2025 IHF Men’s Handball World Championship: Teams and stars to watch
Denmark are the clear favourites to win a fourth title although this is the first tournament in their golden era that they will be without Mikkel Hansen.
They still possess great strength all over the court with Gidsel, Pytlick, Lukas Jørgensen, and goalkeeper Niklas Landin all making the All Star Team at Paris 2024. Gidsel was named MVP having claimed the same award at the last World Championships, while Barça goalie Emil Nielsen gives the squad added excellence between the posts.
The Danes did not have things all their own way in Paris as they edged past Sweden and Slovenia by the odd goal in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively. Then came a…