The Maison du Handball, in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), is used to hosting all types of cracks. But if he has seen a bunch of Olympic, world or European champions pass, the lair of the French handball teams has never hosted a Ballon d'Or. An "odd" now fixed. Thursday, the 37-year-old Brazilian Kaka, elected best football player on the planet in 2007, spent the day at the Maison du Handball in Créteil as part of a sports management training course organized by UEFA.
"I want to come back to football one day but I want to be ready for that," Kaka told AFP. This program gives me a chance to be for my next challenge. Adding that his compatriot sporting director of PSG "Leonardo gives him a lot of advice for his after career", he did not just floor.
⚽ Back in pictures on the #UEFA Managers seminar organized this Thursday at #MaisonduHandball (2/2)
➡ The trainees were able to learn handball under the leadership of Olivier KRUMBHOLZ pic.twitter.com/OGnhNYrtLp
Alongside some forty players and ex-players involved in this professional retraining program, the ex-playmaker of AC Milan and his famous promo "friends" like Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda, Julio Cesar, Andreï Archavine or Kim Källström, were, at their request, entitled to an introduction to handball at the end of the day.
Present in the premises, it is Olivier Krumbholz in person, the coach of the French women's team, the reigning European champion, who agreed to take care of it at short notice. After an explanatory speech by the coach and a match of fifteen minutes, the natural came back at a gallop, Kaka, Drogba and the others having, as initially planned, completed their day of seminar with an hour of futsal.
⚽ Back in pictures on the #UEFA Managers seminar organized this Thursday at #MaisonduHandball (1/2)
➡ The opportunity for former professional players including Didier DROGBA, Florent MALOUDA and KAKA to discover the installations of the FFHandball pic.twitter.com/9kootbMANA
"It was a really nice experience," said Olivier Krumbholz. We see that they are collective sports players, they occupy the space well. Afterwards, the most difficult for them was to switch from the footballer shot to that of the handball player, less natural in body language. "
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After having given them some rudiments and having invited them "to be careful in the engagements", the coach also took the whistle to arbitrate the debates and discover the talent of some. "The best is undoubtedly Didier Drogba," laughs Krumbholz. He left everyone else far behind. He is gifted, I even think he could have been a handball player. "
