Handball Defensive Strategies

Thank you. Basically what we are going to do today is aggressive 6-0 defense and transformation from 6-0 to 4-2, 3-3 and 5-5 defense. I will show you the way how I'm working. I'm working for a long period of time. The way that makes some results and the way according to my experience it's good. I now specialize for the female but I was working half of my career with men team too so it doesn't matter one or the other. basic thing is always the same. If you are going to play defense, you have to play with all your heart. My way of thinking about handball is very simple. Defense, you play with your heart, with your brain, in the attack. But all the time, all the time, you have to give 100%. Less than this is not good enough. For me, in handball exists what I call Holy Trinity. I can, I want, and I'm able to. I can, it's technical knowledge. If you have technical skills, I can do it too. Second one, the bonus part of the field, I want the mental part. Without this, you don't have anything. Third part, I'm able to do it, it's physical fitness. One without the other. If you have only two of these things, you're average. Even the worst part, if you don't have the mental part, don't have this wish, this want to explain and to make yourself better better from day to day. I'm happy. I need only 20-30 years of my life to become a last year. I was voted the best Croatian coach of the year. And they gave me all kinds of medals after 30 years. That means they are waiting for me to say goodbye. But it doesn't matter. What you are going to do today, I hope that you will enjoy it, that you will see something that is useful for you, what is useful to take with you, what doesn't fit you, take it away. And just, again, as a player, do the best that you can. Okay? Let's start. We will start later by little. Basically, he's here in half a court. Passing him with a couple of little balls. Run him any way you can. Run backwards, run forwards, run a couple of right. On my whistle, the players that have the ball, go one, but easy. One on one with one player, then another player without the ball, then third player without the ball, and so on. When I whistle the next time, continue with passes, okay? Let's go. Thank you. Any other player without the ball. Any other. Just move. Go. But they didn't pass. Pass. Go, go. When one of you is opening yourself down, what do you do? One of you has a ball. I'm just throwing the ball left, right, whatever I want. The ball can drop only once. You can't drop it with your knees. Go, go. Use your knees. Use your knees. Go. Let's go. Thank you. Thank you. We are passing the ball, still you are winning with the couples only. When I whistle, put the ball on the floor, turn around from the ball, you are the first player. Behind you, you are your couple. Who is the back player, he has to pass the ball. You do it, stop it, and anywhere you are. In the first action, it's looking like this. You're looking at the ball. And that's the problem. When they will be the second one, then you look at him and try to stop him. Okay, continue. Let's go. Here we say you're going to fall back. You're here in a moment. You're here again. Up the corner, Americanas. Congratulations. In a moment, defense. You're here again. You're here again. Americanas. Two groups of six. Two groups of six. Each group we need four balls. Four players with the balls. Make a square. Square of three meters. Task is very simple. Player in attack. Make changes to that room and make double passes all of them. That's local, that's the matter. Your job is to prevent the square-spot monopoly. And to follow him all the way. In full speed, we are doing this for 15 seconds, let me change. Go! You're beating him. Hit the ball! That's the goal. Hit the ball. Hit the turn, hit the turn. Hit the turn, hit the turn. Come on. There you go, you got this. Get the turn and hit the goal. That's the turn, that's good. Two groups, left back, right back. Normal. Don't go too far away. Normal penetrating, pass the ball. I'm right back, down there is the left. I'm going there. Penetrating, pass the ball. After I pass the ball, I'm going to the opposite post. Down there. Okay. Change of direction very fast. Touch the post, pass it to the direction. Come here, to the cone. Go. You need to come in a moment and after you come in, you need to swing. That's it. At the end of the line. Once at a time. Okay? We are doing the same but again, always like this, one depends on the other one. See this one. Again, the most important thing when you are in defensive agility is changing the positions all the time. You are changing direction, you are changing the speed. You never go in the same pattern, just like this. You have to go there, there, there, there, there. This is why we are doing this. Go straight, change direction, change direction, make a sprint, go to a faster break. Second part what is important in defense, always we make training trains, we have to make faster break at the same time. Now, same exercise, go down there, you are going down there, go out, heel deep, go back and that's it. Thank you. We are working simultaneously at the same time At the same time You give the ball to the right I'm attacking You're going out After this, both of us I'm giving the ball to the right here You give the ball to the left there You two change direction Go to the line, you go down there And the same meter Same from here to here No, Is that fine? Is that fine? Is that all of the game or not? Now you come to our here, you come to our down there In the same time, you two attack players You change places, same After pass, girls And the boss is over After this, you two from defense run to the center As a fast-break Two from attack, they are coming to defense Okay? Go! Yeah, yeah Go! Defense, sprint. Next two in attack, go. Go. Attack. Change. Go. Sprint. Next two, let's