Aconvictions after three months from final of the last Champions League between Bara and the Polish Kielce, the two teams meet on the second day of the group stage this season (today, 20:45). The final one, one of the most exciting in history, was decided in penalty. What Gonzalo Prez de Vargas stopped Alex Dujshebaev ultimately decided the champion. A few weeks later Alex and his wife were guests at Gonzalo’s wedding. Now, their respective teams are once again among the favorites to reach the Final Four and fight again to become European champions.
The despair of the Kielce captain, who has itHe won the Champions League with Macedonian Vardar in 2017, was reflected in photos like the one that appears here and in videos recorded inside the Polish locker rooms. “When in January there is a competition for national, world or European teams, there is no time to think about the result. You have to adjust to your club again and leave it behind, both for the good and for the fun, the bad and having finished the season so late and the holidays are coming, you have more time to think about it, ”Alex explains. end of course like this. “But now, with more desire to do better if possible and try to take a step forward,” he says.
Having finished the season so late and the holidays came, I had more time to think about the final one
So much Bara and Kielce started this Champions League with notable victories over two credited rivals such as Hungary’s Szeged and France’s Nantes, respectively. Their group, which also includes the German THW Kiel or the Danish Aalborg, it is tremendously challenging. “This prevents you from relaxing all season because you know it will be very important to do your homework now to allow you to have a slightly cheaper schedule in March when the meetings start,” Alex points out.
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The Spanish international, on the left, in defensive action against Cindric / EFE
From now on, his team will have to face a very difficult competitive phase. After passing through Palau, they visit Aalborg in Denmark and host THW Kiel the next day. Last season, around this time, Kielce beat Bara twice in a row and positively direct your path. “Last season we left it behind. We play against the defending champion and it is always a motivation ”, Dujshebaev points out. “The last few times we faced each other we were very balanced. We know they have a better team now, but so do we, and it will be a great match. achieve it ”, he guarantees.
Among those novelties to which you allude is the arrival in his team of the French national Nedim Remili, a player who shares a position with Alex. So this Thursday In addition to Barça player Dika Mem, perhaps the three best left-backs in world handball will meet at Palau. “Richardson is also in very good shape and sometimes they play with the two lefties. Many of us can coincide on the pitch, “says Alex, whose hand ball can benefit from the nu distribution of the minutes to the nu distribution of the minutes.
Winning at Palau twice in a row is very difficult, but we will give everything to succeed
“Remili is a ‘top’, he will give a lot to the team and sometimes we can also play together. It is important to have people of that quality so that the team continues to grow. Aside from the actual competition between the two, the fact will be important. It will give us an advantage, because it brings different things and it’s nice to have variations, ”explained the eldest of the Dujshebaev brothers.
In those difficult moments after the lost final, Alex addressed his teammates in the Kielce locker room as captain and assured them that they will return to Cologne and win the second Champions League for the Polish champion. Over time she reaffirms herself. “As it is. What I said is what I felt and the team thinks the same way. We keep that desire and that ambition. Of course, then things may or may not go well, but our idea is that. . We will go with everything, even if it will not be easy at all ”.
