“I achieved all my childhood dreams and even much more”: Nikola Karabatic assured that he had “no regrets, only happiness”, after ending his European career in Barcelona on Thursday without managing to bring his first Champions League at Paris SG handball.
The handball legend, who will retire at the age of 40 at the end of the season, spoke to AFP and L’Equipe after the elimination of the Parisian club in the quarter-finals of the C1 by FC Barcelona (31-32, 22-30), where he spent two seasons (2013 to 2015) and which paid tribute to him before the match.
“I am moved in every room (which salutes his career), but it is sure that today it is a little more special because it was potentially my last Champions League match, and it is now . Plus in a room that means so much to me. The emotion is even stronger but I try not to feel nostalgia, rather happiness to have been able to have such a great career, in so many clubs and to have won the Champions League with Barcelona (2015). This tribute touched me a lot,” he said.