The HBC Nantes French will be the rival of Barça in the semifinals of the Final Four de la Champions League handball that will take place on June 11 and 12 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne according to the draw that took place this Tuesday in Vienna.
The French team, which will play its second Final Four, has gone from less to more in this edition of the Champions league, since he finished sixth in group B with only 12 points, but he already showed signs of improvement when he lost by the minimum against him Barça (30-29) at the Palau, where the Barça team has not lost a game in the top European competition since 2015.
The Nantes, whose goal the young man defends Emil Nielsen, with its future linked to Barça for within two seasons, and that has as top scorer the former Barça player Valero Rivera placeholder image, already left out two candidates for the title as the Kielce Polish in eighths and at Veszprem Hungarian in quarters.
The French team has a marked Spanish character, since its coach is Alberto Entrerríos and in the template, in addition to Valero Rivera placeholder image, are players like Adriá Figueras, David balaguer Y Eduardo Gurbindo.
The other semifinal will face Paris SG also French, who directs Spanish Raul Gonzalez and in which they play Ferrán Solé Y Viran Morros, and to Aalborg Danish, debutant in a Final Four, two teams that have never won the title.
The Barça, nine times champion, has not won the handball Champions League since 2015, when he won 28-23 at Vezsprem on the same stage. In the last final, held at the end of December, the Barça team lost 33-28 against the THW How.
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