Handball: Hanning warns handballers:”It’s not far to overestimate yourself”.

Top official Bob Hanning warns the German defending champions of the European Handball Championship in Croatia (12. till 28. Self-confidence is fine and good, but it’s not that far from there to overestimate yourself,”said the vice-president of the German Handball Federation (Deutscher Handballbund, DHB) in an interview with the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.

Hybris is “extremely dangerous, as we saw with our failure in the 2017 World Cup round of sixteen against Qatar in Paris,”said Hanning (49),”We wanted to get more out of the pot than we had deposited. We were just too sure that was fatal.”

At the European Championships, the German team and their new national coach Christian Prokop will first meet Montenegro (13th place in the European Championship). January). Slovenia (15th place in the preliminary round are also on the other side. January) and Macedonia (17. January).

Hanning is optimistic about the tournament:”We are able to beat any team in Europe. We have to be self-confidently upholding this claim – but knowing that we are not alone at the top of the world.”