Romania crashed out of the Women’s World Handball Championship in the main group stage, with former coach Gheorghe Tadici drawing conclusions after the evolution of the tricolors.

Gheorghe Tadici believes that the composition of the team led to Romania’s elimination from the Women’s Handball World Cup

The tricolors won four and lost twice in the groups of the Women’s Handball World Cup, but missed the quarterfinals and the pre-Olympic tournament, finishing 12th.

Former coach Gheorghe Tadici has analyzed Romania’s progress at the World Cup in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and believes that injuries have played the most important role in the progress of the tricolors.

“It is clear that this time, as in last year’s European Championship, we were not lucky with the composition of the team. These were basic players, mostly injured or not 100% ready for the national team.

Even among those who played and participated in the game, there were those who were not 100%. In these conditions, against the background of the limited number of Romanian players who…

It is difficult to build a very competitive team. But I say that they were close, that the match with Germany was somewhat within our reach.” – said Gheorghe Tadicifor Sport.ro.

Regarding Kristina Nyagu, the star of the team who went into the match against Germany not yet fully recovered, Tadici says that it would be better not to be on the field.

“She didn’t train for a month. I’ve said it before and I say it now, that if it’s not 100% right, it shouldn’t be used, and please, it did.

She wanted to help too, she wanted to help. He helped as much as he could. I don’t know how much he could and couldn’t.

As I said before the World Cup, if I were Pera, I wouldn’t use her if she wasn’t 100% fit,” said current HC Zalău coach.

Romania’s results at the Women’s Handball World Cup are 44-19 vs. Chile, 37-28 vs. Serbia, 23-39 vs. Denmark, 22-24 vs. Germany, 32-28 vs. Japan, and 27-26 vs. Poland.

Main group III, final rating

1. Denmark – 8 b (152:121)

2. Germany – 8 b (147:120)

3. Romania – 6 b (141:145)

4. Poland – 4 b (119:143)

5. Japan – 4 b (137-141)

6. Serbia – 0 points (111:137)

Quarter-finals of the Women’s World Handball Championship

Sweden vs. Germany

France against the Czech Republic

Denmark vs. Montenegro

Netherlands vs. Norway

Romania’s record at each World Handball Championship in which it participated

World Cup Spain 2021 – 13th place: 3 wins / 0 draws / 3 losses / 202-146 (goal difference +56)

WC 2019 Japan – 12th place: 3 wins / 0 draws / 5 losses / 181-227 (-46)

World Cup 2017 Germany – 10th place: 4 wins / 0 draws / 2 losses / 150-140 (+10)

World Cup 2015 Denmark – 3rd place: 5 wins / 0 draws / 4 losses / 270-225 (+45)

WC 2013 Serbia – 10th place: 4 wins / 1 draw / 2 losses / 161-127 (+34)

WC 2011 Brazil – 13th place: 2 wins / 1 draw / 3 losses / 166-183 (-17)

2009 World Cup China – 8th place: 5 wins / 1 draw / 3 losses / 306-231 (+75)

2007 World Cup France – 4th place: 7 wins / 0 draws / 3 losses / 323-284 (+39)

2005 WC Russia – 2nd place: 9 wins / 0 draws / 1 loss / 322-249 (+73)

2003 World Cup Croatia – 10th place: 4 wins / 1 draw / 3 losses / 244-206 (+38)

WC 2001 Italy – 17th place: 1 win / 0 draws / 4 losses / 129-135 (-6)

1999 World Cup in Denmark and Norway – 4th place: 5 wins / 0 draws / 4 losses / 250-196 (+54)

1997 German World Cup – 12th place: 3 wins / 0 draws / 3 losses / 186-161 (+25)

WC 1995 Austria-Hungary – 7th place: 6 wins / 0 draws / two losses / 232-175 (+57)

1993 World Cup Norway – 4th place: 4 wins / 0 draws / 3 losses / 156-129 (+27)

World Cup 1990 South Korea – 7th place: 1 win / 1 draw / 3 losses / 90-100 (-10)

1986 WC Netherlands – 5th place: 5 wins / 1 draw / 1 loss / 151-129 (+22)

World Cup 1982 Hungary – 8th place: 3 wins / 3 draws / 1 loss / 159-122 (+37)

World Cup 1978 in Czechoslovakia – 7th place: 3 wins / 0 draws / two losses / 78-67 (+11)

1975 USSR WC – 4th place: 4 wins / 0 draws / 3 losses / 102-83 (+19)

WC 1973 Yugoslavia – 2nd place: 4 wins / 0 draws / 1 loss / 67-52 (+15)

Netherlands Championship 1971 – 4th place: 2 wins / 1 draw / 2 losses / 51-51 (0)

World Cup Germany 1965 – 6th place: 0 wins / two draws / one loss / 18-21 (-3)

1962 World Cup in Romania – 1st place: 4 wins / 1 draw / 0 losses / 41-17 (+24)

World Cup 1957 Yugoslavia – 9th place: 0 wins / 0 draws / two losses / goal difference 2-9

Total: 164 matches / 91 wins / 12 draws / 61 losses / 4037-3465 (+572) goal difference.

Romania’s best result in the entire history of participation in the Women’s Handball World Cup

Romania’s best results were: the gold won at the 1962 tournament held in our country. 9 teams took part in the competition, and in the grand final, Romania beat Denmark 8-5.

This team included: Liliana Borcha, Ana Starck, Edeltraut Franz, Juliana Nako, Aurelia Soke-Selagianu, Constanta Dumitrascu, Antoineta Ocelea-Vasilie, Felicia Giorgitse, Iryna Nagy, Cornelia Constantinescu, Aurora Leonte-Niculescu, Josefina Ugron, Martina Constantinescu -Shape, Elena Hedesiu, Victoria Dumitrescu and Ana Nemets. Trainers: Constantin Popescu, Nikulae Nedeff.

Romania later won three more medals: silver in 1973 (defeated in the final 16-11 against host nation Yugoslavia), also silver in 2005 (lost in the grand final 28-23 to Russia) and bronze in 2015 ( 31-22 against Poland in the minor final).

The World Cup is being held for the first time in three countries, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, from November 29 to December 17, with 32 national teams taking part. Europe has 16 places at the World Cup, and three of them have been taken directly by the host teams. They were joined by Montenegro, France and the Netherlands after the EC 2022 ranking.