What is Handball? - America's Next Great Sport
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I hope so, greeting from Croatia.
Pozdrav brate
Low key this is the best sport ever.
Yes🥰
I have no clue where to play but it looks like so much fun
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, in the middle of the night, I stumbled across what could only be called “novelty coverage” of a Team Handball contest being broadcast over the air. I’d never heard of the game (to Americans, “handball” is like Squash without rackets). After just a couple of minutes of watching, I was amazed.
The Olympics have been my only real chance to see the sport at all - and not many games were shown here in the US. Almost nobody has heard of the sport and I keep talking about it every 4 years. Over the years, I’ve managed to see more and more of the sport as the American broadcaster has needed material to fill several cable channels during The Games. With streaming finally coming of age, I’ll be able to see as much of the tournament as I like.
I’m 58 years old now so I’ll never actually be able to play the game, but I’ll still watch and promote it whenever I get the chance.
I hope there’s ressurection so you can play in your next life🙁🙁
Really well explained. Greetings from Kiel, Germany. If you know handball, you know Kiel 🙂
Seams like thy don't know handball yet 😅
I watched a kiel game in norway a little while ago and dhk got shit on by them lmao
You know that kiel have palika sweadens best goal keeper lol
Greetings from Ciudad Real
You know...😌😌😌
Stop it! You guys are so spoiled with your team ^^ Great city to be in. Too bad the German team couldn't play in semi-finals against France. That's always a very intense game! Cheers.
Started playing handball 33 years ago and ever since I wondered why Americans who complain about "low scoring football" dont like handball.
You need to be athletic AND fast, you need agility and a good eye-hand-coordination, it rarely has any breaks and its high-scoring.
Where do you play?
@@sophieminter0
In Germany.
So americans need to play and like every sport?
@@tomo24
Who tf said that!?!
@@tomo24 it litteraly sounds like american describes his perfect sport
I'm happy to see America getting some interest for the best sport that ever existed.
Greetings from France
Congratulations on winning the gold! But seriously do you want Americans too become good at this with our huge 7 feet ( about 2.2 meters ) athletes?
@@TheMrPeteChannel you have to known that current handballer in france, danmark, croatia... are also above 2m. Exceptionnal athletes are not only in usa.
@@ouicestmoi8393 Height is not everything in handball, yes you can shoot at 9 meters more easily, but a shoot from 9m is much easier to block from the keeper. You need speed, good direction changes, good game reading, good teamplay, good fakes.
Don't worry about the US too much, they are far from being good enough to win anything yet.
And as a frenchman that played handball when I was younger, let me tell i'd love to see new oponents coming up such as Canada and USA.
Handball has been a heavily European sport for decades, it's good seeing some fresh blood such as Egypt coming to contest against the best teams.
To win WC or Olympics you need players that are playing handball since they are 8 years old minimum, it's not happening for the US yet.
Top 10 countries of tallest peoples are European
@@TheMrPeteChannel Danes are the 2nd tallets people in the world, i mention Denmark because they invented the sport. They are tall fit and strong i tell you.
I have never seen a better and compact explanation of handball. Thank you.
For all the people who want to learn more about these sports and their people can come with me on a handball world trip. Hopefully with a visit in the US at the end.
Handball inspires!
Much better if it showed women # San Diego Ambassadors HC #womeninhandball
Rolando R. Moreno. I agree with that!
A team of U17 french handball players would beat a team of 7 Lebron James any day of the year.
That's true for most European countries like Denmark Sweden Spain Germany and so on.
The notion that James could become world class in 6 months is ludicrous, other than both sports use a ball, it is a totally different skill set. That said, the US could be really good at team handball, lots of not quite good enough for basketball could excel as could baseball players.
I remember before there was a selection of i think NBA player playing a exhibition match against some semi pro handball players. Needless to say handball players destroyed them, although it is absolutely possible for the USA to become a great handballing nation it would take some time and effort such as actually employing class trainers and players to select and train national team. Also quality comes from having a competitive handball leagues and support from the sponsors. Handball in rest of the world and especially Europe is played with a lot of passion and a long tradition.
not so sure about world class but an NBA PLAYER could PROBABLY achieve professional level after a year or two if he knows how to throw a ball in a straight line ... I played Handball for 10 years.
