Simon Pytlick: Denmark's handball hero looks ahead of exciting World Cup!

Simon Pytlick: Denmark's handball hero looks ahead of exciting World Cup!

The 2025 handball championship takes place in Oslo, three Croatian cities and in Herning, Denmark. Simon Pytlick, a 24-year-old Danish left-wing player, will act as vice captain of the Danish national team. Pytlick supports Captain Magnus Saugstrup and has the task of keeping an eye on the team and helping players in difficult times, such as SG Flensburg-Handewitt reported.

In recent years, Niklas Landin and Mikkel Hansen have been decisive for the team structure, but both players will no longer be active in this tournament. Pytlick himself looks forward to returning to the national team and emphasizes the positive team dynamics, which is encouraged by the trust of the coach Nikolaj Jacobsen. In particular, he emphasizes that he can play with many friends from his club SG Flensburg-Handewitt in the national team. He has already played some caps in Herning, but there is still a big tournament.

opponents and expectations

Pytlick has witnessed the 2019 World Cup at the TV and is excited to see how impressive the experience on the field will be. In the preliminary round, Denmark will compete against Italy, Algeria and Tunisia. Italy describes Pytlick as a strong opponent who has Bundesliga players while expecting patience against Tunisia. He has no concrete information about Algeria, but suspects a style of play similar to that of Tunisia. Despite the challenges, Pytlick is confident that the Danish team should successfully end the preliminary round.

Simon Pytlick was born on December 11, 2000 in Thurø, Denmark. It has a size of 1.93 m and is currently playing for SG Flensburg-Handewitt, where he wears number 2. In his youth he played Håndbold for Gog before he also became active for this association between 2018 and 2023. Pytlick made his debut in the Danish national team on November 4, 2021 and has so far completed 33 missions in which he scored 134 goals, as wikipedia

Successes in his still young career include participation in the IHF World Cup in the handball of the men in 2023, as well as multiple Danish championships and nominations for the All-Star team in the seasons 2021/2022 and 2022/2023. He also comes from a sports -loving family, his father Jan Pytlick was a handball coach, and his siblings Camilla and Josephine are also professional handball players. His cousin Andreas Haagen Pytlick is also active in handball.

-transmitted by West-East media