Women's U19 European Championships, with six U20 world champions
Our women's junior national team is going to a competition in which, in its history dating back to 1994, we have won the most medals - 10, the most so far 14 times - but they only managed to win the U19 European Championship once, back in 1998.
Two years ago, in Netanya, our team finished as silver medalists - then the Spanish defended their title (in 2018, 2020 )
According to our current knowledge, the Spaniards will again be the biggest rivals, if everything is true, they will even have a recent Olympic champion, Isabel Piralkova. Of course, we also have excellence, let's not say otherwise, six of last year's U20 world champion team are members of the current squad (Szonja Golopencza, Kata Hajdú, Laura Kardos, Eszter Mácsai, Tiba Panna, Eszter Varró). And they happened to defeat the Spaniards in the golden match last autumn - where Márton Benczur managed the team in the same way as now.
In any case, the group stage seems easier despite the fact that the Euro will take place according to the two-division system, i.e. the guards who finished in the top eight in the previous competition are in groups A and B, and the rest are in C and D. The draw threw the Croatians and the French here, so at first glance, the rally against the Greeks seems to be a tougher challenge (though let's not forget the U16 European Championship, where the Croatians defeated the Dutch in the quarter-finals). Hacaca's is due from the quarter-finals, although the first place in the group would almost certainly guarantee a meeting against Israel, at least based on the paper form: on the other side, in addition to the Spanish, there are also the Italians and the Dutch, plus the Israelis.
The traveling frame
Emese Batizi
Szonja Golopencza
Gulyás-Page Emma
Kata Hajdú
Luca Horváth
Zsófi Horváth
Dominika Kardos
Laura Kardos
Zoé Lendvay
Eszter Mácsai
Bíbor Pogonyi
Lili Sóti
Tiba Panna
Luca Torma
Varró Eszter
Staff:
Péter Biros, Márton Benczur, Dóra Kisteleki, Gergely Béres, Dr. Péter Golopencza, Marcella Almási-Szabó, Zsolt Csapliczky
Schedule of the European Championship in Zagreb (group stage)
August 25
17.30 Hungary-Croatia
August 26
10.30 Hungary-Greece
August 27
16.00 Hungary-France
