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TEAMS:
1. Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea
2. Randers HK
3. Hypo NÖ
4. Buxtehuder SV
Expert Grit Jurack says:
There’s no doubt who the favourites are in this group - in my opinion Vâlcea will march through
the Group Matches with six victories. The most important task for new coach Jakob Vestergaard
will be to establish a pecking order in his big squad, as everybody wants to play as much as
possible. But I think that Jakob will manage to solve this luxury problem.
Once again Hypo have a strong team. Every year people write them off, but once again this
season they have managed to build an exotic team that will probably prove successful. My
former team-mate Gorica Aćimović will play a decisive role among all those Brazilians.
Randers have a completely new team and will need some time to get together as a unit, as they
lost many key players.
Buxtehuder SV is the underdog in this group, but might be able to challenge some of the
favourites, especially when their currently injured stars Stefanie Melbeck and Isabell Klein are
back on track.
So Vâlcea will clearly dominate this group, and all others will be fighting for the second spot for
the Main Round, with small advantages for Randers and Hypo.
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2012/13 Women's European Cup EHF Champions League
Group Matches
Group A
matches
won
draw
lost
goal-difference
points
1
ROU
Oltchim Rm. Valcea
0
0
0
0
0:0
0
0
2
DEN
Randers HK
0
0
0
0
0:0
0
0
3
AUT
Hypo NÖ
0
0
0
0
0:0
0
0
4
GER
Buxtehuder SV
0
0
0
0
0:0
0
0
MatchID: 201312020103001
ROU
Oltchim Rm. Valcea
14.10.2012 19:00
vs.
AUT
Hypo NÖ
Ramnicu Valcea / ROU
Del.: Mulleners BEL
002
DEN
Randers HK
15.10.2012 19:00
vs.
GER
Buxtehuder SV
Randers / DEN
Del.: Guerrero ESP
003
GER
Buxtehuder SV
20.10.2012 15:00
004
AUT
005
DEN
006
GER
008
AUT
007
ROU
010
GER
009
AUT
012
DEN
011
ROU
vs.
AUT
Hypo NÖ
vs.
GER
Buxtehuder SV
vs.
DEN
Randers HK
vs.
DEN
Randers HK
vs.
ROU
Oltchim Rm. Valcea
vs.
AUT
Hypo NÖ
vs.
GER
Buxtehuder SV
Randers / DEN
Oltchim Rm. Valcea
18.11.2012 19:00
Oltchim Rm. Valcea
Maria Enzersdorf / AUT
Randers HK
18.11.2012 15:00
ROU
Hamburg / GER
Hypo NÖ
11.11.2012 17:00
vs.
Ramnicu Valcea / ROU
Buxtehuder SV
11.11.2012 15:00
Randers HK
Maria Enzersdorf / AUT
Oltchim Rm. Valcea
04.11.2012 19:30
DEN
Hamburg / GER
Hypo NÖ
03.11.2012 20:25
vs.
Randers / DEN
Buxtehuder SV
28.10.2012 15:00
Oltchim Rm. Valcea
Maria Enzersdorf / AUT
Randers HK
27.10.2012 15:00
ROU
Hamburg / GER
Hypo NÖ
20.10.2012 20:25
vs.
Ramnicu Valcea / ROU
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EHF Report | 10.05.2012 12:40 | 1/4
CS OLTCHIM
RÂMNICU VÂLCEA
(Romania)
Qualification for the Women´s EHF Champions
League 2012/13 season: Romanian
champions
Season Preview:
Some call it a world selection, others say that
this is the best squad that has ever participated
in the Women’s EHF Champions League – and
the club itself has set the bar as high as possible:
‘We want to win our first ever title in the
Champions League’ is the clear message of
Vâlcea.
With six world-class newcomers and a new
coach, who has already won the EHF
Champions League, Oltchim are one of the
major candidates to win the title in May.