@@lsmola The best the US could do, would be to introduce it in highschool (and earlier too) as an alternative to Basketball or Lacrosse or Football (American). Handball is fast paced, has multiple roles for different skillsets, quick player swaps and constant tempo - and it's physical too so you get a real workout not just for stamina but also strength. It's literally perfect for US schools to form teams and start casual competition there and let it grow organically to fuel bigger leagues with higher skill and price pools. Once the interest and a bit of money is there, higher profile coaches will come too. Ex European coaches could be a great starting point to get things rolling and share their experience.
@@Real_MisterSir I agree it would be great in the schools and for sure you could bring lots of experienced coaches and even players to the USA. But tbf in the grand scale of things there isn't much money in handball so unless it becomes wildly popular very fast it would stay on the school level. Most popular sports generate huge revenue which with handball isn't the case. It would be great for the sport if more countries become good at it. Just like football (soccer), USA team is no joke nowadays but it did take a lot of time,money and promotion of the sport to get it where it is today.
my daughter has played handball for 21 years in the Netherlands ,last year the dutch national team won the World Cup i was for seven years a referee with a lot off joy ,we stil watch a games at her old club ,it's the most dynamic sport
hope to see the Americans in the next Olympic Games greetings from the Netherlands
you'll see it in 2028 for sure, as Los Angeles will host the Olympics
Played handbal in the netherlands 60 years ago ,on soccer fields but with the same rules ,laterally we played indoors during the winter because of weather conditions i assume ,great game ,but as a goalkeeper the cement floor was not very gentle for the hips !
Words cannot describe how delighted I am that this video saw daylight. Handball is a very exciting sport because of the fast rhythm and the impossibility of a match ending in a nil nil draw. The United States were supposed to take part in the 2021 World Championship currently taking place in Egypt but withdrew because of bloody COVID. Personally I would have reached out to be part of a team, but I am too old at this point. Regardless, a very warm welcome to USA for entering the Handball World 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #handballrules
Very nice video, greetings from handball country Croatia... I hope USA team will do good in next WC in Egypt, you guys have one more fan...
još dva fana iz hrvatske ;)
(two more Croatian fans )
This looks so fun and I would love to play!! About to see if there’s anything in my area for this!!
I played this in high school one time, it was a lot of fun.
It is fun but very very hard. Trust me im playing this sport over 7 years or so.
Awesome video!
Use to play this all the time in gym class. Are teacher would get mad at us because we played very rough. Great sport!
I'd love to tryout! Looks so fun to play!
Woaaaahhhhh looks super dope
@Alfred Lauber nice
Played in highschool in India. Great game. Many people confused it and played it like Rugby (ttoally different)
LOVE TO SEE IT
Qué pasa que en este maravilloso país no exista profesionalmente este deporte que es tan maravilloso,mi hija le encanta ella era Pivo en el equipo de la secundaria y buenísima que era en Cuba pero cuando llegamos a Estados Unidos,buscamos y nunca pudimos contactarnos con nadie.Lo digo mil veces me encanta este deporte.
Si, muy triste aqui en EU. En California BH y HC pero muy pocos
"It would take 6 months to lebron James to become the best handball player in the world" ??!!! Seriously guys??! You don't get great at a sport just because you run fast and jump hight, seriously!! We have almost a century now of developping Handball in Europe, it's cultural, it's not something you just learn out of nothing. In france it is THE school sport, and our sport arenas are basicaly a Handball peach with others lines in different colors for the other sports. Quite often, at least in small towns, the sport teacher at school is also the local young team's coach.
Yea nah bron would be a pro in ab a week
wow ok
Tylar Ward you're being ridiculous to the max and any NBA player would SUCK at handball compared to the top international
level even if they dedicated their whole career from now on - it's not a random minor college sport. It's likely the 2nd biggest team sport in the world and most of Europe have a century of handball culture's head start. Forget it - it's not gonna happen !
*handball pitch
@@FenceThis NBA players already have the athleticism and greater verticals
Nice video!
Handball is such a cool sport !!! My country is world champions again ! So sad Team Usa missed the world cup :(
Amazing video, handball needs to be the most popular sport in america
Played this in high school in Minnesota. Getting hit by the ball really hurts, especially playing goalie. Fun game, super physical. Good workout.
No pads, no helmets - just balls
@@betian1983 at least goalie gets protection for their lower region, but otherwise you just gotta tank those hits and suck it up
Love it! Gonna have to try it out!
If you've never played it before, you might not like it. You've got to have strong hands, good throwing technique, good jumping technique.
