Hah. I absolutely loves the response of Americans during the olympics when they watched handball. It was this beautiful mix of sheer confusion, admiration and of course ‘its a girl sport’.
Basically it’s like basketballs cousin. You can take three steps, then you need to dribble or pass. You cannot step inside the goal box. You can tackle much more than in basketball though. If you look at the Euros and World Cups it bordering on wrestling at times. Diving is highly frowned upon in the men’s game - don’t watch women’s anymore so can’t commentate there.
Oh and there’s a keeper. You only get to wear a crotch protector and then you do your best to stop the ball coming in at 100km+ meters away from your face.
I can only speak for Denmark, but during the time of Anja Andersen in the 90’s the women’s team was much more popular than the male team. They were essentially like the Harlem Globetrotters. Anja was the Messi or MIchael Jordan of the team with an attitude that could rival any MMA fighter.
There’s also free throws. Mikkel Hansen did this beauty to decide the game: https://youtu.be/eZiVWN7y46M
Standing still, he threw it at the goal with 130KM an hour.
Hah. I absolutely loves the response of Americans during the olympics when they watched handball. It was this beautiful mix of sheer confusion, admiration and of course ‘its a girl sport’.
Basically it’s like basketballs cousin. You can take three steps, then you need to dribble or pass. You cannot step inside the goal box. You can tackle much more than in basketball though. If you look at the Euros and World Cups it bordering on wrestling at times. Diving is highly frowned upon in the men’s game - don’t watch women’s anymore so can’t commentate there.
Oh and there’s a keeper. You only get to wear a crotch protector and then you do your best to stop the ball coming in at 100km+ meters away from your face.
I can only speak for Denmark, but during the time of Anja Andersen in the 90’s the women’s team was much more popular than the male team. They were essentially like the Harlem Globetrotters. Anja was the Messi or MIchael Jordan of the team with an attitude that could rival any MMA fighter.
There’s also free throws. Mikkel Hansen did this beauty to decide the game: https://youtu.be/eZiVWN7y46M
Standing still, he threw it at the goal with 130KM an hour.
Hah. I absolutely loves the response of Americans during the olympics when they watched handball. It was this beautiful mix of sheer confusion, admiration and of course ‘its a girl sport’.
Basically it’s like basketballs cousin. You can take three steps, then you need to dribble or pass. You cannot step inside the goal box. You can tackle much more than in basketball though. If you look at the Euros and World Cups it bordering on wrestling at times. Diving is highly frowned upon in the men’s game - don’t watch women’s anymore so can’t commentate there.
Oh and there’s a keeper. You only get to wear a crotch protector and then you do your best to stop the ball coming in at 100km+ meters away from your face.
I can only speak for Denmark, but during the time of Anja Andersen in the 90’s the women’s team was much more popular than the male team. They were essentially like the Harlem Globetrotters. Anja was the Messi or MIchael Jordan of the team with an attitude that could rival any MMA fighter.
There’s also free throws. Mikkel Hansen did this beauty to decide the game: https://youtu.be/eZiVWN7y46M
Standing still, he threw it at the goal with 130KM an hour.
coming in at 100km+ meters away
Does not compute