– I’m tied into, it hurts, and my toes are orange, tells Nikolaj Jacobsen in the phone, while suddenly drifting an internal message out in the Baden-Württembergske evening air:
– I must have it there. Without the mushroom!
the Appetite of other than pain are therefore turned back at Nikolaj Jacobsen, who for years have been suffering with two bad knees: A worn and very worn.
on Friday morning, he was operated in the so-called ’good’ right knee following an injury sustained in battle. Not in the time as an asset for THW Kiel, but on the sidelines as the head coach of Rhein-Neckar Löwen in the Champions League draw against Kielce on Wednesday last week.
– I don’t know what I was doing. At least, it was a wrong move along the way, and after the fight I got severe pain on the inside of the right knee. It is not so good. I really hope the knee is better now, and finally made it so sore that I almost couldn’t go, says national coach from the couch at home in Leimen.
He met Friday morning at. seven into the clinic and got rid of 40 percent of an inside meniscus, cut a section of the outer colleague and at the same time removed two mice, there have been swum around inside a worn knee in several seasons.
At 11 o’clock he was home again – wearing two crutches that become solid companions for the next 10-14 days.
– But I’m hopefully fit for fight, when we play the next match against Wetzlar on Thursday, 14. march, says dobbeltjobberen, which skips the last group match in the Champions League in Barcelona in the morning.
– We end up probably as the five in the group no matter what, as the Barcelona match is not as important. So fit it is fine to have the procedure now, since we have this rare break in the Bundesliga, explains fynboen.
From a previous Champions League match against Kiel. On Wednesday last week it went wrong in a showdown against the Polish Kielce. Photo: Lars Poulsen
the WORLD cup-guldvinderen from January so can spend the time to mull over the near future for his club team, for the first time in his tenure as the boss is lagging a little.
the Rhein-Neckar is not at the forefront of any tournament. The germans were knocked out in the pokalkvartfinalen, halser after a draw on Thursday in the HC Erlangen two points after THW Kiel on the Bundesligaens second place, and so were the Final 4 in the Champions League an obvious target.
– It has been, but you just have to say, that with a view to meeting Barcelona or Paris, if we qualify us for the quarter-finals, it looks reasonably heavy. We must just realize, that we were not skilled enough to beat Vardar Skopje at home, and in the Bundesliga Kiel a much easier slutprogram than us, says Nikolaj Jacobsen.
– Therefore, we are forced to dampen expectations, although second place in the league is within reach. It was completely idiotic, we threw a point away on Thursday evening, and the situation is rather special for this club. This is the first time in four years, we are not quite at the finish line before the last round in the league, but perhaps it is also very healthy, thinks Nikolaj Jacobsen.
– It has been stressful for the players to play at extremely high level in several seasons where we have been famous for to be the best playing teams not just in the league – but certainly also in Europe. We must after the break work with to further develop the team for next season, says the man, who is leaving the club this summer to move back home and become a coach full-time.
And there it lags, as you know, not…
It was a happy Nikolaj Jacobsen, who received the people’s tribute with the men’s team, as Denmark won the WORLD cup on home soil in Herning. Video: Jonas Olufson
Handball – 1. mar. 2019 – at. 12:34 the Danish WORLD cup team coach on the operating table