@@republicofhandball8815 And get used to be beaten hard as its a very physical sport haha
My wife and I took a trip to Prague. Our hotel overlooked a local high school (or whatever the Czechs call it). In the morning we saw these unusual markings behind the school. When we came back for lunch, the goals had been erected and there were two handball games in progress, one for the guys and one for the gals. The athleticism in both games was really impressive. If that was recess-level play, it's going to take a lot of effort to get a national team to Olympic level. Just saying.
Oh, that had to be the Prague Cup. Not exactly recess level, that's an international youth tournament.
My daughter plays soccer (plays midfield and goalie)and volleyball and would do great in Team Handball but I've yet to find a youth club or program for her here in Houston.
I'm a Brazilian prospective applicant for fall 2023. I played handball from 2016 to 2020, being stopped by the pandemic. I already knew that handball was basically neglected in the US, but seeing that it's not even on the current sports list in any university is disappointing. The only way to make handball bigger in the world is to make it bigger in the US; presumably, a matter of investment and audience.
If someone is reading this in January 2023, check out the Men's Handball World Championship that will be held this month in Sweden.
hola quiero jugar balonmano
I play handball in Norway backbin the 1970s and 1980s. I have luved in USA for nearly one year, and my substitute over there was basketball. Basketball is fun. At the same time, I am wondering why team handball is not widespread in the USA. If you combine the skills of a basketball player and a player of American Football, you would get a rather good handball player!!!
2:40, yeah, cause I am german, so i am from a nation that is actually good at it.
and I'm from Denmark :)
@@risputte congrats for winning the world championship ✌🏼
Was good at it
@@OfficialArthusamakh I dunno, third most medals, fourth most wins, and our teams winning the champions league as recently as last year, tell another story.
@@FantasKanal There's a reason Germany hasn't been counted among the best of the best teams in over 10 years. Their success in 2016 was rather lucky in my opinion. The final should've been Norway:Spain. In the final though there was nothing to say, great match by Germany. And the 2007 semifinal was also kind of lucky with that weird referee descision in the last seconds. Yes, Germany has 3 world cups, 1 olympia and 2 euros, but 3 of those titles were 50 or more years ago and 2 of them nearly 15 years ago. As we saw at the world cup, right now Germany is not really a big threat for other teams when it comes to winning the title. I feel sorry for Gensheimer, he's probably the best German of the past 15 years and if I remember right he missed the Euro 16 due to an injury.
And coming to clubs: the Bundesliga is great but it's carried by foreigners.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Ohio. Our sophomore gym teacher (in 1984) introduced us to the sport and we played for a quarter. Really interesting sport. We did not have real goals but used tape on the walls to recreat goal size.
To this day I have no idea why the guy even knew about the sport. I never really saw it again until I moved to Europe.
It´s funny watching people throwing the ball for the first time. Most people fail, because of the resin/sap on the ball. :-)
I’m gonna get really into handball
We played handball one year at my high school in New Jersey, USA, back in the 90s. It was awesome! I made the all-star team, even though I had never even heard of the game before then. Games got pretty chippy. I probably would have gotten a few red cards. Having played American football and basketball all my life, it was really intuitive. Fun sport. If you've played ultimate frisbee or basketball, there are some similar passing patterns. The strategy seems to be nowhere near as intricate as American football and the athletes can't compare to NBA athletes (I've played against NBA athletes: you can't understand until you have), but nonetheless handball is a great sport. In New York, we have a totally different game that's also called handball. I don't think it's played anywhere else in the world. If you watch the movie Big with Tom Hanks, you can see them play.
I.. have to question your statement that handball athletes can't compare with NBA athletes. What exactly are you basing this statement on?
Have you played against top level handball players?
More like Basketball players can't compete with Handball players at all. I played both sports and football(soccer), handball is phisically on another level. Football was the easiest to play.
Played handball in Denmark,years ago!
I want to play handball or at least try the sport out, but I can't because I live in Sacramento, California. The only other handball teams in CA are in SF and LA. :/ I can't even try it out for fun.
Are you good at taking a ball that hardly fits your palm and still you are able to throw that ball with 50miles/hour? Or, are you good at jumping high? If neither of these, then it won't be too much fun to play handball.
Don't mind me if I use this video to bring interest to my fellow american and canadian friends
Do you typically recruit from the handball clubs? Also, if there isn’t a club nearby to tryout for, how difficult would it be to start one?
We do look at talent from our handball clubs nationwide, and also from athletes in other communities as well! It would not be too difficult to start one, email info@usateamhandball.org and we’ll send you a Start-Up Manual that will help you get started!
