Handball

because divegrass crushes every opposition

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Handball, like basketball, is in that weird middle ground between the innate scoring of tennis (every play ends in a point) and the momentous scoring of football and rugby (goals are rare so they feel special). In handball, almost every time a team becomes the attacker it scores. Almost but not every time so what makes the difference isn't your ability to score but your proficiency at preventing the other team for scoring. Since good defending is fundamentally harder to showcase (there isn't a defensive moment, just a phase, apart), the winning act is more diffuse thus the spectacle less appealing to the average Joe.

Same here, but you still get brits talking about other sports on Yea Forums

We do, but this is an Anglo forum and Anglos are notoriously shit at it. Had this been an Estern European+Scandi board handball would be pretty widely discussed.

rigged and flawed """""""sport"""""""

As an East German and therefore Eastern European, I agree.
More Anglos = more shit sports = less handball

Infinitely more exciting to watch that football, it's like 60 minutes of excitement. A great sport, but I lack any connection to a particular team and therefore usually only watch the international tournaments in which Germany is a bit like Pandora's box: either winning or coming close to winning... or fucking up as much as 1 team can fuck up

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This is very ignorant of yurop.
I have the fortune to follow all kind of Sports all year round.

My m8s only watch Soccer. Sad!

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>It isn't really the type of sports that's exciting to watch, a bit like volleyball.
biggest problem I have with it, it's the same set play over and over again
maybe reduce players by one and increasing steps and possession to 5 would open it up more

I liked it in gym class, but there were walls and wall passing allowed

handball become trash with the empty net rule

Isn't infinity only a theory though? They don't even though if it exsists so how can that sport be infinitely more exciting than football?

Are you trying to deny that divegrass is not far above the rest in term of popularity? Most people only follow this and shit on the rest. Just try having non-nba basketball threads, you'll barely get more than a dozen posts, and yet it's the 2nd most popular collective sport in Europe. It only (barely) exists during international tournaments, and that's about it. Most people don't even know that the WC will be held in a few weeks.

says qatar
i'm still mad btw

Handball is cool but tense as fuck

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Handball is the second most popular sport here. I fucking hate it tho, it's slow as fuck, alot of luck plays in, and refballing is so easy

>Seems pretty popular in Europe.
And that's why no one talks about it.

Literally basketball is shit in Portugal.

for some reason I said "mostly because of NBA"

Do you worship Greek BVLL basketball players too?

I personally don't, and I have no idea if portuguese basketball fans do. I don't follow the sport at all.

Because France dominates it.

can't wait for tv to sub ANT instead of GRE on their live scoreboard inserts

not that much, >we only won 1 title in the last 5 years

I go to almost all my teams games, never even played it, ama

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quick rundown on the rules?

all contact sports ain't got shit on handball, it's fucking violent and vicious

If you're a sideways passing merchant, then boy have I got a sport for you.

Manlets on the wings. 190cm+ in the middle. Sideways passing and then you try to penetrate the wall and throw a ball which the keeper who is in comfy clothes saves with his balls 9/10 times.

It's my second favorite international sport that I never see in America. After Aussie Rules.

You throw the ball into the opponent's goal.
You can't cross a special zone in front of the goal, but you can throw the ball while you're jumping above it
you must dribble to advance the ball, but it's nowhere near as relevant as in bsaketball, in handball the ball moves mainly through passes
it's not a full contact sport like rugby or hockey, but it's still seriously physical, probably the most physical of all the collective sports that are not full fledged contact sports
you can use blocks as in basketball
6vs6 + goalkeepers, unlimited players switchs
there's also an extremely meme rule for "shot clock" violation, but without shot clock, which is a very easy target to whine about refball

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Excuse me, Pierre?

I saw somewhere that because of the Olympic games in Los Angeles in 2028 the USA are starting to invest in handball now so they have a competitive team when the time comes.

I also saw something related to them getting invited to the world cup because handball federations would obviously love for the USA to be good at the sport.

I just wonder when will the Greek NT be a full 12 Anteto brothers team. Last time I checked, you were already at 4 of them.

nope, we're coming bucko! european champions under 20 and one of those kids plays in the USA college basketball league

We need pacey Ngubus just like you do.

Greece has literally the Goat, a bunch of NBA starters, two of the most important and historical european teams, some of the best players in Europe, and already 2 euros and 1 silver in mundobasket.

