EHF Champions League finalist in 2023, world champion in 2019 and member of the EHF Excellence Awards team of the season for 2022/23, Angela Malestein is well-known as a reliable and important player for FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria and the Netherlands. But she was once the player on the fringe rather than on the court, which meant she had to work harder and harder to achieve the dream she held tight since childhood. Her story is about never giving up, self-belief and self-responsibility, with important help from family and teammates that became friends.