When there were tough defeats, the captain stood up for her teammates, and when the goal was achieved and a place among the top eight in the world was achieved, Đurđina Jauković was realistic.
The Montenegrin women's handball team said goodbye to the World Cup with a defeat to Norway (32:23).
"We always do our best, but this is the current maximum, although I know that we can do better in the future and that we will use the period in the clubs to improve our form for everything that is coming," said Đurđina.
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They emphasized that this is currently a realistic picture.
"Success is being in the Top 8, we saw the numbers of how many other national teams that are in the quarterfinals have more registered players than Montenegro. What we are doing is a miracle, but as I said, this is also a realistic picture," added the ĆSM Bucharest player.
They put up solid resistance against the powerful Norwegian "lionesses", it was difficult to expect anything more, although the result might have been more favorable if the Montenegrins had been calmer in attack.
"There is a bitter taste left because of the mistakes, because it is a great luxury to make 24 technical fouls against a team like Norway, since they punish every mistake. We fought until the end, of course I can't say that it is something to be proud of, but we are the only team that lost to Norway by less than a double-digit margin. There were also good moments, but I say - we cannot allow ourselves to have 24 technical fouls," concluded the captain.
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