>european champions under 20
division B

I want to get into it but I'm this country it's just a gym class activity
What league is good?

just give it some time

>because handball federations would obviously love for the USA to be good at the sport.
A lot of federations would love this (typically: rugby), but it's a massive mistake. Just look at what is happening for the basketball WC in a few week: all the European/Australian/Canadian NBA players are refusing to play and droping out of the NT under the pressure of their franchises, because, guess what, when you pay your players 20 or 25 fucking millions per year, you don't want them to play for someone else. And the players don't want to risk a 100 millions contract over an internationnal tournament. It's even worse in ice hockey (NHL players are often joining internationnal tournaments in the middle of the event after the franchise has been eliminated from the palyoffs... that is, when they join at all). And I don't even talk about baseball.
RIght now, handball have 1 tournament per year, and even 2 fucking tournaments during Olympics years, and they litterally stop the national league during the season for like 1 month to host a world cup. Now imagine if an US handball league paying Hansen or Karabatic 20 millions/year would be born, do you really think they would allow their players to go to that tournament? No fucking way. It would also kill the European leagues just like the NBA is bleeding dry the European leagues.

However, it will never happen, obviously. I've never seen a sport that has no root in a country suddenly becoming big in said country. Even the FIFA, the most powerful league in the world, never managed to make divegrass relevant in the USA after like 50 years of efforts. No way the handball federation could do it.

The Junior World Cup is being played in my town, pretty based user

based galego

It's shite. Have a look on youtube. Don't be fooled by highlight videos. Watch 5 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay

>defending team parks the bus in front of their goal
>attacking team passes back and forward waiting for a chance to shoot
>find a little space and lash it at the goal
>repeat x100

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Germany and France
Spain used to be good, but their league collapsed after 2008 and never recovered.
The rest is just "one team" leagues.Those "one teams" can be actually very good at European level, though.

because it's only relevant during international tournaments, no one cares about club handball

Giannis is going to play for us, Mahrez.

Well, for now. Koufos won't, too.
Here's the current list of major absentees who explicitely droped out:

>Australia
Ryan Broekhoff
Dante Exum
Thon Maker
Ben Simmons

>Brazil
Nene Hilario
Scott Machado
Raul Neto

>Canada
Tristan Thompson
Andrew Wiggins

>Dominican Republic
Al Horford

>France
Fabien Causeur
Joffrey Lauvergne

>Germany
Isaiah Hartenstein

>Greece
Kosta Koufos

>Iran
Arsalan Kazemi

>Lithuania
Arturas Gudaitis
Donatas Motiejunas

>New Zealand
Steven Adams

>Philippines
Jayson Castro

>Poland
Marcin Gortat

>Puerto Rico
Jose Barea

>Russia
Dmitry Khvostov
Timofey Mozgov

>Serbia
Nikola Kalinic
Nemanja Nedovic

>Spain
Alex Abrines
Jose Calderon
Pau Gasol
Serge Ibaka
Nikola Mirotic
Sergio Rodriguez

>Turkey
Enes Kanter

>USA
Bradley Beal
Jimmy Butler
Steph Curry
Anthony Davis
DeMar DeRozan
Kevin Durant
Paul George
Eric Gordon
James Harden
Tobias Harris
Kyrie Irving
LeBron James
Kawhi Leonard
Damian Lillard
Kevin Love
CJ McCollum
Klay Thompson
Zion Williamson

LNH seems legit

But there isnt a league like the NBA in handball, certanly not in North America.

They skip the World Cup because winning the NBA is basically like winning the world cup + you get paid. In handball the World Cup is the biggest trophy you can get so you can't really miss it if you are a top player

That’s like saying you only won one world cup in the last 5 years

basket ball for white peoples

there's 1 tournament every year in handball, and 2 during olympics years
winning 1 tournament since 2015 means in fact winning only 1 tournament out of 5, which is quite weak when you know that at some point during the 2010's >we were double Olympics - double World Cup - Euro holders

>But there isnt a league like the NBA in handball, certanly not in North America.

Well, indeed, which is why I used the conditionnal: there's no such league in NA. My point being that it's not a good idea to wish for one, when you see what those supermassive leagues do to the international tournaments, that are a very important part of the sport landscape in Europe.

>pass left to right like Xavi, just with your hands
>your 1,95cm 200kg guy gets the ball
>he jumps 2cms from the ground and throws the ball at the goal
I don't think this semen slurping sport is for me

because it is OUR sport, now gtfo retard

And there are many gays in Europe

either watch bundesliga, because it's the most exciting one out of national leagues, or champions league, because it's actually the best.
i'm pretty sure ehftv.com is not regionlocked in america, so that's the best place to watch

This. It's a great sport to watch, really spectacular and all but it's too stressful for my heart.
I mean when you have a close score game, which is quite often, it's 1h of constant stress. I have to limit myself to the NT now.

it's tiki taka

Europe is the gay capital of the world, dude.

can't believe we are losing to Portugal in u20

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Even if you defend well, the attacking team gets the ball back 90% of the time.

That, plus too easy to score are my biggest problems with handball. Its pretty fun to play though

we're a handball nation now

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