“These are tough opponents,” commented Viborg HK coach, Tomas Ryde, right after the draw of the first group stage in the Women’s Champions League. His team was drawn into Group D together with Budapest Bank-FTC from Hungary, Buducnost T-Mobile from Montenegro and the winner of Qualification Group 3 (with Romanian Oltchim Valcea, Norwegian Byåsen, Portuguese Madeira Andebol and a team from the first qualification round.
“If Valcea win their qualification group – as I expect – I’m quite sure that they will be our toughest opponents, while I’m in doubt about the two other teams,” Tomas Ryde told Eurohandball.com.
Question marks: Buducnost and FTC
“I think that Budocnost have a very good team, but I’m not sure how they will improve after their recent coach change. However, our new Serbian player, Bojana Popovic, will be able to provide us with a lot of information about them,” said Ryde. The Swedish coach has also questions about FTC Budapest.
“At the moment it is quite difficult to say a lot about that team. I’m not sure, whether they are as strong as they were last season. They lost their coach (András Nemeth has joined Austrian Hypo Niederösterreich, ed.) and a couple of players too. I don’t know their strength right now. Anyway, we are optimistic as we always have to be,” concluded Viborg’s Swedish coach.
TEXT: Peter Bruun
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