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Handball World Cup: why we should no longer nickname the Blues, "the Experts"

2021-01-28T15:59:00.740Z


ANALYSIS - By reaching the last four of the World Cup in Egypt, where they will challenge Sweden this Friday (5.30 p.m.), the Blues have definitely turned the page of their glorious elders.


Don't call them Experts anymore.

It hardly makes sense anymore.

As Valentin Porte explained very clearly before the victorious quarter-final against Hungary (35-32 after extra time).

“It is probably time to move on.

This CSI era was extraordinary, but today there aren't many players who are still there.

And then I think that this nickname thing didn't interest the players too much when they were dominating and today it interests us even less.

In any case, we, the players, have moved on.

I'm not going to say that they no longer exist because that would be too much, but CSI was before.

We're just rebuilding something, without a nickname and with humility. ”

The Euro 2020 fiasco and the Dinart psychodrama

From this golden period for French handball, started with a first Olympic coronation in Beijing in 2008 and continued by another in London four years later - without forgetting of course the four world titles (2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017)

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Source: lefigaro

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