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I'm bored so I'll rant about something I am fond of.
Yeah,I'm a sucker for sports(I watch football,ski jumping,tennis,basketball,handball,hokey sometimes and love to play basketball,table tennis,tennis and football) and my favorite is football but sadly in Romania I found the football to be boring so I don't go to the matches even if I do have a favorite team.
Today's post is ,contrary to what u might have thought (see,I was misleading *evil grin*),not about football but about a sport in which we still excel : Handball(the women's handball to be exact).It's a long post but I hope that won't scare anyone who might be reading and u'll read it even just to learn random facts or out of boredom. *puppy eyes* it took me a while to write it :D
See,we have a great generation of women players and have great results (we could do better but they sometimes are unlucky or don't concentrate)so it's a pleasure to watch them play.Sadly for me ,the best teams are not in Bucharest so I can't go watch them play but I had my chance this weekend and it was great.This weekend,after finishing 4th in the World Championship because the referee stole us in the quarterfinals with France( when they let the french butcher us,denied some goals and forced us to fight in overtime so with Russia in the semifinals they were too tired to win),our national team got to organize the qualification tournament for the Olympic Games where they played 3 games : one against Japan,one against Hungary and one against Poland.The first 2 teams got to qualify for the O.G. .
Our team won all 3 matches and finished first followed by Hungary(which,if u're not a fan of the sport,is one of the best teams in the world).
I went to the games and it was so great because,especially on Saturday when they played with Hungary,the place was packed with supporters and we sang and clapped from the 1st minute to the last one.This is particularly great because we are usually not that happy or proud to be romanians(because of how some people from other countries tend to treat us just 'cause they got their facts about us wrong)but when a romanian team or person does something,competes in something ,we are all very supportive and we feel proud that someone shows the world glimpses of what we really are/can be.So,for 3 days I and many others were avid supporters and patriots with our flags held high and the name of our country on everyone's lips.
It's very interesting how ,in Romania and in many other places where football is the top story in sports,they write little of sports like Handball but somehow everyone knows the players and respects them.Our current national team consists of both older and younger players who come,with few exceptions,from one (yes,just one) team in Romania called Oltchim Ramnicu-Valcea which won a lot of titles in the last few years not only nationally but internationally.Even the coach of our national team,Gheorghe(hard to pronounce much? :D)Tadici is the same as the coach from Oltchim.Some of this players are already part of our history,everyone knows them and we can all remember victories from years ago in which they had a big part .Also,they play with passion ,determination and love for their national team(unlike our football players)and because most play at the same team they know eachother very well so they work very well together.
I especially want to mention the one whose name is in my title : Luminita HUTUPAN-Dinu ,the goalkeeper who is about 36 years old and pretty much the best goalkeeper in the world and the one everyone loves the most because for ,I'm guessing,10 years more or less,she gave everything and saved us many times including today because even if the rest of the team doesn't concentrate she'll do great and defend a lot of the shots.The title of my post is what was shouted for minutes put together today ,yesterday and everytime our team plays.
Also I think the coach,Tadici,has a huge merit 'cause he turned every team he trained ,including the national team,into a treasure and managed to keep the right atmosphere in the team.
The cool thing is that after the game everyone can enter the court and talk/take pictures/autographs or just take a ball and fool around(yes,i did that because I'm such a child)so I got to actually meet most of the team,they are great girls(and very tall :D) and they stayed for a good hour after the game to give a chance to everyone to have their moment(picture,autograph,a few words,etc)which was so good because there were many kids/teenagers who were very happy about that. It was funny how some supporters were after the coach and they called him to do an interview for a television but the supporters where right there and the people at the television were all mad and telling them to wait a few minutes.Related to that,I was very pleasantly surprised to see that our coach ,who is an elder gentleman who looks rather menacing, speaks his mind,shouts the whole match at the referees(God,that is so funny,everyone loves it except the referee and he gets a yellow card almost every match)and then speaks his mind in front of any television camera, was ,in fact ,a very,very nice guy(although no one thinks he's bad anyways)
On Saturday I forgot my camera at home but today,Sunday,I remembered to take it with me and took pictures which I'll just post here 'cause a post with pictures is a pretty post.
