Even before the handball super league returns to us tonight (Monday), a number of Legionnaires played this weekend as well as yesterday. In Switzerland we got an Israeli derby – runner-up Fadi Winterthur defeated Amisitia Zurich last night 24:31, in a meeting in which Restko Stojkovic, ex-Maccabi Rishon LeZion and owner of Israeli citizenship, scored 7 goals one hundred percent. Adir Cohen added two goals, and goalkeeper Yahav Shamir provided a game Another excellent that included 10 stops (including a penalty stop) at 42 percent, while in Zurich – Tomer Bodenheimer scored 3 goals with one hundred percent success.
In France, Sharbor last night defeated Nancy 30:34 in the second division in France, with Lior Gorman scoring 3 goals, and Dan Tepper providing 4 stops – including a penalty. In the senior league, Yoav Lambroso scored a goal and added two assists in Limoges’ equalizer, 31:31 against Pai d’Is. Chen Pomeranz (4 assists) and his Spanish team Puerto Segonto finished in 34:34 against Valladolid.
As mentioned, the Premier League will return to activity tonight, with the 12th round and penultimate games in the first round. This will happen close to a month and a half since the last round was played, which took place on December 28, in the week that is expected to determine the division of groups into the upper and lower house. At the same time, the Athens Women’s League will return to activity later this week. The games of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Ness Ziona and Ashdod, in which verified cases were discovered, were postponed.
Urban Rehovot – Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin (19:30). Rehovot, which closes the table, will try to get first points in Gil Segal’s debut game on the lines, and with the addition of center Matan Goltz, goalkeeper Lior Kaplan and Ukrainian midfielder Sergei Sulima. On the other hand, in Motzkin this will be a new debut for Nella Matic, the veteran and esteemed Serbian coach who returned to the club, and also for Patrick Uvina who moved after more than 11 seasons from MK Holon to the north.
Hapoel Kiryat Ono – AS Ramat Hasharon (20:00). Ono’s chance to qualify for the top house still exists, and she joined the youth team’s extremists in a project that ended in Portugal. Ron Weininger returns, and Roi Liebgut is loaned from Hapoel Rishon LeZion, after the talented Philippe Irovich (reserve player) chose to volunteer for a combat unit in the army. 22, 2.08 m). Ramat Hasharon, which has already secured first place at the end of the round, will try to return to the same pace and great ability it showed – and have given it 11 victories so far, and a perfect balance.
Maccabi Dimona – Maccabi Rishon LeZion (20:00). The two were supposed to meet Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ness Ziona (respectively), but after the games were postponed – the meeting between them was brought forward from the 13th round. Farewell to pivot Gaffer Khadzimirovic, who injured his hand in the Bosnian national team game and ended the season, was replaced by an pivot with an impressive record – this is Montenegrin international Bernaco Kankrash who previously played in the French top league and Champions League. Of Yotam Tal and Yuval Katz has already proven itself, that the team won two historic victories that improved its position at the bottom.
MK Holon – Hapoel Rishon LeZion (20:30). Holon is returning to a critical week for her, in the battle for a place in the upper house (when she is hosted in Herzliya on Friday, and next Monday she will hold the completion game in Dimona). Holon has brought back Nigerian midfielder Philip Kahlo and the players of the youth team who returned from the project in Portugal – Or Maman, Or Levy and Alon Shulman. Hapoel Rishon LeZion will strive to complete an excellent first round for it (it stands on a 1: 9 win balance), and reduce the gap to two points from Ramat Hasharon (which will be free in the next round).