VfL Potsdam signs circle player Sergej Gorpishin as newcomer for the coming season

Potsdam. When planning the squad for the coming season, 1. VfL Potsdam balances its balance sheet. After two reported departures (Rolando Urios Gonzalez and Vasilije Kaluderovic) and two contract extensions (Nils Fuhrmann and Maxim Orlov), the second division handball club has announced its second newcomer: Circle player Sergej Gorpishin comes to the Adler from league opponent Eulen Ludwigshafen. VfL had previously signed Elias Kofler from Austria.

Bob Hanning: “Don’t know what’s going to come of it”

Gorpishin will fill the vacant squad position at Circle created by Gonzalez’s split. The 25-year-old has Russian roots but was born in Erlangen when his father played handball there. “Sergej is a bit older, but an exciting player for me,” says Bob Hanning. However, the VfL coach admits: “Honestly, I don’t know what will come of it, but there are players like that, you have to try it when you have an idea, and I have an idea.” Gorpishin was high-class from a young age played and am now “at the crossroads to make another leap in sports,” says Hanning. The coach trusts himself to make the two-meter giant better and to strengthen the Potsdam project with him on the defensive.

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In the current season, Gorpishin met Potsdam twice with Ludwigshafen, both games ended in a draw, with the pivot missing from the second half match due to a foot injury. He describes his future team as a “young but well-trained group”. As a promoted team, the Adler are in an impressive sixth place. The eighth-to-last game of the season is scheduled for Saturday against tenth-placed TV05/07 Hüttenberg (7:30 p.m./sportdeutschland.tv).

Active abroad with Vardar Skopje and CSKA Moscow

Ludwigshafen is eighth, just one point behind Potsdam. The separation from Gorpishin after the current season is “not a decision against Sergej”, says Eulen managing director Lisa Heßler, “but is due to the reorientation to the pivot position”. She describes him as a “team player”. The handball player, who was also on the record for Russia’s national team, has gotten around a lot in his career. Starting with HF Springe, I continued with HC Erlangen and Wölfen Rimpar, followed by experience abroad including the Champions League at HC Vardar Skopje in North Macedonia, the first episode in Ludwigshafen, an interlude at CSKA Moscow and returning to the Eulen in autumn 2022 , where he made his re-debut with the guest performance in Potsdam.

From next season, Gorpishin will be seen there more often. “I would like to thank the coaching team for the trust and the opportunity,” he says – and hopes that Hanning & Co. will lead him in the right direction at the crossroads.

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