There are several handball nations that have participated in championships in recent years that are still quite a bit behind the very best in terms of quality. However, in almost all of these nations, there is one or two really exciting players to follow. Here’s a whole bunch of them!
It’s probably rare for people to look forward to matches between a major handball country and a smaller one. These games are hardly ever thrilling, and they often end with big victory margins for the larger handball nation.
But is there anything else to watch in these games? Why not exciting players? Nowadays, there are some really good and exciting players in nearly all handball nations at major championships – players worth following. And who wouldn’t have wanted to watch Andy Schmid play for Switzerland at the peak of his abilities?
Here are some of the players who stand out right now from the smaller handball nations:
Women
- Senegal: Soukeina Sagna
- Paraguay: Fatima Acuna
- Iceland: Perla Ruth Albertsdóttir
- Angola: Albertina Kassoma
- Japan: Natsuki Aizawa
- Ukraine: Tamara Smbatian
- DR Congo: Fanta Diagouraga
- Turkey: Asli Iskit
- Portugal: Beatriz Sousa
- Faroe Islands: Pernille Brandenborg
- Switzerland: Tabea Schmid
- Austria: Johanna Reichert
Men
- Switzerland: Manuel Zehnder
- Faroe Islands: Elias Ellefsen a Skipagötu & Óli Mittún
- Latvia: Dainis Kristopans
- Lithuania: Aidenas Malasinskas
- Austria: Constantin Möstl
- Netherlands: Luc Steins & Kay Smits
- Georgia: Giorgi Tskhovrebadze
- Italy: Domenico Ebner
- Algeria: Ayoub Abdi
- Tunisia: Mohamed Darmoul
- USA: Aboubakar Fofana
- Japan: Shuichi Yoshida
- Chile: Erwin & Emil Feuchtmann
- Cape Verde: Ivo Santos