{"id":210263,"date":"2026-05-18T15:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=210263"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:23:12","slug":"handball-players-are-going-to-the-world-championship-the-hungarians-beat-and-struck-on-the-home-field-but-serbia-passed-after-a-drama-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/handball-players-are-going-to-the-world-championship-the-hungarians-beat-and-struck-on-the-home-field-but-serbia-passed-after-a-drama-video\/","title":{"rendered":"HANDBALL PLAYERS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: The Hungarians beat and struck on the home field, but Serbia passed after a drama! (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Serbia will play at the World Handball Championship! Despite the defeat in the return match in Hungary of 31:30, the Eagles are going to the planetary showcase due to the triumph in the first match of 31:29!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Serbian handball players celebrated with 31:29 in Nis, and then were forced to do everything they could to defend that advantage in Veszprem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hungarians played forcefully, trying in every way to reach the World Championship in a heated atmosphere \u2013 in which a fight almost broke out at one point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Eagles kept a cool head in the finish, the experienced ones scored when it was most needed, and then with defense prevented the rival from reaching the planetary championship \u2013 despite the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The match was played with a lot of intensity from the start \u2013 and how could it not be when the stake was placement at the World Championship. The Hungarians sought to impose a rhythm, because they were chasing the result from the first match. The hosts did not miss from the attack at the start, they quickly resolved all situations and were a step ahead. Serbia managed to turn it around to 5:4 after a goal by Vanja Ilic \u2013 but was not in the lead for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hungary went to 10:7, as they reached a goal with a player less. However, the defended seven-meter throw by Milosavljev brought an additional dose of confidence to the Eagles. With one quick goal by Kos, then a stolen ball and a realized counterattack by Dodic, our handball players gained the advantage again (15:14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-serbiantimes-info-en wp-block-embed-serbiantimes-info-en\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Aazs3zpmC2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/column-kovacevic-when-the-serbian-jury-boycotts-the-most-serbian-song-just-because-it-is-croatian-andromeda-is-the-sister-of-mother-of-the-jugovici-video\/\">COLUMN, KOVACEVIC: When the Serbian jury boycotts the most Serbian song just because it is \u2013 Croatian! &#8220;Andromeda&#8221; is the sister of &#8220;Mother of the Jugovici&#8221; (VIDEO)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;COLUMN, KOVACEVIC: When the Serbian jury boycotts the most Serbian song just because it is \u2013 Croatian! &#8220;Andromeda&#8221; is the sister of &#8220;Mother of the Jugovici&#8221; (VIDEO)&#8221; &#8212; Serbiantimes.info EN\" src=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/column-kovacevic-when-the-serbian-jury-boycotts-the-most-serbian-song-just-because-it-is-croatian-andromeda-is-the-sister-of-mother-of-the-jugovici-video\/embed\/#?secret=iBG89wXDf5#?secret=Aazs3zpmC2\" data-secret=\"Aazs3zpmC2\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few debatable decisions by the referees followed, but the Eagles withstood the pressure, and with a great action and a goal by Mitrovic after an assist from Ilic, they reached an equalizer (17:17) at halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then \u2013 complete chaos at the beginning of the second. First Dodic was excluded, and then Borzas roughly hit Fazekas, because of which Rosta pushed him away. However, a fight on the court was prevented. Soon Serbia was left without a third player on the court, because Pesmalbek also received two minutes! In those moments, Hungary escaped even to 22:19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was played sharply in the continuation, with a lot of contact, along with some controversial decisions by the referees \u2013 but the Eagles managed to catch up, with important goals by Djukic, Pesmalbek, and Marsenic in the final minutes for a deficit of 31:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serbia took risks, tried to come out with all seven players in the attack, but there was no equalizer. The Hungarians had the last attack \u2013 but Pesmalbek stole the ball \u2013 and one goal difference remained. 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Despite the defeat in the return match in Hungary of 31:30, the Eagles are going to the planetary showcase due to the triumph in the first match of 31:29! The Serbian handball players celebrated with 31:29 in Nis, and then were forced to do everything they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":210264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2807,2449,1413,1950],"class_list":["post-210263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-baraz","tag-reprezentacija-srbije","tag-rukomet","tag-svetsko-prvenstvo","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210328,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210263\/revisions\/210328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}