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

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

The 2025 Handball World Cup will take place in Oslo, three Croatian cities and in Herning, Denmark. Simon Pytlick, a 24-year-old Danish left back, will serve as vice-captain of the Danish national team. Pytlick supports captain Magnus Saugstrup and is tasked with 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 crucial to the team's structure, but both players will no longer be active in this tournament. Pytlick himself is looking forward to returning to the national team and emphasizes the positive team dynamic, which is fostered by the trust of coach Nikolaj Jacobsen. In particular, he emphasizes that he can play in the national team with many friends from his club SG Flensburg-Handewitt. He has already played a few international matches in Herning, but there is still a big tournament to go.

Opponents and expectations

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

Simon Pytlick was born on December 11, 2000 in Thurø, Denmark. He is 1.93 m tall and currently plays for SG Flensburg-Handewitt, where he wears number 2. In his youth he played for GOG Håndbold before also playing for this club between 2018 and 2023. Pytlick made his debut in the Danish national team on November 4, 2021 and has so far made 33 appearances in which he has scored 134 goals Wikipedia reported.

Achievements in his young career include participation in the IHF Men's Handball World Championship in 2023, as well as multiple Danish championships and nominations for the All-Star team in the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons. 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.

– Submitted by West-East media