After the 29:23 away win (halftime 17:14) in Dresden at HC Elbflorenz 2006, the next home game of the Eulen Ludwigshafen handball team will take place on Wednesday, November 9th at 7pm in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle. There will be an exciting derby against TV Großwallstadt in the Eberthölle.
With their fourth win of the season, the Eulen Ludwigshafen are tenth in the table with 9:7 points after 8 games and have a balanced goal difference of 234 to 234 goals.
TV Großwallstadt has played 9 games and is ninth in the second handball league with 10:8 points.
SportDeutschland.TV will broadcast the handball game live from 6.45 p.m. Reporter Karsten Knäuper and co-commentator Thorsten Laubscher, an owl icon, have long been a perfectly attuned duo on the microphone.
A SQUAD WITH QUALITY :
The TV Großwallstadt, last season as table 17. just above the line, i.e. almost relegated, experienced a turning point in the summer. With Saavas Saavas (ASV Hamm-Westfalen) and Tom Jansen (VfL Gummersbach), the two most successful goalscorers said goodbye to the Bundesliga. “With Kammlodt and Wullenweber they have got two really good handball players. They have a few more of that class,” says Eulen coach Michel Abt, referring to Finn Wullenweber, who came from HSV Hamburg, and Adrian Kammlodt, who is also 1.96 meters tall and was previously under contract in Aue, describing the special squad qualities. Both enrich the backcourt, where ex-Ferndorfer Simon Strakeljahn has found his place as a middleman. “He’s good,” said Abt, also praising goalkeeper Petros Boukovinas, who came from AEK Athens.
“VORI – THE LITTLE VOLCANO” :
“Grosswallstadt is a little grab bag. They started really well, but also scored 35 goals in each of the last two games,” says coach Abt, looking back at the 30:35 of the Großwallstadt team in Potsdam and at the 34:35 home defeat of the TVG against Hagen. Igor Vori (42) replaced Maik Handschke as coach at the beginning of the season in Großwallstadt. With 246 caps, Vori is the record Croatian international with a wealth of experience, including at RK Zagreb, FC Barcelona and Paris St. Germain. Defense specialist Vori played for HSV Hamburg for four years and was reactivated as an emergency helper for three months by Füchsen Berlin in March 2022. The Croatian has scored 442 goals in 140 Bundesliga appearances. “Vori, that’s a small volcano. He creates a lot of atmosphere in Großwallstadt and is very emotional. He relies on a 5:1 defense and with his style he certainly manages to bring a lot of professionalism to Großwallstadt,” says Michel Abt.
RIP OFF OWLS :
The owls recently celebrated a surprisingly clear away win against HC Elbflorenz 2006 in Dresden with 29:23 (17:14). “One is annoyed that it has become tight again. That was due to the evaluation of chances,” the coach explains how it came about that after the 13:5 lead, the scoreboard was only a tight 15:13 at times. After the four-goal break, nothing happened – the Owls won with six. Abt: “We then played it ripped off in the style of an experienced team and made the important saves at the right moment.”
“GOOD THAT HE IS HERE” :
“If someone had told us beforehand that we would win in Dresden by a margin of six goals, we would all have been happy to sign it,” says Sergey Gorpishin, who was signed after Christian Klimek’s injury. “It’s good that he’s here. He gives Max Haider recovery phases and thus also has his share of the victories,” says Michel Abt in praise of the line runner, who already gave a short guest performance in Ludwigshafen at the end of 2020.
FAMILY DELIGHTED BY THE OWL CLIMATE :
When his father came to TSG Friesenheim as a professional in 2003, Sergey was just six and attended the daycare center at Ebertpark in Ludwigshafen. “I still have a picture from when my dad picked me up at the kindergarten,” says Sergey with a smile. The dad – this is Vyacheslav Gorpishin. The two-meter man embodied world class in his prime, played 270 times in the national team, won Olympic gold with the Russian team in 1992 and 2000, and Olympic silver in 1994. The backcourt player, who played in Germany alongside TSG for HC Erlangen, SG Leutershauen, Eintracht Hildesheim and HF Springe, became vice world champion with Russia in 1999. At the Eulen’s most recent home game against Hagen, Sergey’s parents and his girlfriend, who studies in Halle an der Saale, were in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle. “They were enthusiastic about the atmosphere, about the atmosphere in the hall. My father said it’s great, it’s still as familiar as it was back then,” says Sergey, whose girlfriend immediately felt at home with the team and with the wives and girlfriends of the other players after the home win. “Here you can see that you can work professionally and that there is also human harmony,” enthuses Sergey Gorpishin about the great atmosphere.
SUCCESSFUL CRASH COURSE:
“I’m extremely satisfied. I’m well integrated into the team and I feel like I can help. It’s going well, but I would have liked to have spared us the defeat in Coburg,” says Sergey Gorpishin, who made his debut in a draw in Potsdam. Having only arrived after preparation, having been without team training since leaving CSKA Moscow in May, the pivot admits he still needs to work on improving his physique. “It was a bit of a crash course to adjust to it from now on, as Remmlinger alludes to, like Eisel. It takes time, but it’s getting better and better,” says the two-meter-tall circle player, who practically inherited the number 15 from his father. “It’s also about getting into better communication in the game,” says the 25-year-old. It is striking that he now knows how to conduct loudly in the inner block during training. Now it’s time to successfully solve the homework against TV Großwallstadt. “We have the means to be able to be successful against any opponent,” says Gorpishin, who gets along “super well” with circle runner colleague Max Haider. “Max also picked me up at the train station when I came to the trial training session,” says Gorpishin, who was born in Erlangen, emphasizing the good relationship with the captain.
More information about the Ludwigshafen owls is available at www.eulen-ludwigshafen.de.
Text owls Ludwigshafen and Michael Sonnick
