2023-05-28 19:44:07
BarcelonaDefeats are always painful, but BM Fraikin Granollers and the numerous fans who accompanied the team to Flensburg (Germany) will return to Catalonia, home, with their heads held high. Playing in the final of the European Handball League was already a dream, almost an imaginable milestone at the start of the season for a club with a very modest budget compared to the other big entities of the competition. The icing on the cake would have been to lift the trophy in the final played this Sunday against Füchse Berlin, but the powerful German team has not been surprised by the Valais dream (36-31).
The set of Antonio Rama, which had been planted in the final four after overcoming almighty Flensburg in the quarter-finals and seeing off Goppingen in the semi-finals, they have been unable to do anything against Füchse’s potential. The Berliners, led by the successful scoring of Andersson (8 goals), began to distance themselves from the scoreboard in the last minutes of the first half. During the start of the game, Fraikin Granollers dealt with the German team one-on-one and even got ahead on the scoreboard with a two-goal lead. But when the Germans went up a gear, they did not suffer to overturn the scoreboard and the Catalan team saw their options run out.
The break was reached with a home advantage (16-12), a result that was not insurmountable but which marked the trend of the match. From there, Füchse Berlin was able to time the rest of the game without much suffering against a Fraikin Granollers who made up the score in the last minutes (36-31). With a team full of young people, guided by the veteran Antonio García and the drive of the home players, the Valais team knew that it was defying logic to win the final but not go out and enjoy it. That’s what they did, like the hundreds of supporters who went to Flensburg and with whom they hugged at the end of the match, mixing tears and smiles. They did not take home the gold, but the name of Granollers has once again shone in Europe.
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