In the second round of the second phase of the Europa League last week, the Porto handball players beat the Spanish Granollers with 29:27 and kept their chances of reaching the round of 16. One of the best on the floor was Ante Grbavac, former goalkeeper of Izviđač and Zagreb.
Ljubušak ended the match with an incredible 18 saves with a high 45% success rate, and in the interview for the portal Jabuka.tv he said that they are happy and satisfied with the achieved result because it is one step that separates them from the round of 16 of the Europa League.
He expects them tonight return meeting with the Granollers team at home from 20:45.
I have never highlighted myself as much as I would highlight the whole team, of course my goalkeeper coach with whom I am prepared the game superbly and it was, thank God, excellent. I hope we will continue like this in the next matches, Grbavac, who left Zagreb for Porto this winter, tells us a six-month loan. First impressions for him are more than good.
As for my arrival and how happy I am here, I really feel happy and fulfilled. I think that from the first day I was accepted very well both in the dressing room and inside the club. LJews who were there they accepted me very well. Whatever I needed they helped and I really feel great now. I hope to continue like this.
While he was reaching important points in the Europa League with his Porto, Anto was happy with the news from Slovenia where his parent club Izviđač made another great European result.
I would like to congratulate my Boy Scout on with very good results and really, when you see that every year they achieve a top result, it’s normal that you should be happy, especially on the European stage. This is their third year. Before that, they were in the Europa League group, where they presented themselves as a young and energetic team, last year they played semi-final of the European Cup and this year one of them fell a tough opponent in the round of 16but they showed that stubbornness and character of ourspoints out Grbavac.
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This 32-year-old believes that probably, if many experts were asked, Scout would have little chance against Trim considering the kind of players they have.
We once again showed that we can play against much better, so I hope that in the quarter-finals against Carvin again, some small miracle will happen to make it to the semi-finals.
I’m really proud to have been part of that clubGrbavac said.
Before going to Portugal, he was in Zagreb goalkeeper tandem did with Matej Mandićwho after excellent games made a transfer to the German Bundesliga team Magdeburg. It was Mandić who was replaced in Zagreb’s goal by another former Scout Haris Suljevićso we asked Anta what is the secret of Ljubuk goalkeepers.
To our goalkeeper coach Milan Tolic the greatest credit belongs to why it emerges so many good goalkeepers from Ljubuški and I really think that he is the initiator of top goalkeepers from Ljubuški, reveals the Hunchback who is for the portal Jabuka.tv gladly shared his memories of the recently concluded European Handball Championship, which he attended Croatia won a bronze medal.
Really kudos to the guys, bow to the floor. In those conditions and everything that happened to them, to win bronze it has a lot of weight and I think they confirmed the quality from last year when they won silver. They showed character and togetherness and how he fights for the holy coat of arms.
The four Ljubušaks also gave a great bronze medal – Matej and David Mandić, Diano Ceško and Ivano Pavlovićwhich, as Grbavac says, is the result of the quality work of Izviđač’s handball school.
I hope we will in the future to watch some new kids from Ljubuški in the Croatia jersey again – claims Grbavac for the readers of the portal Jabuka.tv.
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