Viborg Coach: Tough Teams Ahead

“These are tough opponents,” commented Viborg HK coach, Tomas Ryde, right after the draw of the first group stage in the Women’s Champions League. His team was drawn into Group D together with Budapest Bank-FTC from Hungary, Buducnost T-Mobile from Montenegro and the winner of Qualification Group 3 (with Romanian Oltchim Valcea, Norwegian Byåsen, Portuguese Madeira Andebol and a team from the first qualification round.

“If Valcea win their qualification group – as I expect – I’m quite sure that they will be our toughest opponents, while I’m in doubt about the two other teams,” Tomas Ryde told Eurohandball.com.

Question marks: Buducnost and FTC

“I think that Budocnost have a very good team, but I’m not sure how they will improve after their recent coach change. However, our new Serbian player, Bojana Popovic, will be able to provide us with a lot of information about them,” said Ryde. The Swedish coach has also questions about FTC Budapest.

“At the moment it is quite difficult to say a lot about that team. I’m not sure, whether they are as strong as they were last season. They lost their coach (András Nemeth has joined Austrian Hypo Niederösterreich, ed.) and a couple of players too. I don’t know their strength right now. Anyway, we are optimistic as we always have to be,” concluded Viborg’s Swedish coach.