Even though their previous squad reached the
semi-finals last season and the final in 2010,
the Romanian record champions have
strengthened their roster in extraordinary
fashion. Olympic top scorer Katarina Bulatović
has transferred from defending Women´s EHF
Champions League winners Budućnost, and
former world handball player of the year,
Allison Pineau, and superb goalkeeper
Amandine Leynaud arrived from Metz
(France). The best goalkeeper (by number of
saves) in the Olympic tournament, Silvia
Navarro has arrived from 2011 Spanish EHF
Champions League finalists Itxako, as has top
shooter, Alexandrina Barbosa.
The new coach is Dane Jakob Vestergaard, who
had won the Women´s EHF Champions League
trophy twice with Danish side Viborg HK.
Vestergaard is the successor of Radu Voina.
Montenegrin newcomer and defending winner
Bulatović is confident that the newly-built team
will fit. "I have no doubt that we will integrate as
soon as possible and when the Champions
League starts we will be in good shape. We
expect our supporters to be close to us like an
eighth player and we will do our best to win all
games and out on a good show for them," she
said.
Club address:
Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea
Str. Uzinei Nr. 1
240007 Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania
Contact numbers:
Tel. +40-250-730755
Fax. +40-250-730928
Email: [email protected]
Arena:
"Traian" Sport Hall
Str.Nicolae Balcescu Nr.24
240190 Ramnicu Vâlcea, Romania
Capacity: 3000
OR Transilvania, Sibiu
Octavian Goga 2, Sibiu, Romania
Capacity: 1800
Media contact:
Nicolae Luca, +40 724121121
[email protected]
Online:
Club website: www.cs-oltchim.com
ehfCL.com
EHF Champions League:
Participations (including 2012/13 season): 14
Finalists: 2010
Semi-finalists: 2009, 2012
Last 32: 2000
Main Round: 2008, 2011
Group Phase/Champions League: 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999, 2001
Cup Winners´ Cup:
Winners: 2007
Finalists: 2002
Romanian champions: 18 titles(1989, 1990,
1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012)
Romanian Cup winners: 14 titles
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The squad
No.
79
32
86
5
17
71
12
6
22
18
16
8
7
77
13
9
30
19
79
32
First Name
Aurelia
Katarina
Alexandrina
Iulia Vasilica
Ramona Petruta
Marija
Amandine Suzanne Monique
Iuliia
Oana Andreea
Adina Laura
Silvia
Cristina Georgiana
Adriana Nicoleta
Allison Marie
Nicoleta
Ionela
Paula Claudia
Ekaterina Vladimirovna
Aurelia
Katarina
Family Name
Bradeanu
Bulatovic
Cabral Barbosa
Curea
Farcau
Jovanovic
Leynaud
Managarova
Manea
Meirosu
Navarro Gimenez
Neagu
Nechita
Pineau
Safta
Stanca
Ungureanu
Vetkova
Bradeanu
Bulatovic
•
•
•
•
Position
Centre Back
Right Back
Left Back
Left Wing
Left Wing
Left Back
Goalkeeper
Right Wing
Line Player
Left Back
Goalkeeper
Left Back
Right Wing
Centre Back
Line Player
Line Player
Goalkeeper
Line Player
Centre Back
Right Back
Date of Birth Weight Height
5.5.1979
72
180
15.11.1984
75
186
5.5.1986
65
175
8.4.1982
62
172
14.7.1979
62
170
26.12.1985
75
182
2.5.1986
70
178
27.9.1988
59
170
18.4.1985
75
176
11.8.1985
74
182
20.3.1979
60
170
26.8.1988
66
180
14.11.1983
63
172
2.5.1989
73
180
17.11.1994
72
180
9.1.1981
73
176
30.3.1980
77
181
1.8.1986
75
182
5.5.1979
72
180
15.11.1984
75
186
Left the club (including new club):
New signings (including former club):
•
Nat.