go. Change. Change, change, change. Sprint. Go, next two. Go, next two. I'm a sprint! Go, go, go, faster, faster! Faster, go! Get in the road! Faster! Groups of three, each one a ball. Each one. Every player. One of the most important things in playing defense is the use of your simultaneity. Simultaneity. It cannot happen that two of them are going this way and the other one is going that way. You have to be almost at this position on the other side. open the hand and move all the time. Now what we are going to do is very simple. The player in the middle is making the dictate. You are running forward, backward, left and right as you like. Just don't go down, go straight, straight, left and right. You have to follow him. The same way he is going, you are going and you are going. When I whistle, we will continue this with some next level of technique. Very simple, when I whistle, when you get the ball from this side, you get the ball. At the beginning we will do the same. Just make a pass between you and him and you and him. I will do the same. Nothing else. Ok. Ok. I'm dead. Gather, gather, gather! Go! Go, Now you can see some mistakes because one of the most important things in the first movement is it should be seen as it cannot happen that one is going one way the other is going the other way. For two of us we are like this very close. The other one is five meters from us. We have always to be at the same distance. This is what we want to achieve here. By making these movements, but the distance should always be the same. And if I'm going on the one side, it cannot happen that my player goes on the opposite side. This is the basic rule of defense. You go after him. And you go after him. After that, you switch positions to the center, but you move sideways. You move sideways and you save him. You move to the other side. And you save him. And you save him. And you save him. Go! Hit! Work, work, work! Watch the watch now! See now we have a big stock in the corner. It's the base of the monster now. We need to go down. It goes down. This way, if we were going back, we'd have a safe here. We need to move. Move all the time. This is why you are doing this on coordination levels all the time. Because of this. Third step, move, move, move all the time. And this is basically the dancing handstand. Short steps go out, take a foul, move back and forth. Let's go one more time. Go! The school is very fast. You will always be in this position and if I'm going to give you a play, I will make a feint and you are dead. There is no way you will stop me. You have to be very fast and you should always keep the distance between the players. Always. All the time, all the time, all the time. Now we are going to move into the groove and start the down basic exercise. One on one, continue this. You can go to the same position. Same position. Amazing. You're going to have a good time. Very good. Here, the other way. Don't make it back here. You're shooting. Make the pass right now, middle, high on. Okay. Move it. Go, go. Look, look. Why do I have to go? Why do I have to give it to him? Go, look, look. Give it to him. The link would be impossible. Look. This is what you're doing now. Open up. Tup, tup, tup. And I will . Tup, tup, tup. Tup, tup, tup. Let them move all the time. Go. Go, go, go. You can do this. Let him, let him. Push, push, push, push. Go, go, go. Get the ball. Get the ball. Get the ball. Go. Open. Thank you. One in the middle, one left, one right. Just open yourself straight. Show us your strength. It doesn't matter, it's your time. Now we start here. We start in the middle. You can go here. Fingers on the side. From the opposition. And these three of them, they're taking places all the time. Go, Oh, wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Go left, go right, make a walk. If you have to do it, if you're the last one, if you cannot catch them, okay, then make a walk. Or, if there is a stick that number 2 and number 4 are very aggressive, and pulls them into the middle where you have two tall guys, you can do it. But basically, what I want to do... Once again I'm talking about now playing with my players. The girls are at 170, we cannot block them. We have to be aggressive, we have to make a foul, we have to push them to make some kind of mistake or to shoot from any kind of position. Here you will get hit. You see the basic rules of the handbook. Player goes out and then without this thinking over here, he's running back. You lose the coordination. I'm going left, right, just like I want. Or wait for him and then start to handle with the player there. Make the first move. Make the first move. No two-turn step. Make the follow. Make the follow. Make the follow. Don't wait him to react. You react first. Go here, with two defense players here. Any two defense players here. One down there, one defense player down there. Go one of you down there with defense players. This area here, 22 against 2. After this, after this, go down there. It's becoming defensive. Go here, go here. You see? They're playing 2 against 2 here. After this, the backflip on that side. You'll be jumping back and forth inside when you're playing 2 against 2. After the shoot, back from here, go down there, become defense player. Once you are number 3 or 4, come to your number 2. Then at the end, full speed. Go, go, go. One up, one up. Top of it. Go, Go, go, go. Go there, there. Go there, there. I want you to go out, and run out, and go to the door. We have to be here in the middle. One field in the middle and two defense left. We have a plan here, one against one. We have a plan here, guys. We have a ball from the wing. Ball from the wing. One on one. Ball down there from the wing. One on one. One here. Then one against one there. Then here, two against two. Then after this, four against four. You three, you two against them. Once again. Take a hit on the other side of the field. Look where you are. From this position, me as a player, if he is playing in this position, he can kill you by scoring, by going one on one. This is go out. First position in 6-0 defense from all-man team. It's on seven meters. At least seven, even if not deeper. Seven and a half. And make a foul. Don't stand in six. You're too shallow here, everybody will kill you. Go and make a foul. All the time. Let's go. One on one, let's go. One on one. Back here. 101 down there, let's go. Do it, do it, do it, give it a go, give it a go. Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Okay, four against four, play, play. Play, four against four. Go, play. Stop. Always be close like you are playing some kind of a risk. Always close. This distance. Make it open your hand. Open it. Like this. I'm older. Attack him. Attack him. I'm older. Play. Play. Attack him. Good. Four against four. Give it all. Yeah, nobody did not fall here, come to the playmaker. Two of you are catching the pivot, both of you. Now we will continue with 3 against 3, 4 against 4, a little bit incorporated stuff. Moving. Let's not say fast break, but the backboard. We don't give them the only board because tomorrow they are going to run far too much. Right? Alright. Tomorrow we have a retreat in defense after you missed the ball. So we need a lot of running. We're doing this at the end. We'll just put that in defense six against six. We'll have to see this one. This is enough here now. We have to do a short goal. Korean defense 6-0. That means that number 2 is going out at the same time number 4 can be here. There's 4-2 defense for a long time. Because when you play 6-0 defense, basically 6-0 is nil. Only at the beginning of the game. Any moment when somebody's out it's 5-1. And from this one you can make 4-2, you can make 3-3 as you like. Defense or position of grip. You need to have, of course, good players number 25, that good defense one against one. Clever guy in the middle. You have to go over and then steal it. You have to go over and then steal it. You have three different players here. And the other groups, you mentioned the three groups. We have two groups of three players. Two on one side, one on the other side. In the corner. And the third group will be two of them. One left, one right. We'll put all the balls in the middle. Darko, you will help me please. Okay. When I whistle, the group down there in the corner, they're running like you're running a soccer game. First guy will get the ball, and make a first shot. you make the other cross and then you continue to play here 3 against 3 3 against 3, after the shoot, after the shoot, guys from defense just make a sprint to the center, like you're in fast attack and go back, you from attack stay here, ok? but when you come here, please, after you make this double cross here in the center and when you come here, don't finish the action in 5 seconds pull the ball, organize the attack, make some moves, make crossing, make double cross She made double cross, made this with the opposite cross behind like that. Let me just go ahead and let us all let us play and enjoy Make me something. What is unusual? Don't always do the same thing. No, I'm going to read easy Just develop your individual. That's okay. Okay, so three three in defense 3 2 1 2 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 Thank you. Ok, now, now, this is difficult, but we'll just make it with two groups, two players, they can take rest. I need in each group four players, and in each group should be one, two. Keep four of you, in each group, four. You are in defense, you two. Two left, two right. Down there. We are doing the same Triple cross He was taking the first ball and then lost the line We are playing 4 against 4 But what we want to play is aggressive defense Handball, not basketball Not volleyball, aggressive No one can come inside now Inside now is the mountain field Deadmill Go Go Play now! Come on! Come on! Keep pushing! Come on! Come on! Hey, Steve, Steve, yo! How's it going? I'm playing through the fighting spirit. I'm playing this game 3-0-4 against Ford. But the way that defense is winning. What I want to say. We make four teams. Two teams that play with this side. Four games, four games, Steve. We're playing down south. It's a semi-final. Semi-final. You are in attack. If you score the goal, you go in defense. Only in defense you have collected the points. You make a foul or they miss. First time coming to the final. 5 is the winner, then we play finals and then we play for the third position. It's extremely good for the fighting spirit of the team and believe me, they are fighting so hard that you can see the cut. That's what I like to do a lot, a lot, a lot. And it's good. Now we... Day by day, we have less and less players here. Until then, we'll say how much we'll have. But now we'll do it only with 3 groups of 3. Only here. Like I said, until 2 come first against 5 to increase this fighting spirit, what they are doing. And then, what we said, 6 against 6, that's it. I'm gonna finish it. because they are going to die. We are doing it this way. We are making three teams of three. Playing three against three here. On this road. But the rule is defense is winning. What does it mean? If you are in defence, first thing will be defence, ok? Ok. And if you stop the attack, normal way, cut the ball, intercept the ball, or they miss the goal, you will get the point. Ok. First come, come to five points, you win. But if you get the goal, when you score the goal, you are going in defence. That means that gives you the chance to get the points. Only in defence you are getting the points. Attack means only if you score. Of course, if you don't score, you are getting in the attack. All the time. One, two. Two, three. Two. Three. Hello, attack. Foul, 9 meters. I don't want the foul. Give the ball and