We have to believe in ourselves

-What was your first think after the quarter-final’s lot by draw in the end of March in Viena?

-I suspect that what kind of answer you expect for your suggestion, but I have to disappoint you: I don't muttered to myself that my club 'pulled into' again, and had no luck again. A word slipped out of my mouth at first time: revanche. I mean that we can trim the THW Kiel because of the massive, eleven-goal away defeat in mid-February.

 

 

-After the Austrian ceremony, you ports-mates in Veszprem also iterated in this way?

-Of course, none of us snapped out with joy, it is because goddess Fortuna swept thge defending champion, the toughest rival in our way. In the previous six Champions League's season THW Kiel played semi-finals five times, and it the final winner three times. A lot of people said that it would be better to "date" with the other three opponents, fate was not kind to us, but eventually we agreed: we must not fall into questions, we can not get under ourselves, and we can not give up the duel in advance. We start the duel with clean slate and head, we forgot the past. Just because it is also well known that we want to qualify ourselves into the semi-finals. As far as it is known the qualification can bring 100000 euros into club's kitchen - next to the 145000 euros, which had been earned during this season.

 

-What we need that our team change a ticket for the Final Four in Cologne in the begining of June?

-As our rival, we also have 50 per cent chance to getting through, so we do not have to do miracles. The most important is that we have to believe in ourselves, in our skills, that our knowledge and contingent is also strong. In autumn we fall them into their 2 shoulders in order to indicate, we are able to stop anyone. Our guest in Madrid showed that we can achieve feats away too.

 

-They helped a great jacket on you in the Sparkassen Arena 2 months ago...

-Because of the reasons I said. At that time we believed in ourselves rarely, which foreshadowed that the 'Zebras' can offer with their usual hellish fast and aggressive handball. Because they are able to speed up their production and because of it their play becomes almost impossible to follow, and it is unable to keep their shooters far from the gate. We had planty of bad decisions, that was the reason of that we got a serious defeat. That time's difference between the parties is not realistic. The German record champion (had been founded in 1904) is the best team of the world and it is because the players believe, that their Icelandic coach suggest in them, 'They are the best'.

 

 

-They do not disheveled us at the weekend, as they did in February, sure?

- In the first meeting we will only have a chance if we work as a team, in case we can get out with a surprise there. Huge battles, incredible fight ahead of us. May prove to be decisive the difference between the production of back players and goalkeepers. It is also important that fast breaks have to be controlled, and our defence and attacks must be considerate and tactful.We must not take their fast rythm. We are familiar with their variations, but it is hard to find a response. We will fall into an error if we are appealed to that their mini world-selection played a lot of fast meetings in this season and because of it maybe they are slower and more tired and probably clog their motivation. In a word: if we bring the best of our knowledge, our concentration is approaching to the perfect, we can compete with them. There is no fairy tale, we need to beat them, the defeat and the relegation did not even turn in my head. Many people would compromise in unseen with a close 'somersault', which would not be a disaster, but a victory is hovering in front of my eyes.

 

 

-You say it despite of the Kiel manages annual 9,5 million Euros budget, 17-time German Champion, 9-time German Cup Winner, 7-time German Super Cup gold medalist, 3-time EHF Champion League winner and 3-time EHF Cup 1st ranked. There are stares in it's contingent among others, the French Thierry Omeyer and Daniel Narcisse, Serbian Marko Vujin and Momir Ilic, Icelandic Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson, Swedish Marcus Ahlm, and the Czech Filip Jicha?

-I can ensure everyone that we won't 'make music' so false in Kiel like we did it 2 months ago. Therefore it is worth remembering that in the sign 'B' death-gruop they ended behind of us and we beat them in the autumn. In this season our opponent is not so steely as it was previously. In the Bundes-league already lost 7 points as list-leader. In our contingent also there are class players who experienced great battles, and their hands don't shake in intense situations. We prepared from them fairly, we wait the two 60 minutes 'war' in which anything can happen. Then it is not a negligible factor that in the Kiel hall is not in a mood like in Veszprem Arena. Here the fans force us into success, even more fantastic vibe in the clashes.

 

 

-However, which groups make the continent's elite up?

- Without the current scenario: MKB Veszprem KC and THW Kiel, FC Barcelona Intersport and HSV Hamburg.

 

 

-It will be a unique "experience" to come back to Kiel from another aspect too for You.

 

- Thank to God, there are only passing bad memory of my injury happened in the away match in February, when I fell to my elbow, which hit me in the kidney. Although it is not cracked, the catheter was introduced into my body is vital to reduce bruising. After the urine was very bloody, and I could enjoy the 'hospitality' in the hospital in Kiel and Veszprem too. But for more than a week I can do my work at full intensity.

 

 

-And You have scored goals in the Hungarian Cup matches at the weekend.

- In the semi-final against KK Csurgó I scored just one goal, as I did it in the finale against Pick Szeged. I confess that I am not in top form physically , but it is improving day by day. For this reason, I'd prefer if the Champions League quarter-finals are organized in the beginning of May. Fortunately, I'm not fragile, the last time was five years ago when I got to the list of injured, I was an employee of the CB Ciudad de Logrono and I broke my ankle. But as I heard recently the Champions League title defender also won the German Cup finals against SG Flensburg-Handewitt (33-30).

 

 

- In the end a sport-free siding. You moved to us from one of the most beautiful metropolis of the world? Do you like Veszprem?

- Believe it or not, I do not like the crowded cities, when I belonged to the Catalans I lived in the coastal part of the city called Barcelona Gava. When I think about it, Veszprém is perfect place for me, where transport is simple, the Betekints Valley is beautiful and Lake Balaton is near the city, but the beauty of Budapest is also caught me. I can only sing odes about the Hungarian foods: the goulash, garlic- and cheese-cream soups, the roast duck, the pithy with toast, the sponge cake somló style... I can not get enough of them. So, here I am in the right place.

 

 

 

Made by Ferenc Király

Translated by Gergő Aranyi