A premiere in the crucial duels

It is the eleventh participation in the VELUX EHF Champions League for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and even the 13th for KS Vive Tauron Kielce, but never before have those top contenders faced each other in any Champions League match so far.

The premiere will decide whether Flensburg will make it to Cologne for the second time after 2014 (when they sensationally took the trophy) or if Kielce will have their third appearance after 2013 and 2015 (both times finishing on the third position).

SG Flensburg-Handewitt (GER) vs Vive Tauron Kielce (POL) Saturday 23 April, 17:30 hrs. local time, live on ehfTV Talant Dujshebaev has a dream. To face his son Alex (HC Vardar) at the VELUX EHF FINAL4 once. This season, the family reunion can happen, but both Dujshebaevs have high quarter-final hurdles ahead. While Alex faces 2015 finalist MVM Veszprém, Talant duel with Flensburg.

“He is a tactical mastermind,” praises Flensburg’s right wing Lasse Svan Dujshebaev, who won the EHF Champions League three times as the coach of BM Ciudad Real. But Svan is confident that his side is not chanceless, mainly in the first leg on home ground: “Our fans need to put …

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