Handball, Handball, and More Handball

Not much going on. The weekend was pretty mellow, but included lots of handball.

Yesterday, we had an away game against HF Eslövtjejerna. At times, we struggled a little bit. It was not our best game, but we pulled through with a win, 26-18.

On Saturday, I went to Gothenburg with our coach, trainer, and club president and their families to watch a match between Kungälvs HK and Kärra HF. They are the 2nd and 4th place teams, respectively, in our league. We play Kärra this Friday and Kungälvs in a few weeks so it was good to see the competition.

Afterwards, we went to a restaurant, who sponsors us, in downtown Uddevalla. They even have a dish that was created for our team. I don't even know how to describe it, but it had chicken in it and it was delicious.

After dinner, we then went to the president's house for some ice cream, goodies, and tea/coffee. We also watched some more handball on TV because the Statoil World Cup was held this past week in Sweden. So we saw a semi-final match between Denmark and Tunisia. I noticed one of the players on the Tunisia team because he plays for Montpellier, the French club team. My USA teammates know what I'm talking about because we saw them play against Paris in the championships this past summer when we were in Europe. His name is Wissem Hmam; he's the really tall, exotic-looking left back. Anyway, Tunisia beat Denmark in penalty shots, but eventually lost in the final to Croatia.

This week, the Swedish National Team is coming to help us train and we're going to play them on Wednesday. Apparently, the head coach is from Uddevalla. It should be a good experience.