Handball European Championship: Fritz increases pressure on Handballers:”Top favourites are the Germans”.

The former world class goalkeeper Henning Fritz will increase his score before the start of the European Handball Championship (12th place). till 28. January) in Croatia put pressure on the German national team.

“My top favourite are the Germans. This is an extremely good team with a strong physical form, a high individual class and an unbelievable breadth of the squad,”said Fritz in an interview with Mannheimer Morgen.

As a decisive advantage over other favourites such as France, Croatia and Denmark, the 2007 World Champion is defensive:”No other nation can offer such a compact defence as the Germans can, in combination with the two outstanding goalkeepers, that’s really good”.

According to Fritz, national coach Christian Prokop’s rejection of Finn Lemke has no negative impact on the quality of the German team’s selection:”With the current squad, the national coach also has alternatives to cover which interpret their role in defence a little differently. And even without Lemke, Patrick Wiencek, Hendrik Pekeler and Julius Kühn are still three major defenders in the squad,”said the 43-year-old.