The handball players are in a labor dispute – even world handball player Mikkel Hansen with the Protest. He fears that his Sport from collapsing under the growing burden soon.

Joachim Mölter

How to put the athletes under pressure, white, Mikkel Hansen, is part of his profession. The 31-year-old basketball Pro is a playmaker, he conducts his in addition to people, the pass to follow, which bring the opposing defender in motion, so until your defenses laminated tear somewhere. Then a team-mate or often even Hansen himself pushes – in the gap and throws on target. If the right-handed Hansen throws, he does it with extraordinary force and rapidity. The Dane is known as “Mikkel with the whip hands” in the scene, famous.

a few weeks Ago, Hansen has been for the third Time as the best handball player of the world award; in January, he has led the selection of his country for the first title of world champion, Olympic champion and European champion he was. Only a few enemy defenses so put pressure on him, but now he feels even a barely yield to pressure: Like many of his colleagues, Hansen fears that he breaks down under the increasing burden in the Sport soon.

Hansen is sent to the most prominent face of the campaign

The complete international football prominence has at least a sports one-time cry for help in the world. The players ‘ Union JERSEYS (European Handball Players Union) became widespread on Wednesday a 1:43 minute long Video on the social media channels Twitter and Instagram under the Hashtag #DontPlayThePlayers – plays with the players. The appeal is addressed to the sports officials, the grafting is always more play dates in the calendar, and so, ultimately, with the health of the professionals play. Their core demand more rest breaks in between the games justified Hansen: “With several days of rest, we ensure that the players are physically prepared and thus is your Maximum on the pitch.”

Mikkel Hansen is with his full beard and his shoulder-length mane, which he keeps control of the match, with a headband in check, the most prominent face of the campaign, but it is the most well-known representatives of all the leading football Nations on the diving there, in a rare show of Unity – Norwegians, Swedes, Spaniards, Croats, Icelanders, men and women. The Frenchman Nikola Karabatić with power, as Hansen three times world handball player, Olympic champion, world and Europe champion, the Romanian Cristina Neagu, four-time world player of the year. From Germany Uwe gensheimer, captain of the national team, and Patrick Wiencek, the captain of Champions Kiel. All the worry, the required workload has not grown together, to be in the mills of the game operation is rubbed off.

In the Handball leading-edge forces in 80 games or more per year with their clubs in national leagues and international competitions with their national teams at global or continental tournaments. At the world Cup in January, the players that fought for the medals at the end of ten games in 18 days, had – and some had to travel in also in four different cities. In the face of these hardships, the idea for the Video.

The issue of Congestion is not new in football, almost every person has said something in the last decade. What is new is that the players have done together, even the top earners like Hansen and Karabatić, probably the single income of the millionaires in basketball. The situation is now escalating dramatically, because all the League organisations and umbrella organisations inflate their competitions, to generate more money through TV rights and sponsors. The Euro 2020 will be increased from 16 to 24 participants, the world Cup 2021 from 24 to 32 Teams – and the tournaments are expected to last a day longer. And in between, in the summer of 2020, the Olympic games in Tokyo. No wonder that even the most powerful men of the 1,96 Meter Mikkel Hansen groan.