Today, Romania faces Norway, the world and European champion, on the way to the Final Four of the EHF Euro Cup

Before the return match with Norway in the EHF Euro Cup, Romania is in 2nd place in the group with 6 points and if it does not lose the match with the Scandinavian team, the tricolors will qualify for the Final Four of the competition.

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The national team trained by Ovidiu Mihăilă met on April 5 in Bucharest, is staying at the Marriott hotel and yesterday participated for about 20 minutes at the “Romanian Handball Gala”, which took place in the same location.

For today's match with Norway, coach Ovidiu Mihăilă does not have Rebeca Necula, Andreea Popa and Maryia Skrobic at his disposal, who are injured. Also missing from the team is Yulia Dumanska, who was invited due to some personal problems.

• A possible first “7” for Romania: Curment, Szoke, Grozav, Boiciuc, Roșu, Seraficeanu, Ostase.

“We are meeting the best team in the world, but I hope we will have a good match and cause problems for the world champions. They also have weak points and we will try to take advantage of them to win,” said coach Ovidiu Mihăilă.

Nora Mork and Vilde Ingstad return to Bucharest!

However, coach Ole Gustav Gjekstad came to Bucharest with the best team, which does not lack stars Henny Reistad, Nora Mork, Stine Skogrand or Vilde Insgstad.

In the tour match played in Larvik and won by Norway with 29-27, the best player in the world, Henny Reistad scored 10 goals from as many throws.

Olympic, world and European champions, Norway are unbeaten in 19 matches. The last time the Scandinavian team lost was on March 8, 2025, in a match against the Netherlands, 30-32. Norway is the most successful women's team with 35 medals won at major competitions, including 18 gold.

The Nordic national team won the Olympic title 3 times, the world gold 5 times and the gold medals 10 times at the European Championships.

• A likely first '7' for Norway: Raasok, Wollik, Rushfeldt, Reistad, Skogrand, Hovden, Ingstad.

Romania returns to Bucharest after 8 years!

The Romanian women's national team returns to the Polyvalent Hall in Bucharest after 8 years.

Romania last played in the Multipurpose Hall in 2018 on the occasion of the 50th edition of the Carpathian Trophy, a competition in which Russia, Serbia and Romania also participated with the A and B teams.

Romania was coached by Martin Ambros and won the tournament, after winning the final, score 33-24, with Romania B.

Interestingly, the final was refereed by Constantin Din and Sorin Dinu, the current leaders of FRH and opponents in the April 24 presidential election.