ROU
MNE
POR
ROU
ROU
MNE
FRA
UKR
ROU
ROU
ESP
ROU
ROU
FRA
ROU
ROU
ROU
RUS
ROU
MNE
•
•
Katarina Bulatović (Buducnost
Podgorica/MNE),
Allison Pineau (Metz Handball/FRA),
Amandine Leynaud (Metz
Handball/FRA),
Alexandrina Barbosa (Grupo Asfi
Itxako Navarra/ESP)
Silvia Navarro (Grupo Asfi Itxako
Navarra/ESP)
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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Valentina Ardean Elisei (pregnant),
Daniela Babeanu (S.C.M.
Craiova/ROU),
Oana Chirila (pregnant),
Melinda Geiger – H.C.M. Baia
Mare/ROU),
Roxana Han (S.C.M. Craiova/ROU),
Sanela Knezović (Dunaujvaros/HUN),
Yeliz Özel (Uskudar BSK
Istanbul/TUR),
Mihaela Smedescu (H.C.M. Baia
Mare/ROU),
Talida Tolnai (Uskudar BSK
Istanbul/TUR)
Key players
Allison Pineau:
Aged only 18, Pineau made her debut in the French women’s national
team. Born in Paris, she switched to former top club Metz very early.
Pineau is not only a playmaker, but also a brilliant shooter and has
enjoyed her major successes with the national team. In 2009 she won
a silver medal at the World Championships, and one year later she
was awarded World Handball Player of the Year 2010. In 2011 she
led the French team to the semi-final of the world championships
again, but suffered a torn crucial ligament which put her out of action
for some time and without Pineau, France missed gold again. After
playing exclusively for French clubs up to that point, the playmaker
dared to transfer to Vâlcea – together with her team-mate from Metz,
Amandine Leynaud, and winning the Women’s EHF Champions
League with her new club is her main aim.
Silvia Navarro:
The goalkeeper is one of the main reasons behind the Spanish
successes at the previous major tournaments, helping to deny the
opposition at the world championship 2011 and the Olympic Games
2012, when Spain won bronze. The 32-year-old started her career at
Mar Valencia before transferring to Itxako – and was Women’s EHF
Champions League finalist with both clubs. With Itxako she also won
the EHF Cup in 2010. Now Navarro is hoping for her first ever
Champions League trophy in Vâlcea in her first season at the
Romanian champions.
Katarina Bulatović:
Like Pineau and Navarro, Bulatović is a newcomer at Oltchim. The
Serbian born left-handed shooter arrives from defending champions
Budućnost Podgorica. After several attempts she made it to the EHF
Champions League final for the first time in May, where her eight goals
helped decide the second leg against Györi. And shortly after that
success, Bulatović was a key player in Montenegro’s biggest
achievement ever, when she was top scorer at the Olympic Games in
London and helped secure the silver medal – the first ever Olympic
medal for the small Balkan country.
Coach
Jakob Vestergaard:
Vestergaard knows how to win the Women’s EHF Champions League:
During his time at Danish side Viborg HK from 2008 to 2011, the 37year-old twice won the trophy, in 2009 and 2010. After leaving
Viborg, he coached Aalborg and was assistant coach at Champions
League participants FC Midtjylland, but he is aiming to go all the way to
the final with Vâlcea.
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RANDERS HK
(Denmark)
Qualification for the Women´s EHF Champions
League 2012/13 season: Danish champions
Season Preview:
Their biggest success was tinged with sadness
as Randers HK celebrated winning last season's
Danish championship, with some of their key
players choosing to end their careers on a high.
In 2010 and 2011 Randers had reached the
Danish finals but lost against Viborg and
Midtjylland one year later. But in 2012, they
went all the way. However, two Danish legends
had played their last match: Katrine Fruelund,
twice Olympics champion, and Mette Melgaard
finished their career, becoming Danish
champions.
Fruelund is now involved with the
management of Randers HK, which also won
the EHF Cup in 2010. As well as them, the
German duo of Nina Wörz and Susann Müller
left to join Krim Mercator in Slovenia.
