{"id":49736,"date":"2016-01-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joma-sport.com\/blog\/croatia-one-of-the-favorites-in-the-european-handball-championship\/"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:00:00","slug":"croatia-one-of-the-favorites-in-the-european-handball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joma-sport.com\/blog\/en\/croatia-one-of-the-favorites-in-the-european-handball-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia, one of the favorites in the European Handball Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen national teams are going for gold medal in the <strong>European Handball Championship<\/strong>. This Friday starts the competition where <strong>Croatia<\/strong>, one of the best teams in the world, is going to compete for achieving the first position for the first time in its history. They were always a medal candidate, but at the Euro 2014 and the World Championship 2015 they failed to make the podium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Croatia,&nbsp;<\/strong>sponsor by<strong> JOMA,<\/strong> is one of the most honored <strong>teams<\/strong> in the world, with two gold medals in the&nbsp;<strong>Olympic Games,&nbsp;<\/strong>one&nbsp;<strong>World Championship&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;a second place in a <strong>European Championship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Poland<\/strong>, where is going to be the<strong> Euro 2016<\/strong>, they want to rank first in Group B where they will play against Belarus, Norway and Iceland. 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