Along with the well-known Karabatic brothers, who performed for Montpellier Handball and Valentin Porte, the French handball group, reigning Olympic champion, counts in its ranks many gamers from MHB or natives of town. And typically each. 4 of them are discovered, Yanis Lenne, Rémi Desbonnets, Karl Konan and Samir Bellahcene.
The French males’s handball group, who gained a gold medal in Tokyo in 2021, will start their Olympic competitors on Saturday 27 July towards Denmark. Coach Guillaume Gille will be capable to rely on a lot of Montpellier residents.
Yanis Lenne, the miracle
The MHB participant is taking part in his first Olympic Video games with the Blues. Since 2021, he has been a daily with the French group, with whom he gained his first worldwide competitors in the course of the European Championship 2022.
Nonetheless, his destiny in blue might be very completely different. In the summertime of 2023, whereas MHB was getting ready in Bosnia for a pleasant match, he tore a part of his abs and injured his supporters within the course of. Uncertain hospitalization in Bosnia’s emergency room, return by ambulance to Montpellier for a 17-hour journey… Yanis Lenne virtually hit all-time low that day.
And as if that wasn’t sufficient, he was injured once more in January 2024, this time affected by a sprained ankle. Regardless of all of the difficulties, Yanis Lenne secured his place in blue for the Paris Olympics.
On the microphone of France Télévisions, the French participant MHB says that he’s very joyful.
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“All of us need to get right down to enterprise,” stated Yanis Lenne, interviewed by France Télévisions
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Rémi Desbonnets, the brand new goalkeeper of the Blues
First the enormous Thierry Omeyer, then Vincent Gérard. With the face of his two names, it’s virtually unattainable to be within the French cages for 15 years, as a result of the competitors is so powerful. However Montpellier native Rémi Desbonnets might make the most of these Video games to take the lion’s share.
On the Euro, in the beginning of 2024, Rémi Desbonnets took over as beginning goalkeeper, within the absence of Vincent Gérard. It will not be lengthy sufficient to consider, however the Montpellier winger is relishing his function as an indispensable goalkeeper within the French competitors, fairly merely among the best for a decade. As well as, Rémi Desbonnets has at all times performed within the area. First in Montpellier from 2012 to 2013, then in Nîmes for 9 years, earlier than returning with nice fanfare in 2022 to the MHB.
Lastly, the French goalkeeper can have some “revenge” to soak up these Video games. In 2021, Rémi Desbonnets, regardless of the journey to Tokyo, didn’t obtain his gold medal … As a result of he was a reserve goalkeeper for the group. That is one other story.
Karl Konan, the blue dream
Left again MHB began handball by likelihood, in Ivory Coast, the nation the place he was born. Seen for his energy and energy throughout his internship in Abidjan, the enormous Karl Konan (1m96, 96 kilos) was recruited in 2015 by the membership Pays d’Aix. He was voted the most effective defender within the league in 2018-2019, the yr he acquired French nationality. He joins the MHB in 2022.
From 2021, the 28-year-old has change into a determine within the French Handball Group. he’s gold medalist at European Championship 2024.
Samir Bellahcene, the publication
Samir Bellahcene is uncommon in each means. His physique already, that colossus: 1m91 and 120 kilos. After which there’s his profession, which has by no means been a clean river for the Montpellier native. Samir Bellahcene joined the MHB coaching heart on the age of 11, and signed his first skilled contract in 2016 with the membership. However the goalkeeper will not be taking part in, or too little. And this bitter expertise was repeated in his following golf equipment, in Massy and Dunkirk, making him concern one other individual’s function.
However Samir Bellahcene got here to mild this yr, then on the age of 29. Arriving in Kiel in Germany as a medical joke within the group, the Montpellier big is the writer of XXL performances when the coach performs him, a lot so that can Samir Bellahcene change into the #1 goalkeeper within the membership’s 2023-2024 season.
He was even topped the most effective goalkeeper within the Champions League, with excellent saves.
For the Video games, he would be the Blues’ reserve goalkeeper.
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