run. Foul is a success on defense. Go! Thanks, change the goal. Yellow in defense. Unfortunately, we have only 10 players. If anybody of you would like, that's what we are supposed to do at the end. This defense. We're going to 5-1, 4-2. I will be glad down there. We have to finish this. It's the ethical move that Johnny and I, we can explain to you and tell you the idea of how we are doing this and what we are doing. Unfortunately, we cannot do it on the field because every step one player is dead more and more. But I hope that during this session, you can see my pressure also be stopped. The philosophy is that we have to combine defense with the passive-reactive offense. That in the passive-reactive field, in the war we got that control. The philosophy is that you can prepare yourself for these technical moments. The philosophy is that aggressivity is all let us push the players in the attack to shoot from 10 meters. Let us push the players from some positions that are not normally offered. Let us make them the... Mistakes and then you run to the fast break. Diagonal position go. Once again, if you want to play aggressive defense, everything is diagonal position on the flat. You cannot do it the opposite way. Of course, you have to figure out your players. You have to know exactly what each player can do. In Scandinavian way of defence, 6-0, they said that number 2 and number 5, they should be the best one, one on one. They should be the best one, one on one, so nobody can be... They said that position number 1 and number 6, they are the motors. They are moving all defence, one side to another. Here, during the game, if you see, one time we had to split the defence into two pieces. Because two of the players stayed and catch the pivot down there, Thank you. We have to be compact all the time, all the time, all the time. And aggressive. And most of all, this is very simple game. Once again, handball is very simple. You can make it complicated, so complicated that nobody understands. People with the highest IQ in the world, they will not understand what you are doing in the field, if you want to do it. Try to make it simple, try to make it very clear to the players, and try, just like Dragan Reinhardt once said, you will succeed in defense when the players start to like playing in defence. This will be your biggest success. When they will start to like to play in defence. When they will start to understand that this is what gives them the results. Because in my way of thinking, playing in defence is not only important because you are not getting the ball and you are falling off the break. It's one more thing. Good playing in defence gives you freedom in defence. You get here every time you go. But if you know here you will stop them. Anytime I will run back I will stop them in the first way. I will stop them. Then in attack I can play free. I can do all of my potential. So I will be not afraid. Because again basically you are not free. For free, each player has his angle. And the goalkeeper knows it. This player, when he... this is his angle. Usually in position, but usually down there. I have very simple explanation. Luka Modric against them. Left down, it's his angle. This is how he was shooting in the end. He was tired. So let us just give them the freedom by playing this. Let them give a lot of exercise. Even not so much. As you see this is the main reason. They need a lot of power. They need a lot of hard work to do like this. But I'm doing this again with the girls. And they are doing, of course there are a lot more of them, but they are doing in a higher speed than this one. Much higher speed than this one. And then, even the main team, coach or one team, the first thing I said, look, I cannot do it with one hand, but they are doing it with the other hand. But this is not something that you will do one training in one to one training in a week or even a year. This is something that you should do constantly. Constantly. This is because they are always the same thing. They are asking you, you know, what's more important? The tap or the handle? And every of us has our own philosophy. But the best thing is that handle, it's a mix of all these things. It's a ring. And this is the beauty of handle. Thank you. That one is mixed with the other. The defense is mixed with the transition. The transition is mixed with the passing leg. Then when you hit the ball, it's mixed with the treat in defense. And that gives us the chance to develop the players all the way. As you know, all of you, handball is the only game that is totally developed. Every muscle in the human body. Every. Not only legs like in football or only upper part of the chest. But every brain, all the time. So, it is not important. In my philosophy I don't measure the players in centimeters and in kilos. I measure them if they know how to play handball or not. Do they have a heart or not. Because for me, this is the strongest muscle in the human body. Not the gluteus, but this one. If you have this and you have connection with your brain, then you are going to be a player. Just like I told you, hold the dream, hold together. Thank you very much. If you have a question, ask it. Thank you very much for your hard work. I hope that you get some ideas what I would like for you to do. Handball cannot be played if you are not fully focused. If you are playing with 50% you have an idea. If you are not playing with 50% you have an idea. I love you only 50% from the beginning, I don't care. I love you only if you make good games, if you don't make bad games. So you have to love the game. Basic thing, you have to love the game. If you love the game, you will love all the parts of the game. And extremely important, extremely important, You're welcome. Not to hate, but to love to play in defence. I told you, it will give you freedom in the centre. Let's go. Scramble, FOUR!