First of all, team handball is not for everyone. Don't know how tall and strong you are, in fact, you could play handball no matter your size and muscles, but you won't play it at a competitive level. You could be short, but you could play either a center back(play maker, so only on the offensive part) if you have great skills to handle that ball, or, you could be an winger, but you've got to jump high. Otherwise, wanna see the first team handball video game for Android? Check out: "Republic of Handball" on google play.
it looks so fun i wish i could play
Played for CSKA in the 90s. Made it to KMS in matter of 3 years. Came to USA only to find out that it was not developed here yet.
So I see this is a combination of basketball, soccer and ice hockey (my sport)
It is like water-polo but on a ground and not in a pool. 😉
Denmark 🇩🇰 is the World champion 🇩🇰 in 2021
France 🇲🇫😂
@@dougpinnick9279 congratulations in the Olympic Games 🥇🏆
I’m in high school and interested in joining a club where can I find clubs I can maybe join?
try googling Handball teams + The name of your city/ state.
If that doesn't work try getting a few friends interested and start from there...
You don't need 2 full teams if you can't find that many people. We played it in school a few times and we sometimes played with 9 players each, sometimes with 5
Greetings from Croatia, Hope you find a way to give it a shot
@Alfred Lauber hvilken klub og hvor gammel er du?
Where are the teams in Texas????
Let's see what you'll build up in the next few years. I'd say it's never gonna happen, but France started its handball career more or less 30 years ago and have since become the best handball nation ever. And the big competitions have been around since the 30s. But until the USA can compete with the likes of Denmark, Spain, France, Norway, Sweden and Croatia, there's a long way to go. So far only two non European countries were able to claim a medal in the world championships or Olympics, one of them was probably lucky (South Corea silver 1988) and the other was won with referees and a mainly European naturalized squad (Qatar silver 2015).
The league in the US is not getting that much attraction unfortunately. They need to add it to the high school / college country wide and send their best prospects to European clubs until they can have a chance to really compete. It's going to happen eventually but it will take time.
@@yanncourtel8538 this is the way
Egypt was world champion, no ?????
@@AttackTheGasStation1 no but they have good chances at that if they continue going on like in the last 2-3 years
Just listened to a video why soccer isn't that popular for tv stations: too much play, not enough breaks for commercials. Probably part of the same reason with handball. Sad that commercials dictate what sports become popular in the US
played this at pe so fun
I wish I knew about this in high school
wait, 11 million teams and 30 million players, but each team needs at least 7 players? Must be a lot of overlap in players between teams or divisions!
There is alot of players in one team, and p there is also girls and boys teams
🤩!!
2:40 That is my home team Kristianstad
'Why am I not playing Handball? Reason, I Didn't know about until tonight.
La Suisse vous remercie de ne pas êtres allé aux mondiaux. Grâce à vous, on a fait des matchs de folies !
Mais j'espère croiser les USA plus souvent. Ça peut devenir intéressant avec votre implication sportive 😋
Yeah, because of that, Suisse came back to world cup after 26 years, in 1995 Suisse played against USA at World cup, and also at Atlanta 1996.
How can I try out
Abdelrahman Abdullah Depending on where you live, you can join and try out at the nearest handball club in your area!
I play handball it is so fkn nice!
Very nice video. The USA can be a great team. Greetings from Macedonia, HC Vardar!
Damn, forgot how much I love being between the pipes as a team handball keeper. I really need to find a better job, so I can go to practice.
A domestic professional league would be a good place to begin.
I think to introduce a new sport in the USA first the National Association should persuade the girls in the schools to know. For example the soccer would get some popularity in the USA through the women soccer success. The water polo got some popularity through the American women athletes as well. I think the women team handball should be used by same recipe to show the girls in the schools. The women team handball is same good entertainment in the TV or in the sport halls as the men handball.
I love how people think that Handball is just an easy sport to go to from basketball or baseball.
Are the best of the best in those sports very good athletes? Yes. And a lot of skills would transfer over.
But the best of the best in handball are also very good athletes with skills that more closely fit handball.
If handball was so easy to dominate, wouldn't we see a good US handball team in the olympics with all the basketball and baseball players the US has to draw from? And yet, the US team is full of foreign born people.
Handball isn't just basketball with three steps and a goal.
Yes handBALL is definitively a very GReat sport.....For Sure !
Handball is one of those sport where all the types of profile count.
U need BIG cardio
Body that can take hit
Fast leg
Strong shoulder
Fast eye
Big jump
Andbth maestria is when u come to spin this fckin ball to do curvy or even takin 90° angles
U need big team play even more in defense
And goalies take 130 km/h ball full face on purpose for saving theire teams
This game is cool this sport is war
I love this
And fouls are autorized ....