“It was a brilliant experience to become
champions with Randers before leaving, it was
a great feeling not only for me, but for the
whole team,” said Wörz looking back.
In total nine players left Randers, but seven
newcomers arrived in the city of the 2013 EHF
European Beach championships, including two
international stars: French double world
championship runners-up Siraba Dembele and
Macarena Aguilar, 2011 EHF Champions
League finalist with Itxako and Olympic bronze
medallist with Spain.
So coach Jan Leslie has to build-up a new team
which hopes to proceed for the Main Round for
the first time in their third appearance in the
EHF Champions League. While the club
management almost all agree that the group
will be won by Vâlcea, the remaining three
teams of Randers, Buxtehude and Hypo are all
fairly equal and will have to fight for the second
spot in the Main Round.
Club address:
Randers HK
Sjaellandsgade 57
8900 Randers
Denmark
Contact numbers:
Tel: +45-51-867722
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
Arena:
Skyline - Elro Arena Randers
Fyensgade 1
8900 Randers, Denmark
Capacity: 3000
OR
NRGI Atletion Arena
Stadion Alle 70
8000 Arhus, Denmark
Capacity: 4549
Media contact:
Anett Reinholdt
+45 40892606 [email protected]
Online:
Club website: www.randershk.dk
Facebook: randershk
ehfCL.com
Club achievements:
EHF Champions League:
Participations (including 2012/13 season): 3
Group Phase: 2011, 2012
EHF Cup:
Winner: 2010
City Cup:
Finalist: 2000
Danish champions: 2012 (Runners-up: 2010,
2011)
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The squad
No.
22
2
5
10
13
18
20
17
8
16
14
3
21
23
15
11
25
6
1
4
First Name
Stine Bonde
Ulrika
Macarena
Gitte Evendorff
Kamilla Hvid
Nanna Skjodt
Camilla
Siraba
Rikke
Sisse Marie Boge
Cecilie Morch
Sabina Rosengren
Mathilde Skov
Emilie Thanning Strangholt
Sofie Strangholt
Berit Hudtloff
Sarah Brüner
Freja Cohrt
Chana Franciela
Simone Antonia
Family Name
Aagaard
Ågren
Aguilar Diaz
Andersen
Andersen
Bugge
Dalby
Dembele
Enevoldsen
Fahlberg
Hansen
Jacobsen
Jensen
Johansen
Johansen
Kristensen
Kristensen
Kyndbol
Masson De Souza
Pedersen
Nat.
DEN
SWE
ESP
DEN
DEN
DEN
DEN
FRA
DEN
DEN
DEN
SWE
DEN
DEN
DEN
DEN
DEN
DEN
BRA
DEN
Position
Goalkeeper
Line Player
Centre Back
Right Wing
Left Back
Right Wing
Right Back
Left Wing
Line Player
Goalkeeper
Centre Back
Left Back
Line Player
Right Back
Left Back
Centre Back
Left Wing
Left Wing
Goalkeeper
Right Wing
Date of Birth Weight Height
2.6.1988
67
175
13.7.1987
71
178
12.3.1985
65
170
21.7.1989
65
172
22.4.1993
68
178
10.9.1993
60
170
15.5.1988
73
182
28.6.1986
65
172
26.7.1995
68
176
2.7.1993
74
175
8.12.1993
67
175
24.3.1989
75
181
4.8.1993
67
173
4.8.1990
72
182
15.12.1992
67
176
2.8.1983
68
172
15.4.1993
63
168
20.1.1994
63
170
18.12.1978
75
182
8.4.1993
60
170
Left the club (including new club):
New signings (including former club):
• Ulrika Ågren (Team Esbjerg),
• Siraba Dembele (Toulon),
• Freja Cohrt (FC Midtjylland, Sabina
Jacobsen (Lugi),
• Macarena Aguilar (Itxako Navarro),
• Sara Brüner (youth team Randers HK),
• Cecilie Hansen (youth team Randers
HK)
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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Mette Melgaard (retired),
Mie Augustesen (Thüringer,
Gitte Aaen (Søndermarken - 2.