I now specialize for the female but I was working half of my career with men team too so it doesn't matter one or the other. basic thing is always the same. If you are going to play defense, you have to play with all your heart. My way of thinking about handball is very simple. Defense, you play with your heart, with your brain, in the attack.

But all the time, all the time, you have to give 100%. Less than this is not good enough. For me, in handball exists what I call Holy Trinity. I can, I want, and I'm able to. I can, it's technical knowledge.

If you have technical skills, I can do it too. Second one, the bonus part of the field, I want the mental part. Without this, you don't have anything. Third part, I'm able to do it, it's physical fitness. One without the other.

If you have only two of these things, you're average. Even the worst part, if you don't have the mental part, don't have this wish, this want to explain and to make yourself better better from day to day. I'm happy. I need only 20-30 years of my life to become a last year. I was voted the best Croatian coach of the year.

And they gave me all kinds of medals after 30 years. That means they are waiting for me to say goodbye. But it doesn't matter. What you are going to do today, I hope that you will enjoy it, that you will see something that is useful for you, what is useful to take with you, what doesn't fit you, take it away. And just, again, as a player, do the best that you can.

Okay? Let's start. We will start later by little.

Basically, he's here in half a court. Passing him with a couple of little balls. Run him any way you can. Run backwards, run forwards, run a couple of right. On my whistle, the players that have the ball, go one, but easy.

One on one with one player, then another player without the ball, then third player without the ball, and so on. When I whistle the next time, continue with passes, okay? Let's go.

Thank you. Any other player without the ball. Any other.

Just move. Go. But they didn't pass.

Pass. Go, go. When one of you is opening yourself down, what do you do? One of you has a ball. I'm just throwing the ball left, right, whatever I want.

The ball can drop only once. You can't drop it with your knees. Go, go.

Use your knees. Use your knees. Go. Let's go. Thank you.

Thank you. We are passing the ball, still you are winning with the couples only. When I whistle, put the ball on the floor, turn around from the ball, you are the first player. Behind you, you are your couple. Who is the back player, he has to pass the ball.

You do it, stop it, and anywhere you are. In the first action, it's looking like this. You're looking at the ball. And that's the problem. When they will be the second one, then you look at him and try to stop him.

Okay, continue. Let's go. Here we say you're going to fall back.

You're here in a moment. You're here again. Up the corner, Americanas. Congratulations. In a moment, defense.

You're here again. You're here again. Americanas.

Two groups of six. Two groups of six. Each group we need four balls.

Four players with the balls. Make a square. Square of three meters. Task is very simple.

Player in attack. Make changes to that room and make double passes all of them. That's local, that's the matter. Your job is to prevent the square-spot monopoly.

And to follow him all the way. In full speed, we are doing this for 15 seconds, let me change. Go! You're beating him.

Hit the ball! That's the goal. Hit the ball. Hit the turn, hit the turn. Hit the turn, hit the turn.

Come on. There you go, you got this. Get the turn and hit the goal.

That's the turn, that's good. Two groups, left back, right back. Normal. Don't go too far away. Normal penetrating, pass the ball.

I'm right back, down there is the left. I'm going there. Penetrating, pass the ball. After I pass the ball, I'm going to the opposite post. Down there.

Okay. Change of direction very fast. Touch the post, pass it to the direction.

Come here, to the cone. Go. You need to come in a moment and after you come in, you need to swing.

That's it. At the end of the line. Once at a time. Okay?

We are doing the same but again, always like this, one depends on the other one. See this one. Again, the most important thing when you are in defensive agility is changing the positions all the time.

You are changing direction, you are changing the speed. You never go in the same pattern, just like this. You have to go there, there, there, there, there. This is why we are doing this.

Go straight, change direction, change direction, make a sprint, go to a faster break. Second part what is important in defense, always we make training trains, we have to make faster break at the same time. Now, same exercise, go down there, you are going down there, go out, heel deep, go back and that's it. Thank you. We are working simultaneously at the same time At the same time You give the ball to the right I'm attacking You're going out After this, both of us I'm giving the ball to the right here You give the ball to the left there You two change direction Go to the line, you go down there And the same meter Same from here to here No, Is that fine?

Is that fine? Is that all of the game or not? Now you come to our here, you come to our down there In the same time, you two attack players You change places, same After pass, girls And the boss is over After this, you two from defense run to the center As a fast-break Two from attack, they are coming to defense Okay?

Go! Yeah, yeah Go! Defense, sprint.

Next two in attack, go. Go. Attack.

Change. Go. Sprint. Next two, let's go. Change.

Change, change, change. Sprint. Go, next two. Go, next two. I'm a sprint!

