The men’s national handball team is ready for the match with Georgia. At 5:30 p.m., the representative group welcomes the former Soviet country’s counterpart in “Tassos Kambouris” of Chalkida in the premiere of the qualifiers and wants to take the first step towards qualifying for the final phase of the 2026 European Championship.
The match will be broadcast live by ERT3, while public entry will be free.
Greece will again invest in their homogeneity and strong home ground, where they have recorded eight wins in their last nine games since October 2021, playing in Heraklion, Chalkida and Kozani.
In particular, in the Kanitho-Chalkidas closed match, the National Team has defeated Bosnia and Montenegro (World Cup 2023 qualifiers), the Netherlands and Belgium (Euro 2024 qualifiers) and has just one defeat in the details against Croatia.
Georgia is a familiar opponent for Greece, as the two teams met in two friendlies in Thessaloniki in January 2023, with the national team winning 34-32 and 26-24.
Top Georgian players are Gubersbach’s right winger Tskovrebatze, Romanian Turda’s playmaker, Kbilashvili, and Spanish Henil’s pivot, Arsenasvili, with the last two having also been through Greece.
Nikos Liapis emphasized that: “We are starting a new effort. We have prepared very well for these two games, starting with the match against Georgia. It will be a special game. We must look, as always, strong at home. We have confidence in our team and between us we have “built” this in recent years and we will face them with seriousness and determination”.
Dimitris Panagiotou added: “We know that these two teams are up to us and that these are very important matches for the development of the group and the qualification. Our team is primarily looking at the match against Georgia, which is at our home. We have the enthusiasm but also the discipline to manage this game.
Our strength is that we are a real team, united and united. We are waiting for the people to help us and give us the impetus”.
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