division),
Katrine Fruelund (retired),
Nina Wörz (Krim), Susann Müller
(Krim),
Stephanie Andersen (Silkeborg-Voel
KFUM),
Simone Böhme (Silkeborg-Voel
KFUM),
Veronica Cuadrado (KIF Vejen)
Key players
Siraba Dembele:
French left winger Dembele is playing her first season for the
Danish champions after gaining EHF Champions League experience
at her former club Toulon. In the season before the 26-year-old
played for Issy Paris – but has now made the step to leave France
for the first time. Nicknamed “the princess”, Dembele has played
for the national team for six years in more than 150 international
matches, winning world championship silver twice and EHF EURO
bronze once. She is an expert in counter-attacks and special
defence tasks.
Chana Masson:
Masson was one of the first Brazilian players to move to Europe.
The 34-year-old goalkeeper started her European career in Spain
where she played for Elche and Ferrobus Mislata, before
transferring to Denmark for the first time, to FC København. She
then moved to German side HC Leipzig for two years before
returning to Denmark, – and since then she has been a rock for
Randers. Masson was awarded best goalkeeper at the 2011 world
championship in her home-country, and helped Brazil become fivetime Pan American champions as well as participate at three
Olympic Games. At club level she has become national champion in
every country she played (Brazil, Spain, Germany, Denmark) and
won the EHF Cup twice with Mislata in 2000 and Randers in 2010.
Macarena Aguilar:
With nearly 150 more international caps than any of her teammates, Aguilar is one of the most experienced players in the Spanish
national team. Now the playmaker has left her home country for the
first time to be part of the Randers team. Aguilar started her career at
Sagunto, and after winning many domestic titles in eight years, she
transferred to Itxako in 2009 and became Women’s EHF
Champions League 2011 finalists. With the Spanish national team
she was a EHF EURO silver medallist 2008 and world championship
and Olympic bronze medallist in 2011 and 2012.
Coach
Jan Leslie:
Leslie is head coach of Randers HK for the fifth season and led his
team to the first ever Danish championship title in 2012 after
ranking second below Viborg and Midtjylland in the previous
seasons. The experienced 41-year-old coached the women’s teams
in Esbjerg and Aalborg beforehand, as well as the men’s team at
Skjern.
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HYPO NÖ
(Austria)
Qualification for the Women´s EHF Champions
League 2012/13 season:Austrian champions
Season Preview:
After being eliminated during the Group
Matches of the EHF Champions League in the
past,
Austrian
Champions
Hypo
Niederösterreich are hoping for better luck this
season.
Club address:
Hypo NÖ
BSFZ Südstadt
Lise-Prokop-Platz 1
2344 Maria Enzersdorf
Austria
The Austrian outfit, who have many Brazilians
in their squad, have played in the EHF
Champions League for every one of the
competition's 20-year history.
Contact numbers:
Tel. +43-2236-908000
Fax. +43-2236-45389
Email: [email protected]
Four times the Women’s EHF Champions
League winner and six times a finalist, Hypo
nowadays count on a strong group of players
from Brazil. Four newcomers from the South
American country have signed for this season,
and despite three others - including top star
Daniela Piedade - having left, the club still have
eight Brazilians on their books.
Arena:
BSFZ Südstadt
Liese Prokop Platz 1
2344 Maria Enzersdorf, Austria
Capacity: 1100
Gorica Aćimović returned from Krim to Hypo
and is one of four Austrian players in the squad,
which is coached by Hungarian András Németh
who started his second season at the record
winners of the EHF Champions League. One of
the newcomers - Karol de Souza – is out until
October after she had broken her hand.
After failing to reach the Main Round in the
previous three seasons, Hypo hope to survive
the Group Matches this season, as player Ana
Paula Rodrigues confirms. "Our group is as
tough as last season, no one is to be
underestimated. Our goal is to reach the Main
Round and to be part of the Champions League
in 2013, especially after our early exit last
season," she said.
Media contact:
Mark Hegedüs +43 66460164600
[email protected]
Online:
Club website: www.hypo-noe.at
Facebook: hyponoe
ehfCL.com
EHF Champions League records:
Participations (including 2012/13 season): 20
Winners: 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000
Finalists: 1996, 2008
Semi-finalists: 1997, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009
Quarter-final: 2006
Group Phase/Champions League: 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012
Cup Winners´ Cup:
Finalists: 2004
Austrian champions: 36 titles
Austrian Cup winners: 25 titles
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The squad
No.
77
12
16
2
81
7
6
3
88
18
22
45
9
86
First Name
Gorica
Barbara
Petra
Fabiana
Deonise
Karoline Helena
Mirela
Alexandra
Mayara
Fernanda
Stefanie
Julia
Ana Paula
Bernadett
Family Name
Acimovic
Arenhart
Blazek
Carvalho Carneiro Diniz
Cavaleiro Fachinello
De Souza
Dedic
Do Nascimento
Fier de Moura
Franca da Silva
Kaiser
Mauler
Rodrigues
Temes
Nat.
AUT
BRA
AUT
BRA
BRA
BRA
AUT
BRA
BRA
BRA
AUT
AUT
BRA
HUN
Date of Birth
28.2.1985
4.10.1986
15.6.1987
13.5.1981
20.6.1983
24.4.1990
15.12.1991
16.9.1981
5.12.1986
25.9.1989
31.10.1992
18.2.1992
18.10.1987
15.5.1986
Weight
80
80
70
70
80
70
70
60
70
70
80
60
70
70
Height
186
182
182
184
180
180
169
179
168
177
181
168
172
177
Left the club (including new club):
New signings (including former club):
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Position
Left Back
Goalkeeper
Goalkeeper
Line Player
Right Back
Left Back
Left Wing
Right Wing
Right Back
Left Wing
Line Player
Right Wing
Centre Back
Centre Back
•
Julia Mauler (HYPO NÖ II)
Gorica Aćimović (Krim Ljubljana),
Karol de Souza (Siófok),
Mayara de Moura (Mios Biganos),
Dara Diniz (Bera Bera),
Mirela Dedic (HYPO NÖ II)
Deonise Cavaleiro (Itxako)
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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Francise De Morales Cararo
(pregnancy),
Sabrina Stumvoll (HYPO NÖ 2),
Daniela De Oliveira Piedade (Krim
Ljubljana),
Nina Stumvoll (HYPO NÖ 2),
Silvia Pinheiro (Toulon),
Viktória Rédei Soós (Györi Audi ETO),
Martina Goričanec (HYPO NÖ 2),
Samira Da Silva Rocha (Zvezda
Zvenigorod)
Key players
Barbara Arenhart:
Despite being just 26 year old, goalkeeper Arenhart has already
played handball across the globe in Brazil, Spain, Norway and Austria.
Born in Novo Hamburgo in Brazil, Arenhart started playing handball
very early in life and was a member of all age group squads for Brazil.
After becoming a member of the senior national team she transferred
to Spanish side Parc Sagunto, where she had her first taste of the
Women’s EHF Champions League. After a one-year move to
Norwegian side Byåsen Trondheim, Arenart arrived in South Vienna
to join the big community of Brazilian players. Her biggest success with
the national team was ranking fifth at the 2011 world championship.
Alexandra do Nascimento:
The 30-year-old right wing was the first Brazilian player to arrive at
Hypo NÖ, eight years ago. Since then do Nascimento has been a vital
part of the Hypo squad, reaching the Women’s EHF Champions
League final in 2008 and three times making it to the semi-finals with
the record-breaking Austrian champions. Nascimento has been part of
the Brazilian national team at three Olympic Games (2004, 2008,
2012) and also secured four Pan American champion titles. In 2011
she became top scorer in the world championship in her home
country, when her team ranked fifth. At Hypo, “Ale” has been the
captain for many years.