Go, go, go, faster, faster! Faster, go! Get in the road!

Faster! Groups of three, each one a ball. Each one. Every player. One of the most important things in playing defense is the use of your simultaneity.

Simultaneity. It cannot happen that two of them are going this way and the other one is going that way. You have to be almost at this position on the other side. open the hand and move all the time. Now what we are going to do is very simple.

The player in the middle is making the dictate. You are running forward, backward, left and right as you like. Just don't go down, go straight, straight, left and right.

You have to follow him. The same way he is going, you are going and you are going. When I whistle, we will continue this with some next level of technique.

Very simple, when I whistle, when you get the ball from this side, you get the ball. At the beginning we will do the same. Just make a pass between you and him and you and him.

I will do the same. Nothing else. Ok.

Ok. I'm dead. Gather, gather, gather! Go! Go, Now you can see some mistakes because one of the most important things in the first movement is it should be seen as it cannot happen that one is going one way the other is going the other way.

For two of us we are like this very close. The other one is five meters from us. We have always to be at the same distance.

This is what we want to achieve here. By making these movements, but the distance should always be the same. And if I'm going on the one side, it cannot happen that my player goes on the opposite side. This is the basic rule of defense.

You go after him. And you go after him. After that, you switch positions to the center, but you move sideways.

You move sideways and you save him. You move to the other side. And you save him.

And you save him. And you save him. Go! Hit!

Work, work, work! Watch the watch now! See now we have a big stock in the corner.

It's the base of the monster now. We need to go down. It goes down.

This way, if we were going back, we'd have a safe here. We need to move. Move all the time.

This is why you are doing this on coordination levels all the time. Because of this. Third step, move, move, move all the time.

And this is basically the dancing handstand. Short steps go out, take a foul, move back and forth. Let's go one more time. Go!

The school is very fast. You will always be in this position and if I'm going to give you a play, I will make a feint and you are dead. There is no way you will stop me.

You have to be very fast and you should always keep the distance between the players. Always. All the time, all the time, all the time.

Now we are going to move into the groove and start the down basic exercise. One on one, continue this. You can go to the same position.

Same position. Amazing. You're going to have a good time.

Very good. Here, the other way. Don't make it back here.

You're shooting. Make the pass right now, middle, high on. Okay.

Move it. Go, go. Look, look.

Why do I have to go? Why do I have to give it to him? Go, look, look.

Give it to him. The link would be impossible. Look. This is what you're doing now. Open up.

Tup, tup, tup. And I will . Tup, tup, tup. Tup, tup, tup. Let them move all the time.

Go. Go, go, go. You can do this. Let him, let him.

Push, push, push, push. Go, go, go. Get the ball. Get the ball. Get the ball.

Go. Open. Thank you.

One in the middle, one left, one right. Just open yourself straight. Show us your strength. It doesn't matter, it's your time. Now we start here.

We start in the middle. You can go here. Fingers on the side. From the opposition. And these three of them, they're taking places all the time.

Go, Oh, wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay.

Go left, go right, make a walk. If you have to do it, if you're the last one, if you cannot catch them, okay, then make a walk. Or, if there is a stick that number 2 and number 4 are very aggressive, and pulls them into the middle where you have two tall guys, you can do it.

But basically, what I want to do... Once again I'm talking about now playing with my players. The girls are at 170, we cannot block them. We have to be aggressive, we have to make a foul, we have to push them to make some kind of mistake or to shoot from any kind of position. Here you will get hit.

You see the basic rules of the handbook. Player goes out and then without this thinking over here, he's running back. You lose the coordination. I'm going left, right, just like I want.

Or wait for him and then start to handle with the player there. Make the first move. Make the first move. No two-turn step.

Make the follow. Make the follow. Make the follow.

Don't wait him to react. You react first. Go here, with two defense players here.

Any two defense players here. One down there, one defense player down there. Go one of you down there with defense players.

This area here, 22 against 2. After this, after this, go down there. It's becoming defensive. Go here, go here.

You see? They're playing 2 against 2 here. After this, the backflip on that side. You'll be jumping back and forth inside when you're playing 2 against 2. After the shoot, back from here, go down there, become defense player. Once you are number 3 or 4, come to your number 2. Then at the end, full speed.

Go, go, go. One up, one up. Top of it.

Go, Go, go, go. Go there, there. Go there, there.

I want you to go out, and run out, and go to the door. We have to be here in the middle. One field in the middle and two defense left. We have a plan here, one against one.

We have a plan here, guys. We have a ball from the wing. Ball from the wing.

One on one. Ball down there from the wing. One on one.

One here. Then one against one there. Then here, two against two. Then after this, four against four.

