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Four Rio silver medals boost Metz’s quarter-final dream
- Updated: October 4, 2016
For the 18th time Metz Handball are part of the Women’s EHF Champions League but their biggest success occurred in other European Cup competitions: In 2013, the French record champions were EHF Cup finalist, and four times Metz made it to the semi-finals of the Cup Winners’ Cup.
In the EHF Champions League their best result were two participations in the main round. So now, Metz are aiming for their first ever Champions League quarter-final berth.
The team from the Moselle region is boosted by the French result at Rio, as four Metz players – goalkeeper Laura Glauser, new arrival Béatrice Edwige, young gun Tamara Horacek and team captain Grâce Zaadi – returned home with Olympic silver medals.
Coach Emmanuel Mayonnade started his mission 1 January 2016 and steered the team to the French title five months later.
He is now focusing on both – the domestic competition in a truly improved French league and the international challenge in the EHF Champions League, where Metz will face two-time EHF Champions League winners Buducnost, Thüringer HC and …