Imagine this having a pro league in the US, can very well be dominated by women. All the Europeans would come play here. It would an instant success! A fast pace, short court aggressive sport ! Someone call Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones !
They need to put tc right and make a league in USA it’ll blow
Same video, different narrator! And you'll got handball players!!
ye the narrator seems a bit ded
Lmao at Barstool quoting a US coach who claims LeBron could spend 6 months to become the best Handball player in the world.. If he spent 10 years practicing he wouldn't even touch the baseline level of entry outside the US...
Ok dude
@@FatJoesSon deal with it
How can there be 11m teams and 31m players if there has to be at least 7 players in a team????
Retired players and clubs that stop working...
team has to have at least 2 playes on all 7 positions
If the US women`s national team had played against Norway, would they even stand a chance ?
I mean yes .. .and if the Noway national Basketball team played against USA it'd probably be similar. Thing is, every country has their own preferred sports
Nope
50-0
America wining gold in team handball at Olympics is even harder than going to Moon for real (not like the hoax from 1969). I truly believe that USA should rather follow the steps of Brazil and Argentina, both south American teams were on the same level with USA, 25 years ago. Now both teams are strong enough to constantly defeat European teams.
Some European nation,,butnfsr from the top nations like france denmark, norway, swedn and croatia
I play handball for almost 10yrs now😅
I ❤ 🤾... Peter from 🇨🇭
0:22 high-scoring isn’t praise in itself
Congrats on your first ever win in the World Championship.
Your turn, America!
usA can be waterboy for european teams
I’m an American and I hade no idea what hand ball was
Vamos los yanquis, hay q armar partidazos Argentina-usa, como en básket.
Come on guys, rhe Argentina meb's team is waiting for you.
handball isn’t taught in PE classes or get the exposure as other sports in america
My favorite sport. I hate that Americans don't play it
If nba players trained for handball like they do for basketball and competed, that would be a scary sight
They look like sticks lol
@@Svante203 who?
@@wadahomer2155 But some of the handball guys would prob make very good basketball players too, like kristopans whos 7'1 -300. Landin narcisse etc.
This looks like a trailer for the next Will Ferrell movie...
It's non-stop, therefore it won't fit the commercialized sporting system the USA has "invented", meaning more commercials than play because money.
Handball is awesome, get on it, USA.
if u already played basket ball u have a lot experience
it does't surprise me that Americans don't know about handball. They are not aware on what's going on around them
Yet again.... so many ignorants. You can not compare handball, basket ball and american football. But let us play with the though: If Lebron can become the best handballer in the world with only 6 month of training, Mikkel Hansen can become the best basket ball player in the world after 6 month too... or?
recruit Jay Cutler
"America's next great sport"
*Has less than 1000 subscribers
Handball is so magic.
11 million teams with 31 million players... that doesnt sound right, when a team requires at least 7 players
The fuck is wrong with this articles, yeah sure lebron will definitely be no. 1 in 6 months. Or that some qb will won a gold for USA in handball. USA isn't even close to the mid-good teams and they are saying they can win gold thanks to players that didn't even played this sport before. Also lebron won't do shit in a handball match. This sport is way more aggresive and Compact than basketball.
I play handball in my country, Spain, it has one of the best handball team of the world.
USA has a few team but there are too bad
If US teams kneel they never will get fans
Americans....come to working vacation and learning to Croatia. we will teach you play the game!
we actually play in 4 days....ok....if you manage to score 10 goals to us you improved.
they be turning anything into a sport nowadays
And here I thought you played it by hitting a ball to a wall
That is "American" Handball. A compeletly different sport and as far as I know only played in America.
@@randomdude2026 well, i grew up in the us so thats the only way i knew how to play it
You will have the most athletic players but you have to be smart for handball and thats where you fail
Americans don't like handball cause we call it the 6-METER line and you guys have a problem with metrics xD
3 players per team? That’s weird
You might have misheard, but there are seven players per team: 6 field players and 1 goalie.
Check the worldwide stats at 1:42. “11 million teams, 31 million players. “
@@zsoltveraszto3167 Brilliant like Mathematics......+++
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So maybe you have to look at the German League. It's the best League in the World. You see great Games😁💪💪
Best league of men. I could not tell which is the best of women.
@Alfred Lauber Oh yes. I like Denmark as well, but the German League ist the strongest. But many Players are of course also Denmark.