“They made me proud to be Romanian”

• Reporter Adrian Jitea and photojournalist Ionuț Iordache are in Rotterdam with the Romanian national team and will transmit all the information and images that matter.

• The last match in the group will be Romania – Denmark, Monday, December 1, from 21:30, liveTEXT on GSP.ro.

Romania had an excellent start to the Women's Handball World Championship, beating Croatia and Japan and has a very good morale before the derby with Denmark, the main favorite of group A.

Constantin Din, the celebrant of Saturday, full of optimism: “We can beat any team”

The confrontation with Japan was difficult, the Asian girls managed, through an atypical game, to make Ovidiu Mihăilă's students uncomfortable. However, the tricolors remained in control and won 31-27, giving a present to Constantin Din, the president of FRH, on his birthday.

“Honestly, they made me proud to be Romanian. I am very happy. They showed attitude, even value. I have believed for a long time in the value of this team and not only in the value of this team, but in the value of Romanian handball,” said the head of Romanian handball, according to Handbal Mania.

“We really have talented athletes, they work quite well. I believe that we who are around athletes should be better than that to be able to give them an even better perspective to achieve performanceDin added.

When asked how he will celebrate his birthday, the FRH president answered as follows:

“There will certainly be good cheer, but with balancebecause it's the start of the world championship. We still have a lot of games ahead of us and we have to be fit.”

At the end, Din spoke about what's next for the Romanian women's national team.

“I was optimistic, I am optimistic. I have also stated in various press conferences that we have a valuable team and even if we, in the federation, in the technical department, have set a goal, places 1-10, I, myself, and I have announced this, I believe very much in the value of this team. With a bit of flair and a goal that has proven to be very good so far, we can beat any team“, concluded the former international referee.

Romania's squad for the World Championship:

• Goalkeepers: Iulia Dumanska (Minaur), Bianca Curmentă (Corona Brașov), Elena Şerban (Danurea Brăila)

• Far right: Sonia Seraficeanu (Gloria Bistrița), Mihaela Mihai (CSM Bucharest)

• Inter right: Alicia Gogîrla (SCM Craiova)

• COORDINATOR: Rebeca Necula (Rm. Vâlcea), Alisia Boiciuc (Corona Brașov), Andreea Popa (Brăila Danube), Elena Roșu (Brăila Danube), Cristina Laslo (Gloria Bistrița)

• pivot: Lorena Ostase (Gloria Bistrita), Sonia Vasiliu (Slatina), Asma Elghaoui (Rm. Vâlcea)

• Enter left: Sorina Grozav (Corona Brașov), Maryia Skrobic (Rapid)

• Far left: Gabriela Dumitrascu (Corona Brașov), Eva Kerekes (Gloria Bistrița)

The program in the Romania group: