To be honest, we should have addressed this subject less than a week ago: PSG had to make its recovery against Szeged in the Champions League, and it would have already been opportune to underline the busy schedule which awaits the Parisian handball players.
But the Covid-19 passed through the Hungarian ranks and forced the meeting to be postponed.
And will help to densify a little more an already very complicated agenda on the side of the club of the capital, which officially resumes this Wednesday with the European reception of the Germans in Flensburg (8:45 p.m.).
We will summarize the case for you: PSG will have to play a Lidl Starligue, the French Championship, increased from 14 to 16 clubs this summer to avoid two descents that are too penalizing economically, to finish the 2019-2020 Champions League with a scheduled Final Four December 28-29, and compete in the 2020-2021 edition which begins for him on Wednesday.
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The Parisian tricolor internationals will have to follow up with the World Cup in Egypt in January then an Olympic qualifying tournament in March before perhaps the Tokyo Olympics in the summer.
"We are sure we will have problems, the players will be in great demand between the club and their national team, admits the Spanish coach of PSG, Raul Gonzalez.
We will have to be careful when they tell us "It
hurts here, it hurts there
".
"
Two competitions canceled by the League
Paris has changed its program to adapt.
After resuming physical training in June, the club gave its men a long break in July, when the other formations resumed.
If the Parisian recruits arrived on July 27, the rest of the group did not resume sessions until August 3.
“This cut was needed to properly recharge the batteries,” said PSG captain and French international Luka Karabatic.
The confinement was complicated to live in Paris… ”
"We let the players regenerate," said manager Bruno Martini.
The moments of rest will be short, if not nonexistent, this year.
Conscious of schedule on the verge of implosion, the National Handball League (LNH) has removed the Champions Trophy and the League Cup.
The federation has reduced the Coupe de France to a match that will oppose the first to the second of the first leg of the championship ... if they are not yet engaged in the Champions League at the time of the final.
“It would have been almost impossible to hope to complete the season if these decisions had not been made.
And even with that, it will be physically complicated, Karabatic slips.
Now, it's hard to project yourself after what you've been through.
We are talking about the sequence between the Final Four in December and the World Cup, but that seems so far away… ”
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The NHL is already thinking about it.
On Monday, she voted “plan B for men's handball”.
To put it simply: a text, which anticipates the risk of matches postponed by health conditions, which provides that the result of the championship will be approved if each first division team plays 25 of its 30 matches.
And is already looking forward to a possible phase of the playoffs if the first phase is too weighed down by the Covid-19.
