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“For every Hungarian” » What the Hungarian player could say, after sending the Romanian national team home

Article by Maria Olteanu – Published on Thursday, 04 December 2025, 11:27 / Updated on Thursday, 04 December 2025 11:28

The Hungarian national team respected its favorite status and won the key duel against Romania on Wednesday evening, from the main group I of the Women's Handball World Championship, score 34-29. After the match, the Hungarian players they admitted that they treated the match a little differently than any other game, given the rivalry between the two neighboring countries.

At the end of the match won by the Hungarians, who reached the 6th place in the ranking and who took a serious option to qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition, Petra Vamos (25 years old), scorer of 5 goals in the game against Romania, admitted that for her, the rest of her colleagues and every Hungarian matches against the “tricolor” national team are a little more important than any others.

Petra Vamos admitted that Hungary gave more than 100% against Romania

“For every Hungarian, a match like this is a bit more important than all the others! We felt it internally, but what really motivated us was that the match was almost like a final, for qualification to the next stage.

We prepared for them by watching footage of their match against Denmark. We wanted to open up their defensive wall around the back three, we saw that there could be spaces from Petra Tovizi's movements and we tried to score.

Everything worked well, we missed a few shots in the first half, but everything we discussed worked,” said Petra Vamos after Wednesday night's match, according to nemzetisport.hu.

PHOTO: Ionuț Iordache / GSP

In the first half, except for the last 10 minutes, everything went according to plan. The system screeched, a few blurry moments. Romania came over us, we played slower, we were not so vertical. We also had a few eliminations, they came back into the game.

The important thing is that I was better than Romania from a physical and mental point of view. At one point, Romania had 3 consecutive attacks to equalize. We escaped, scored twice, calmed down and managed to win

– Vladimir Golovin, the Hungarian coach

Romania's results and program in the main group

  • December 3 » Hungary – Romania: 34-29

  • December 5, 16:30 » Romania – Senegal

  • December 7, 19:00 » Switzerland – Romania

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