Gorica Aćimović:
Back to where it all started: Bosnian born Aćimović became an
Austrian citizen in 2007 and played a large number of international
matches for her new home country. The back court player (27) first
left Bosnia to move to Merignac in France, before arriving at Hypo in
2004 for the first time. In 2008 they were finalists in the EHF
Champions League, but lost both matches against Zvezda (Russia).
One year later she transferred to Viborg and fulfilled her ambition
when she won the Champions League trophy in 2010, against Valceă.
After becoming Danish champion, too, Aćimović went to Krim in
Slovenia in 2011 – but after just one season there she has returned to
Hypo.
Coach
András Németh:
In 1998, and later from 2005 to 2008, Németh was head coach of the
Hungarian women’s national team, and now the Hungarian is starting
his second season as coach at Hypo. Additionally Németh was coach of
top Hungarian team Ferencváros Budapest from 1993 to 2007 and
was very successful in European Cup competitions.
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BUXTEHUDER SV
(Germany)
Qualification for the Women´s EHF Champions
League 2012/13 season: Winners of
Qualification Tournament 2, German runnersup
Season Preview:
Despite being plagued by a long list of injuries,
Buxtehude hope to secure their first ever
points in the Women’s EHF Champions League.
They are no strangers to suffering injuries, but
Buxtehude have had more than their fair share
of bad luck in recent months which has left
coach Dirk Leun stunned. Firstly, team captain
Isabell Klein has been out for six months after
rupturing her crucial ligament in the EHF EURO
qualification match against Hungary in March.
She hopes to return for at least the last three
Group Matches.
Then Dutch line player Diane Lamein was out
with another severe knee injury. When
Buxtehude secured a shock victory in the
qualification tournament at Trondheim in the
final against host Byåsen, German international
Katja Langkeit left the field with another
ruptured crucial ligament, and three days later
playmaker Randy Bülau broke her foot in a
league match in Trier. Both will definitely not
be able to participate in any of the Group
Matches. Coach Dirk Leun said: "We have to
stand together now, we have to spread the
responsibility on even more shoulders, even
though the number of shoulders we have is
very low."
Buxtehude - the team of all 16 in the Women´s
EHF Champions League with the fewest
changes to their roster - have qualified for the
second straight time for the Group Matches by
winning their qualification tournament. Like
the previous year they were very close to
becoming German champions for the first time
in their club’s history, but just as they did in the
previous season, they missed out by just one
goal in the final play-off match against
Thüringer HC. In 2011/12 Buxtehude lost all
their six Group Matches, but maybe it is a good
omen that they have switched arena and will
play in the newly-built CU-Arena in Hamburg.
Club address:
Buxtehuder SV
Michael Jungblut
Brüningstrasse 11
21614 Buxtehude
Contact numbers:
Tel. :+49-171-8384892
Fax: +49-4161-704617
Email: [email protected]
Arena:
CU Arena Neugraben
Am Johannisland 2 -4, 21149
Hamburg- Neugraben/ Fischbek, Germany
Capacity: 2003
Media contact:
Handballmarketing, +49 416199461-0
[email protected]
Online:
Club website: www.bsv-live.de
Twitter: @ TeamBuxtehude
Facebook: Team-Buxtehude
ehfCL.com
Club achievements:
EHF Champions League:
Participations (including 2012/13 season): 2
Group Matches: 2012
Challenge Cup:
Winners: 2011
Finalists: 2002
Semi-finalists: 2005
City Cup:
Winners: 1994
German champions: - (runners-up: 2003, 2011,
2012)
German Cup winners: - (finalist: 1990, 1996,
2007, 2011)
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The squad
No.
