Eight years ago, at the World Championship for female cadets in Macedonia, Montenegro missed out on a medal - in the semi-finals, after a turnaround, Romania won 28:25, in the match for 3rd place Norway won 20:19, although the "reds" led 13:8 on half time.
What she failed to do eight years ago with the generation of Đurđina Jauković, Đurđina Malović, Itana Grbić, Ema Ramusović, Ivone Pavićević, Dijane Ujkić, Ljubica Nenezić..., Maja Savić will now try to do in the same place, in a country that is received the prefix North.
The new generation, which includes the two biggest hopes of Montenegrin handball, 15-year-old Nina Ramusović and Maja Ceklić, will start their appearance at the WC for players under 18 with a duel with Algeria tomorrow at 10.30:XNUMX a.m. Rivals in group A are Iceland and Sweden, and the two first-placed selections will go to the next stage.
There are 17 players on the roster, while goalkeeper Andrea Škerović and winger Maša Kuzmanović are positive for the coronavirus, which is why they can only join the team later.
"There are excellent preparations behind us. We gave everything we could in the past weeks and I hope it will come back to us. We have two younger players with us who were really good in training, and with all that energy pushed us to the very end," said Marija Marsenić for MNE handball.
In the absence of Škerović, the girl who already has minutes in the Champions League will be undisputed in goal.
"It will be difficult without Škera, and I have a greater responsibility. Of course, I'm not afraid, but it would be much easier if she was with me. Scissors is always with me and we work as a tandem. I think I'm in good shape, I feel strong energy from the team, which gives me the wind at my back. We analyzed Algeria. A slightly different style of handball is waiting for us, it seems to me that they play more with heart and less with tactics," Marsenić emphasized.
List - goalkeepers
Marija Marsenić
Aleksandra Bazović
Pivot girls
Maša Mitrović
Ema Kolić
Andrea Brajović
Wings
Lana Pavićević
Ivana Vujadinović
Tamara Radonjic
Nina Radmanović
Backs
Jelena Vukčević
Mia Raznatovic
Katarina Sutovic
Nikolina Marković
Nadja Micevska
Nina Ramusović
Maja Ceklić
Kristina Arsenijević
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