At F4 in Cologne four Slovenes

The bands of Nantes and Füchse Berlin were joined by Barcelona and Magdeburg in the final tournament of the Champions League for Handball players, which will be held on June 14 and 15 in Cologne. The defenders of the title from Catalonia eliminated Pick Szeged with a total of 56:54, and Magdeburg defeated Veszprem after a dramatic outcome in the quarterfinals.

Four Slovenes will perform in the final tournament. The colors of Nantes, which advanced against Sporting with a total of 60:57, represent Matthew Gaber and Deadlineand Barcelona members are Blaž Janc and Domen Makuc. The draw of the semi -final couples will be on Friday, May 2.

Barcelona, ​​who, with twelve titles of the Champions League record holder, won the first match in Hungary with three goals difference and lost by 29:30 in front of home spectators. It was also dramatic in Veszprem, where the home team had a good ten minutes before the end of the end of four goals in Germany, and in the end the guests won 28:27. The winning hit for Magdeburg, European Championship 2022/2023, scored Gisli Thorgeir Kristjansson a few seconds before the time expires.

Gasper Margučwho has been a member of Veszprema for more than a decade, has left the parquet in the bowed head, as the team, which was the best in the group work, will not be the F4 participant for the third year in a row. Janc and Makuc were more satisfied. The latter scored five goals and had three passes, Janc two, and Barcelona will play in the final tournament for the seventh consecutive time. In the last four, she has won first place three times.

Already on Wednesday, Nantes and Füchse secured the city in Cologne. The Berliners beat Aalborg for the second time Alex Vlach And for the second time in the club’s history, they will play on F4. In 2012, they had to acknowledge the superiority of Koebenhagen in the third place.

On the other hand, the French Nantes will be the third time on the F4 participant after performing in the 2017/18 and 2020/21 seasons. At the first appearance, Montpellier’s superiority was recognized in the French finals, and in the second attempt they also lost their compatriots in the third place, namely the band Paris Saint-Germain.

Nantes celebrated both at home and away, and both Slovenian players Gaber and Ovniček, who had just returned after the injury, were left without a goal.