The most important moment of the season for the Costa del Sol Málaga arrives. A team that, despite all the difficulties that have … This campaign has crossed, he has managed to rebuild again and again to get alive to the latter and decisive stage. Today, only three days after the closure of the regular league, the ‘play-off’ starts for the title of the Honor Division, the highest category of national female handball. This fight for the championship was established in the 2022-23 season, and then, luck smiled at our province.
Until that course, at the end of the regular league the winner decided, however, the Spanish Handball Federation opted to turn to the bases of the competition and extend the calendar a few more weeks so that the eight best teams in the table fight for the league title in three qualifying rounds: some quarterfinals and semifinals to double match and a final to the best of three. This afternoon, the starting pistol will be given by the quarterfinals. And in this round, the team led by Suso Gallardo has been paired with one of his nemesis, the Rocasa Gran Canaria, a team that has been quite corrected by these last campaigns, and which snatched him, in Martín Carpena, the title of the EHF European Cup. The first duel will be today, at 8:30 p.m., at home.
It should be noted the great value of the ‘panthers’ Malaga for having reached this stage after proclaiming itself, for the second time in the history of the runner -up club of the regular league. A feat taking into account that the entity has crossed, according to it confirms its worst course as far as it is concerned. To the absences of Silvia Arderius (for maternity) and Diva (injured in preseason and debutante just a month ago), during the year they joined the infirmary innumerable players. There were days in which the casualties became five or six, and even so, the Costa del Sol only crossed a pump.
Merit
Of course, one capital, in the month of January, when they were eliminated from the EHF European Cup and the Queen’s Cup before reaching its final phase, something that had not happened for a decade. Even in a well, they managed to see the light and move forward more strongly than ever, to focus all their forces in the League. At the close of the regular season, they have reflected infarct numbers, with 20 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses, staying only 2 points of the regular champion, the guard, and also sealing his ticket to Europe for the next year.
Now, the team, with the most empty nursing (except Nayra Solís, Marta Regordán and Barbara Vela) and with the impulse of the incorporation of the international Marta López, Rocasa will be the first stumbling block of Las Malaga on their way to the title. Before this rival, seventh of the regular league, this year’s balance has been a victory and a draw for the Costa del Sol. It will be a week of double game, because the tie will sentence this Saturday, in Pérez Canca, at 7.30 pm. The objective in the Canary Islands will be none other than to achieve the maximum possible income.
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