You three, you two against them. Once again. Take a hit on the other side of the field. Look where you are.

From this position, me as a player, if he is playing in this position, he can kill you by scoring, by going one on one. This is go out. First position in 6-0 defense from all-man team.

It's on seven meters. At least seven, even if not deeper. Seven and a half.

And make a foul. Don't stand in six. You're too shallow here, everybody will kill you.

Go and make a foul. All the time. Let's go. One on one, let's go.

One on one. Back here. 101 down there, let's go. Do it, do it, do it, give it a go, give it a go. Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Okay, four against four, play, play. Play, four against four. Go, play. Stop.

Always be close like you are playing some kind of a risk. Always close. This distance.

Make it open your hand. Open it. Like this.

I'm older. Attack him. Attack him. I'm older. Play.

Play. Attack him. Good.

Four against four. Give it all. Yeah, nobody did not fall here, come to the playmaker.

Two of you are catching the pivot, both of you. Now we will continue with 3 against 3, 4 against 4, a little bit incorporated stuff. Moving.

Let's not say fast break, but the backboard. We don't give them the only board because tomorrow they are going to run far too much. Right? Alright.

Tomorrow we have a retreat in defense after you missed the ball. So we need a lot of running. We're doing this at the end.

We'll just put that in defense six against six. We'll have to see this one. This is enough here now.

We have to do a short goal. Korean defense 6-0. That means that number 2 is going out at the same time number 4 can be here.

There's 4-2 defense for a long time. Because when you play 6-0 defense, basically 6-0 is nil. Only at the beginning of the game. Any moment when somebody's out it's 5-1. And from this one you can make 4-2, you can make 3-3 as you like.

Defense or position of grip. You need to have, of course, good players number 25, that good defense one against one. Clever guy in the middle.

You have to go over and then steal it. You have to go over and then steal it. You have three different players here.

And the other groups, you mentioned the three groups. We have two groups of three players. Two on one side, one on the other side.

In the corner. And the third group will be two of them. One left, one right.

We'll put all the balls in the middle. Darko, you will help me please. Okay. When I whistle, the group down there in the corner, they're running like you're running a soccer game. First guy will get the ball, and make a first shot.

you make the other cross and then you continue to play here 3 against 3 3 against 3, after the shoot, after the shoot, guys from defense just make a sprint to the center, like you're in fast attack and go back, you from attack stay here, ok? but when you come here, please, after you make this double cross here in the center and when you come here, don't finish the action in 5 seconds pull the ball, organize the attack, make some moves, make crossing, make double cross She made double cross, made this with the opposite cross behind like that. Let me just go ahead and let us all let us play and enjoy Make me something.

What is unusual? Don't always do the same thing. No, I'm going to read easy Just develop your individual.

That's okay. Okay, so three three in defense 3 2 1 2 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 Thank you. Ok, now, now, this is difficult, but we'll just make it with two groups, two players, they can take rest.

I need in each group four players, and in each group should be one, two. Keep four of you, in each group, four. You are in defense, you two. Two left, two right. Down there.

We are doing the same Triple cross He was taking the first ball and then lost the line We are playing 4 against 4 But what we want to play is aggressive defense Handball, not basketball Not volleyball, aggressive No one can come inside now Inside now is the mountain field Deadmill Go Go Play now! Come on! Come on!

Keep pushing! Come on! Come on! Hey, Steve, Steve, yo!

How's it going? I'm playing through the fighting spirit. I'm playing this game 3-0-4 against Ford. But the way that defense is winning.

What I want to say. We make four teams. Two teams that play with this side. Four games, four games, Steve.

We're playing down south. It's a semi-final. Semi-final.

You are in attack. If you score the goal, you go in defense. Only in defense you have collected the points.

You make a foul or they miss. First time coming to the final. 5 is the winner, then we play finals and then we play for the third position.

It's extremely good for the fighting spirit of the team and believe me, they are fighting so hard that you can see the cut. That's what I like to do a lot, a lot, a lot. And it's good. Now we... Day by day, we have less and less players here.

Until then, we'll say how much we'll have. But now we'll do it only with 3 groups of 3. Only here. Like I said, until 2 come first against 5 to increase this fighting spirit, what they are doing.

And then, what we said, 6 against 6, that's it. I'm gonna finish it. because they are going to die. We are doing it this way. We are making three teams of three.

Playing three against three here. On this road. But the rule is defense is winning. What does it mean?

If you are in defence, first thing will be defence, ok? Ok. And if you stop the attack, normal way, cut the ball, intercept the ball, or they miss the goal, you will get the point. Ok.

