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Slovenia´s back-court ace Uroš Zorman analyzed his side´s success story so far with a view to tomorrow´s all-or-nothing duel against FYR Macedonia.
Hosts Serbia and their neighbours FYR Macedonia and Croatia are on an absolute high at the EHF EURO 2012. One reason for their boom is for sure the huge and loud support of their spectators.
The Cair Arena in Nis in the Preliminary Round was completely in the hand of Macedonians, just like the arenas in Vrsac and Novi Sad (Main Round) were full with Croatians. Serbia was supported loudly in Pionir Arena. In Beogradska Arena the support for FYR Macedonia and hosts Serbia was incredible, they pushed their teams to success and to the limit.
That such support can spread the wings of the hosts is not unique in Serbia, but has a long history at major handball events. Look at this list of success of hosting countries at men’s events since the first EHF EURO in 1994.
World Championship 2011 in Sweden: Sweden reached the semi-final and ranked fourth after a weak period in the previous years and Denmark, having “home matches” in Malmö, won the Silver medal.
Kiril Lazarov can write history on Friday: The Macedonian top star and current top scorer of the EHF EURO 2012 with 53 goals (in six matches) has got the chance to become the player with the most goals ever in a single Men’s EHF EURO event since 1994.
When hitting the back of the net more than five times in the 5/6 Placement Match on Friday against Slovenia, Lazarov will break the current record of Icelandic Olafur Stefansson, who became top scorer at the EHF EURO 2002 in Sweden with 58 goals (see list of all top scorers below).
If Lazarov reaches the new record, the Macedonian will become the first ever player in handball history to the ever top scorer of an EHF EURO event and a World Championship, too. At the World Championship 2009 in Croatia Lazarov scored 92 goals in ten matches and is the all time top scorer for a WCh event.
Lazarov was also top scorer of the VELUX EHF Champions League twice, including the 2007/08 season, when he shared the top position with Olafur Stefansson (each 96 goals), whose EHF EURO record he is willing to break on Friday.
In this interview with ehf-euro.com Kiril Lazarov talks about the importance of his goals, the Macedonian teamwork and the Olympic dream.
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