Paris - Three days after crushing Lithuania (37-20), the France team continues its qualifying campaign for Euro-2018 by moving a priori in range to Liège on Sunday to confront them Belgium.
On paper, the "Red Wolves" do not have the cutter head of the profile: the workforce is predominantly of players playing in the national championship and the team has never qualified to be a final phase a great competition.
But beware! In 1995, precisely in Liège, the "Barjots" fresh world champions in Iceland, had tripped over the carpet, falling 21-20.
A real annoyance, if not a humiliation for teammates Pascal Mahé, whose son, Kentin, will want to avoid disappointment even 21 years later.
"It was a different time, but my father told me that to show me that even world champions, a team could also board under a few months later," he told the half central Flensburg-Handewitt, author of 7 goals against Lithuania, on the website of the French handball Federation.
"Compared with the football, normally the best handball, even poor, can win. But when you take a team-high ..."
With the coaching duo Didier Dinart and Guillaume Gille, novices at this position but very experienced in selection, little chance that the Blues arrive in Belgium shrinking violet.
The second period against Lithuania Thursday (16-13, 21-7 in the first period against) showed that Thierry Omeyer and other Nikola Karabatic, left standing after the break, were still key players in the blue device.
The rookies Yannis Lenne (three goals) and Dika Mem (a) have them, enjoyed working to open their counters and show that they will likely have a card to play in the world championship, at home, in January, stated objective for the new Blues.
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