Luka Karabatic will not take part in Euro 2022, the French Handball Federation announced on Friday. The pivot of the PSG is still feeling a muscle injury to the thigh and is insufficiently recovered.
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The race against the clock will remain unsuccessful for Luka Karabatic. The younger sibling will not take part in Euro 2022 handball. Retained in the initial list for the preparation of the competition (from January 13 to 30) and for the Golden League (January 7 and 9), the pivot must forfeit announced the French Handball Federation on Friday in a press release. Hit in the thigh with his club, Paris Saint-Germain, the Olympic champion from Tokyo could not be handed over in time for the next deadlines for the Blues.
Luka Karabatic withdraws for EHF EURO 2022 https://t.co/Rhv36dewDw
– French Handball teams (@FRAHandball) December 31, 2021
Called on by Guillaume Gille to follow the progress of his injury, Luka Karabatic has “felt a point in the right thigh“, explains the doctor of the France team, Emmanuel Bidet.”This is a recurrence of his muscle pain. We therefore wanted to perform a thorough examination with an MRI which revealed a grade 1c lesion on Thursday evening.“A few months after his brother Nikola, who returned just in time after a serious injury to participate in the Olympics, Luka Karabatic will have to support his partners from the infirmary.
European champion in 2014, and double world champion (2015, 2017), Karabatic was one of the twelve Olympic champions of Tokyo selected from the list of twenty players for the preparation of the Euro played in Hungary and Slovakia. The loss is serious for the Blues, in a key position, but already richly endowed with Ludovic Fabregas and Nicolas Tournat.
In addition to the Barça player and that of Kielce, the French staff called in support the Nantes native Théo Monar “in order to strengthen the workforce“. The 20-year-old player, who turned professional at the start of the season with the H, is part of the new generation of French handball, who will succeed the experienced executives of the Experts. The handover is slowly underway, without changing the objectives. des Bleus: regaining the roof of the continent, eight years later.