It has started! Patrick Wiencek renounces World Cup in Egypt!
08.12.2020
Photo: Simon Hofmann/ Bongarts/Getty Images
In Germany started big campaign against holding the World Cup 2021 in Egypt. Many bundesliga clubs are against holding it. First player that renounced is Kiel's line player, Patrick Wiencek. Like his teammates from Kiel, Hendrik Pekeler, Steffen Weinhold and Domagoj Duvnjak, Patrick Wiencek had expressed himself critically about holding the World Cup in North Africa. There is no doubt that it will be more dismissals.
National team player, Patrick Wiencek has informed national team coach Alfred Gislason and board member Axel Kromer in personal talks about not taking part in the upcoming handball World Cup in Egypt (13th to 31st January).
“Patrick informed us early on about this decision made for personal reasons. We respect this step.” - says Kromer.
Germany will also be without injuried Franz Semper while diagnosis for Tim Sutton who injuried his knee on Sunday is still pending.
Extended 35-man squad for the World Cup in Egypt:
Goalkeepers: Andreas Wolff (KS Vive Kielec / POL), Johannes Bitter (TVB Stuttgart), Till Klimpke (HSG Wetzlar), Silvio Heinevetter (MT Melsungen), Dario Quenstedt (THW Kiel)
Left wings: Uwe Gensheimer (Rhein-Neckar Löwen), Marcel Schiller (Frisch Auf Göppingen), Patrick Zieker (TVB Stuttgart), Rune Dahmke (THW Kiel)
Left backs: Julius Kühn (MT Melsungen), Sebastian Heymann (Frisch Auf Göppingen), Christian Dissinger (RK Vardar Skopje / MKD), Paul Drux (Füchse Berlin), Fabian Böhm (TSV Hannover-Burgdorf)
Centre backs: Tim Suton (TBV Lemgo), Philipp Weber (SC DHfK Leipzig), Juri Knorr (TSV GWD Minden), Marian Michalczik (Füchse Berlin)
Right backs: Steffen Weinhold (THW Kiel), Fabian Wiede (Füchse Berlin), David Schmidt (Bergischer HC), Franz Semper (SG Flensburg-Handewitt) *, Kai Häfner (MT Melsungen), Antonio Metzner (HC Erlangen)
Right wingers: Tobias Reichmann (MT Melsungen), Timo Kastening (MT Melsungen), Patrick Groetzki (Rhein-Neckar Löwen), Marius Steinhauser (SG Flensburg-Handewitt)
Line Players: Hendrik Pekeler (THW Kiel), Patrick Wiencek (THW Kiel) *, Jannik Kohlbacher (Rhein-Neckar Löwen), Johannes Golla (SG Flensburg-Handewitt), Moritz Preuss (SC Magdeburg)
Defeders: Finn Lemke (MT Melsungen), Sebastian Firnhaber (HC Erlangen)
Photo: @thw_handball/Twitter
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