Between the European Football Championships and the Olympics, the news went almost unnoticed. The Qatari investment fund QSI, owner of Paris SG, also bought PSG handball . And in this sports too, the Qataris have an appetite. In the shadow of soccer but with the lights of Experts, newly crowned champions Olympic handball PSG is trying to build a team that can compete with the best French and European teams. Mikkel Hansen, winger International AG Copenhagen Danish elected handball player of the year by the International Federation in 2011, and has pledged on Monday to four years with the Parisian club. Since its acquisition, PSG handball has built a very impressive staff, who will be one of the major contenders for the title of champion of France, Montpellier and Chambery. Danish left-back joined in Paris new recruits, including Olympic champions Didier Dinart Luc Abalo and Samuel Honrubia, among others. With the Spanish goalkeeper Jose Manuel Sierra and Icelandic Robert Gunnarsson, the capital club now has one of the best people of France or of Europe . "This is a recruitment very high quality. they were strengthened at all positions intelligently " , Judge Jerome Fernandez, the team captain of France. And, unlike the Ligue 1 , PSG to find that speak both financially and athletically. The emergence of a new power handballistique could revive the interest of a championship phagocytosed by Montpellier. "This is positive for all the French handball, slice Molines Robert, one of the founders of Montpellier handball, and current member of the supervisory board of the club. locomotive is more powerful, the train is moving fast. " An opinion shared by Jerome Fernandez, who evokes "a turning point in the history of handball in France" , who can not feed that only the results of the national team. "It's a whole must also be attractive the championship" . Riding the wave of Experts, and now two telecasts per week, the championship of France intends to capitalize on the new hype handball. " Everyone looks at what happens in the hand and our French championship will become the second best in Europe, said Robert Molines, who was president of Montpellier for 14 years.
"LEADING A TEAM AT NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN"
Does he not fear, however, a form of competition 'unfair'? After having Luc Abalo recruited for 500,000 euros, a massive amount of handball, PSG, with its budget of 7-8 million, should s' line on the salary touched Hanssen to his former club, estimated at 530 000 euros annually. A way of comparison, Nikola Karabatic another star World handball, affects approximately 300,000 euros per year in Montpellier. " Money is the sinews of war, Robert Molines slice . Barcelona and Real When spending without counting everyone finds it normal. Why not France? must accept , it is professionalism. " Robert Molines knows whereof he speaks. In 2009, leaders Montpellier had to make financial sacrifices to large to allow the return of the darling Nikola Karabatic, then an expatriate in Kiel. The German club champion of Europe, which evolves Daniel Narcisse was also competing with Kielce, Champion of Poland , and PSG for s' to attach the services of Hansen. But the German club, triple European champion, was not sufficient arguments to convince the Danes join their club.Instead, Hansen joined a club that will not play the Champions League and that is saved in extremis from relegation last season. "We want to build over time a team leading at national and European level " , announced QSI leaders at the time of redemption. With its brand new coach Philippe Gardent, former Barjot , they provide the means to be competitive very quickly. Parallel with the football is easy. Same owners, same political investment ,will even raise the club to the top of the European hierarchy. Simply divide the amount by ten or twenty. "Great players does not necessarily mean great team" , however, warns Robert Molines. PSG Ancelotti, who drags his sentence at the beginning of the championship, will the contradiction.
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