I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.
Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.
I played handball up until I joined United, both as a goalkeeper and an outfield player.
With handball, you have soft facts but not hard facts. The shot is wide, and then suddenly, it's a penalty.
I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.
Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.
That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.
A handball is when your hand touches the ball.
My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.
In football I think if you don't have the intention to touch the ball and you have your arms in a natural position it is not handball.
I played team handball when I was a child. It is a very brutal sport.
I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.
Different techniques are now being used in futsal and handball. It's about timing more than anything else. Those little intricacies are slowly being picked up in the women's game - and it's kind of going unnoticed.
