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Handball World Cup: Kentin Mahé, itinerary of a child not always spoiled

2021-01-20T07:13:50.297Z


PORTRAIT - After having experienced a difficult period, the Frenchman has established himself, since the start of the World Cup, as the offensive leader of the Blues at the center-half position, where he makes up for the absence of a certain Nikola Karabatic.


29 years old, the age of maturity for Kentin Mahé?

In the French team, Pascal's son, former Barjot who became world champion in 1995 for the first time in the history of French handball, has known it all.

And not just happiness.

A reservist in his early days, Mahé used to start preparations under Claude Onesta, without being subsequently selected among the 16 or 17 privileged contesting the major competitions.

An apprenticeship through frustration that he was able to overcome, chomping at the bit before finding, little by little, his place among the Experts.

In a role of left winger, replacing Michaël Guigou, with the possibility of helping out sometimes as a center-half, where he expressed his talent in the various German clubs he attended: Gummersbach (2011-2013), Hamburg (2013-2015) or even Flensburg (2015-2018), which he left to join Hungary and Veszprem.

All without ever having played in the French championship so far, he

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Source: lefigaro

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