8
2
20
7
23
9
3
11
16
13
17
18
12
20
5
11
77
14
19
17
15
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First Name
Randy
Marcella
Katja
Lone
Maxi
Isabell
Isabell
Vanessa
Jana
Diane
Sahra
Katja
Antje
Svenja
Friederike
Melissa
Stefanie
Sina
Jessica
Lisa
Jana
Josephine
Family Name
Bülau
Deen
Ex
Fischer
Hayn
Kaiser
Klein
Kohler
Krause
Lamein
Lamp
Langkeit
Lenz
Louwers
Lütz
Luschnat
Melbeck
Namat
Oldenburg
Prior
Stapelfeldt
Techert
Nat.
GER
NED
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
SUI
GER
NED
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
GER
Date of Birth
24.11.1981
19.6.1988
21.4.1985
8.9.1988
8.2.1988
24.7.1992
28.6.1984
28.11.1994
10.6.1987
18.10.1979
27.8.1991
22.11.1983
15.8.1988
2.1.1992
26.3.1988
17.7.1992
16.4.1977
14.4.1994
28.8.1991
29.12.1990
21.8.1986
15.5.1986
Weight
66
61
72
67
62
73
71
63
76
71
75
60
75
76
72
61
74
75
68
73
72
70
Left the club (including new club):
New signings (including former club):
•
Position
Centre Back
Line Player
Goalkeeper
Left Wing
Right Wing
Line Player
Right Back
Right Wing
Goalkeeper
Line Player
Left Back
Left Wing
Goalkeeper
Goalkeeper
Right Wing
Left Wing
Right Back
Line Player
Left Back
Centre Back
Centre Back
Right Back
•
Marcela Deen (SG Rosengarten)
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Height
168
173
175
165
166
173
172
172
186
173
175
170
181
186
175
170
178
183
182
172
178
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Key players
Stefanie Melbeck:
Germany-Denmark-Germany-Denmark-Germany
–
Stefanie
Melbeck (35) has been well travelled in handball over the last decade,
but during her spells in Germany she has only ever played for one
club - Buxtehuder SV. With 223 international caps Melbeck is the
most experienced player in the German national team. From 1999 to
2001 she played for her current Women’s EHF Champions League
opponent Randers HK in Denmark before returning to Buxtehude,
then – from 2007 to 2010 – she played for KIF Kolding before again
returning to Germany. With the national team she won the 2007
world championship bronze medal and was twice silver medallist in
the German beach handball team at the EHF EURO 2000 and the
World Championship 2001.
Isabell Klein:
Buxtehude team captain Isabell Klein (28) is currently fighting her
way back into the team following injury. Since March Klein, the wife of
German men’s national team player and three times VELUX EHF
Champions League winner Dominik Klein, has been out of action
after rupturing her crucial ligament. Born in Munich, she transferred to
Buxtehude in 2007 and thanks to her consistently high performances
on the right wing and at right back she made it into the national team
and has gone on to captain Germany too. Like her team-mate
Melbeck, Klein was a member of the German beach handball team
which won gold at the 2006 EHF EURO and silver at the 2006 world
championship.
Diane Lamein:
With 298 international matches so far, Lamein (32) holds the record
in the Dutch national team – but for the last decade the line player has
played for German clubs. After crossing the border she started at
Lützellinden before changing to Leverkusen, then to Oldenburg and in
2007 to Buxtehude. Lamein is a defence specialist but also a real
fighter in attack. Currently she is working hard on her comeback after a
knee injury. Her biggest success on the international stage was fifth at
the 2005 world championship and winning the EHF Challenge Cup
with Buxtehude in 2010.
Coach
Dirk Leun:
The former journalist (48) started his coaching career at German side
TV Mainzlar. Thanks to his ability to integrate young players in his
teams, he became coach of the German women’s junior national team
– and led those players to the biggest success ever in women’s
younger age categories in Germany when they became world
champions in 2008. After his gold medal he moved to Buxtehude,
where he is currently forming a new, young, but highly successful
team.
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