Romania’s CSM Bucharest wins EHF Women’s Champions League

Romania’s girls handball group served a marvel on Sunday when it gained the EHF Women’s Champions League via beating favourite group Gyor.

CSM Bucharest, who’re inexperienced persons to the EHF Women’s Champions League, gained the overall after time beyond regulation and penalty photographs, 29-26.

“An abnormal efficiency: Champions League involves Romania! Congratulations CSM Bucharest!” the Romanian Handball Federation posted to their Facebook web page after the fit.

This victory, which was once the most important efficiency for Romanian girls’s handball in over 50 years, got here in keeping with a super season for CSM Bucharest, which began within the festival’s quarter finals with a marvel victory in opposition to Russia’s Rostov-Don. In the crowd level, CSM Bucharest had misplaced 5 in their six suits in opposition to Gyor, Buducnost, and Vardar.

“This was once a dream come true. We had been combating with accidents and gamers who left all over complete season. No one anticipated us to be right here and to raise this trophy. I’m more than happy and extremely joyful we gained,” mentioned participant Jelena Grubisic, who has additionally been voted MVP.

Two different Romanian groups have gained the European Champions Cup (which preceded the EHF Champions League): Stiinta Bucharest, in 1961, and Rapid Bucharest, in 1964. The Romanian girls’s handball nationwide group additionally had its absolute best efficiency within the early 60s, after they gained the one World Champions name.

Natalia Martian | Photo courtesy of the Romanian Handball Federation