’s been a while for girls to recover and prepare. This is a world view, not a local competition – Obradovic said and added:
Ambitions are high. It’s basic that nobody hurts, that the girls who came here are going to recover. Then we could talk more about it. We have delays that return us to the calendar issue. European Cups are also played on Sunday, so the national team that plays in the Hungarian clubs loses for a day or two with a national team. Why are not these matches played on Friday? Andree Lekic will be notified of the injury later. Jovana Stoiljkovic will not practice on Monday because of a hives injury, Sladjan Pop Lazic had a leaf injury, Sanja Damnjanovic was kneeling, but she is in a training process. Health of girls is in the first place. We will be looking to distribute the minutes so that they are maximally exploited, that is, to extract a very demanding competition such as SP.
Rivals in the group come from different handball schools …
The Netherlands and Germany are from one, the Koreans play differently, and China, respectively, Cameroon. There are many things to get ready to go ready. It’s hard to talk about the result. Nobody will hear the voice of the coach and player. Handball is a required sport. The girls congratulated volleyball gold, for which they were trained for five months. Until that changes, we can not speak anything precisely. We understand that we can not play because of other sports in August and September, but maybe we can play in October. And basketball players have demanding leagues, so they all play until the summer, and they have two months of preparations with national teams. We will have a situation to judge judges from the world list, and we know what is ahead of us. We have a host in the group, and the judge’s organization considered it to play a little more free game. I translate it to let them do what they want, and we do not. Remember the men’s World Cup 2007 that the Germans won as hosts. There is this fear, but our desire, quality, sport intelligence are at a high level and the girls will be ready to tactically respond to each opponent. We have a situation that four experienced players have come back to us, but we have not had them once again in training. The most important thing is to make a good result in the group, and I would like to avoid Russia that is the best in crossing. To play for the eighth finals, and we are not going home at the beginning of the knockout phase.