Yeah,I'm a sucker for sports(I watch football,ski jumping,tennis,basketball,handball,hokey sometimes and love to play basketball,table tennis,tennis and football) and my favorite is football but sadly in Romania I found the football to be boring so I don't go to the matches even if I do have a favorite team.
Today's post is ,contrary to what u might have thought (see,I was misleading *evil grin*),not about football but about a sport in which we still excel : Handball(the women's handball to be exact).It's a long post but I hope that won't scare anyone who might be reading and u'll read it even just to learn random facts or out of boredom. *puppy eyes* it took me a while to write it :D
See,we have a great generation of women players and have great results (we could do better but they sometimes are unlucky or don't concentrate)so it's a pleasure to watch them play.Sadly for me ,the best teams are not in Bucharest so I can't go watch them play but I had my chance this weekend and it was great.This weekend,after finishing 4th in the World Championship because the referee stole us in the quarterfinals with France( when they let the french butcher us,denied some goals and forced us to fight in overtime so with Russia in the semifinals they were too tired to win),our national team got to organize the qualification tournament for the Olympic Games where they played 3 games : one against Japan,one against Hungary and one against Poland.The first 2 teams got to qualify for the O.G. .
Our team won all 3 matches and finished first followed by Hungary(which,if u're not a fan of the sport,is one of the best teams in the world).
I went to the games and it was so great because,especially on Saturday when they played with Hungary,the place was packed with supporters and we sang and clapped from the 1st minute to the last one.This is particularly great because we are usually not that happy or proud to be romanians(because of how some people from other countries tend to treat us just 'cause they got their facts about us wrong)but when a romanian team or person does something,competes in something ,we are all very supportive and we feel proud that someone shows the world glimpses of what we really are/can be.So,for 3 days I and many others were avid supporters and patriots with our flags held high and the name of our country on everyone's lips.
It's very interesting how ,in Romania and in many other places where football is the top story in sports,they write little of sports like Handball but somehow everyone knows the players and respects them.Our current national team consists of both older and younger players who come,with few exceptions,from one (yes,just one) team in Romania called Oltchim Ramnicu-Valcea which won a lot of titles in the last few years not only nationally but internationally.Even the coach of our national team,Gheorghe(hard to pronounce much? :D)Tadici is the same as the coach from Oltchim.Some of this players are already part of our history,everyone knows them and we can all remember victories from years ago in which they had a big part .Also,they play with passion ,determination and love for their national team(unlike our football players)and because most play at the same team they know eachother very well so they work very well together.
I especially want to mention the one whose name is in my title : Luminita HUTUPAN-Dinu ,the goalkeeper who is about 36 years old and pretty much the best goalkeeper in the world and the one everyone loves the most because for ,I'm guessing,10 years more or less,she gave everything and saved us many times including today because even if the rest of the team doesn't concentrate she'll do great and defend a lot of the shots.The title of my post is what was shouted for minutes put together today ,yesterday and everytime our team plays.
Also I think the coach,Tadici,has a huge merit 'cause he turned every team he trained ,including the national team,into a treasure and managed to keep the right atmosphere in the team.
The cool thing is that after the game everyone can enter the court and talk/take pictures/autographs or just take a ball and fool around(yes,i did that because I'm such a child)so I got to actually meet most of the team,they are great girls(and very tall :D) and they stayed for a good hour after the game to give a chance to everyone to have their moment(picture,autograph,a few words,etc)which was so good because there were many kids/teenagers who were very happy about that. It was funny how some supporters were after the coach and they called him to do an interview for a television but the supporters where right there and the people at the television were all mad and telling them to wait a few minutes.Related to that,I was very pleasantly surprised to see that our coach ,who is an elder gentleman who looks rather menacing, speaks his mind,shouts the whole match at the referees(God,that is so funny,everyone loves it except the referee and he gets a yellow card almost every match)and then speaks his mind in front of any television camera, was ,in fact ,a very,very nice guy(although no one thinks he's bad anyways)
On Saturday I forgot my camera at home but today,Sunday,I remembered to take it with me and took pictures which I'll just post here 'cause a post with pictures is a pretty post.
