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Bölk degrades national coach – and gets them back
Bölk degrades national coach – and gets them back
04/08/2025, 10:17 a.m.
After her degradation as a DHB captain, Emily Bölk is back in the contingent of Germany’s handball players. The leader fights for her World Cup ticket. However, national coaches and players are silent about the reasons for the degradation.
Emily Bölk would have marked the upcoming international game thickly in the calendar without its piquant history. Germany’s handball players meet Denmark in Hamburg, and the former captain was born and grew up at the gates of the Hanseatic city. But that’s not the only reason why Wednesday is waiting (8:30 p.m. at DF1 and in the live ticker at ntv.de) A special home game for the back room player.
“Emmy is now back, she made a good impression this morning,” said national coach Markus Gaugisch after the start of the course on Monday: “I am sure that she will go full throttle now.” Bölk, the best-known German international, gives her comeback in the DHB women’s team after stirring months. After the disappointing European Championship, Gaugisch had withdrawn the captain’s office and initially no longer nominated it. But Gaugisch also emphasized in the year of the home World Cup: “A door is never closed, it is always open.”
Bölk has not yet commented
This is now true. Bölk gets the chance to fight for the home world championship in the Kracher-Duellen with the Vice European Champion in Hamburg and on Saturday in Aabenraa, Danish in Aabenraa. “I have the feeling that everyone has the World Cup goal together and also go in this direction,” said Gaugisch and added: “The most important thing about everything is how the player deals with it, how does the coaching team deal with it, how does the team deal with it – and I see that as very, very good.”
So far, Bölk has not commented on the decision of the DHB coach, instead she let the Top Club Ferencvaros Budapest act speak. Among other things, she won the Hungarian trophy, in the championship the capital club as the league leader is a head-to-head race with the rival Györi ETO, and in the Champions League Bölk still dreams of another participation in the final four.
“That’s why we put this impulse”
And Gaugisch also maintains the reasons for the temporary degradation of the 132-time international. “There have never been any things that we accused her of or who did not work. But we saw that younger players are pushing in this position. That is why we put this impulse,” said the DHB coach.
Bölk was appointed captain of the DHB selection under Gaugisch’s predecessor Henk Groener together with Alina Grijseels. After a detailed analysis of 2024 with Sieben Sieben and the Olympic Off in the quarter-finals, Grijseels had also been disempowered in addition to Bölk, and Antje Döll takes the team to the home world championship (November 26 to December 14). The squad -casting for the highlight in winter is in the middle of it in the middle of it.
