Live blog: Remaining teams to get Women's EHF EURO underway
Day 2 of the Women's EHF EURO 2024 will see the rest of the teams start their campaigns, including co-hosts Switzerland in Basel. As ever, the live blog will bring you coverage throughout the day, including news, reviews, videos and pictures of all the action.
I hope that many children are sitting at the stands and watching the games and think, hey, this is a cool sport. I want us to inspire young girls and players to start playing handball. It can help the national team to have more players later that can play on a high level, and I think this is still one of the main differences between Switzerland and other countries.
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We had some high-scoring games yesterday - will today be the same? The average number of goals per match on Thursday was 27.6!
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Scandinavian handball is among the best in the world and there are lots of Scandinavian coaches at the Women's EHF EURO 2024. Among them is Henrik Signell, who recently took over as head coach for the Netherlands after leading South Korea to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. He's now putting his mark on the Dutch team although, as Dione Housheer told us earlier in the week, the women in orange will still have their own style when they face Iceland tonight.
It is a Dutch-Scandinavian mix. Through the years we created our own Dutch style, so I think we still have this, and of course Scandinavian handball is really good. With his ideas and experience he has, he also brings this to the team, but I think we have a good basic in the national team, and he just adds many details and experience he has from different teams before, this a good combination.
We have talked about our goals for the competition and we agreed it is important we just put (up a) good fight. To be able to play against any team. We know we have a difficult group, but as we have come all this way we can try and see how far we can go. Maybe get a draw or win a game. We are aware it's going to be hard, but we will never give up.
