Big emotions for the “tricolor” in the Netherlands » Why was Romania's coach late for the match with Croatia
The match of the national team Romania against Croatia, from the Women's Handball World Championship, had a 10-minute late start. The game was supposed to start at 19:00 according to the schedule, but the starting whistle was at 19:10.
The GSP reporter present in the Netherlands at the Women's Handball World Cup reported from the scene that Ovidiu Mihăilă's national team arrived late to the match due to traffic.
Film of the events of Rotterdat: Romania was late for the match against Croatia
At 18:28, the “tricolors” were still not in the Rotterdam hall. At 18:32, the coach of the Romanian delegation arrived at the parking lot. Meanwhile, until the players arrived on the court, the organizers announced in the hall that the game would start 10 minutes later than the original schedule.
At 18:40, the Romanian players came out of the booths and started the warm-up in a hurry, to the applause of the 200 “tricolor” fans present in the Rotterdam Ahoy hall.
Romania had until 19:15 to reach the hall. Otherwise, he would have lost the match at the “green table” for not showing up.
40 minutes after GSP informed about the reason for the delegation's delay, the Romanian Handball Federation also made an official announcement regarding the delay.
The Romanian Handball Federation announces that the match between the National Team of Romania and the representative team of Croatia, scheduled for today, at 19:00, as part of the World Championship, will have a late start of approximately 10 minutes.
The reason for the delay is an unforeseen deviation from the route of the bus carrying the Romanian team to the hall, which led to the late arrival of our delegation.
– FRH statement
