The French handball team faces Qatar on Tuesday for its first match of the 2025 World Handball Championship. The coach, Guillaume Gille, guest of Club Info on Sunday, is reassuring.
Published on 12/01/2025 21:55
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“I can’t see myself telling you that we were going to try to qualify for the main round, when obviously we are convinced of the potential of our group”estimates Sunday January 12 Guillaume Gilles, the coach of the French handball team, a great witness to Club Info de franceinfo. The Blues will face Qatar on Tuesday January 14 for their first group match at the World Championship, which takes place in Croatia.
“We are fully focused on preparing for this world championship which will start very quickly and for which we, of course, have a lot of ambitions”assures the coach, who admits to having a spirit of revenge after France’s defeat in the quarter-finals at the Paris Games. “As a competitor, it’s certain that when you get tripped up, it generates a lot of frustration.”
This world championship, for Guillaume Gille and his players, is the opportunity “to show something other than our performance at the Games which left us with a huge taste of unfinished business.” Enough to make the coach say that the team has “a state of mind which seems to be very positive to approach this new competition”.
Concerning the renewal of the workforce, after the departures of several figures in French handball, including Nikola Karabatic in particular, Guillaume Gille is delighted, even“They leave a big void and it’s logical despite everything.” “Today, the dads of the group have left, it’s time for the young people, this new generation which is growing up and which also has a thirst for success, a thirst for responsibility.”