First come, come to five points, you win. But if you get the goal, when you score the goal, you are going in defence. That means that gives you the chance to get the points. Only in defence you are getting the points. Attack means only if you score.

Of course, if you don't score, you are getting in the attack. All the time. One, two.

Two, three. Two. Three.

Hello, attack. Foul, 9 meters. I don't want the foul. Give the ball and run.

Foul is a success on defense. Go! Thanks, change the goal. Yellow in defense.

Unfortunately, we have only 10 players. If anybody of you would like, that's what we are supposed to do at the end. This defense. We're going to 5-1, 4-2.

I will be glad down there. We have to finish this. It's the ethical move that Johnny and I, we can explain to you and tell you the idea of how we are doing this and what we are doing. Unfortunately, we cannot do it on the field because every step one player is dead more and more.

But I hope that during this session, you can see my pressure also be stopped. The philosophy is that we have to combine defense with the passive-reactive offense. That in the passive-reactive field, in the war we got that control. The philosophy is that you can prepare yourself for these technical moments. The philosophy is that aggressivity is all let us push the players in the attack to shoot from 10 meters.

Let us push the players from some positions that are not normally offered. Let us make them the... Mistakes and then you run to the fast break.

Diagonal position go. Once again, if you want to play aggressive defense, everything is diagonal position on the flat. You cannot do it the opposite way. Of course, you have to figure out your players. You have to know exactly what each player can do.

In Scandinavian way of defence, 6-0, they said that number 2 and number 5, they should be the best one, one on one. They should be the best one, one on one, so nobody can be... They said that position number 1 and number 6, they are the motors.

They are moving all defence, one side to another. Here, during the game, if you see, one time we had to split the defence into two pieces. Because two of the players stayed and catch the pivot down there, Thank you.

We have to be compact all the time, all the time, all the time. And aggressive. And most of all, this is very simple game.

Once again, handball is very simple. You can make it complicated, so complicated that nobody understands. People with the highest IQ in the world, they will not understand what you are doing in the field, if you want to do it.

Try to make it simple, try to make it very clear to the players, and try, just like Dragan Reinhardt once said, you will succeed in defense when the players start to like playing in defence. This will be your biggest success. When they will start to like to play in defence.

When they will start to understand that this is what gives them the results. Because in my way of thinking, playing in defence is not only important because you are not getting the ball and you are falling off the break. It's one more thing.

Good playing in defence gives you freedom in defence. You get here every time you go. But if you know here you will stop them. Anytime I will run back I will stop them in the first way. I will stop them.

Then in attack I can play free. I can do all of my potential. So I will be not afraid. Because again basically you are not free.

For free, each player has his angle. And the goalkeeper knows it. This player, when he... this is his angle. Usually in position, but usually down there.

I have very simple explanation. Luka Modric against them. Left down, it's his angle.

This is how he was shooting in the end. He was tired. So let us just give them the freedom by playing this.

Let them give a lot of exercise. Even not so much. As you see this is the main reason.

They need a lot of power. They need a lot of hard work to do like this. But I'm doing this again with the girls.

And they are doing, of course there are a lot more of them, but they are doing in a higher speed than this one. Much higher speed than this one. And then, even the main team, coach or one team, the first thing I said, look, I cannot do it with one hand, but they are doing it with the other hand.

But this is not something that you will do one training in one to one training in a week or even a year. This is something that you should do constantly. Constantly. This is because they are always the same thing. They are asking you, you know, what's more important?

The tap or the handle? And every of us has our own philosophy. But the best thing is that handle, it's a mix of all these things. It's a ring. And this is the beauty of handle.

Thank you. That one is mixed with the other. The defense is mixed with the transition. The transition is mixed with the passing leg.

Then when you hit the ball, it's mixed with the treat in defense. And that gives us the chance to develop the players all the way. As you know, all of you, handball is the only game that is totally developed. Every muscle in the human body. Every.

Not only legs like in football or only upper part of the chest. But every brain, all the time. So, it is not important.

In my philosophy I don't measure the players in centimeters and in kilos. I measure them if they know how to play handball or not. Do they have a heart or not.

Because for me, this is the strongest muscle in the human body. Not the gluteus, but this one. If you have this and you have connection with your brain, then you are going to be a player. Just like I told you, hold the dream, hold together. Thank you very much.

If you have a question, ask it. Thank you very much for your hard work. I hope that you get some ideas what I would like for you to do. Handball cannot be played if you are not fully focused. If you are playing with 50% you have an idea.

If you are not playing with 50% you have an idea. I love you only 50% from the beginning, I don't care. I love you only if you make good games, if you don't make bad games.

So you have to love the game. Basic thing, you have to love the game. If you love the game, you will love all the parts of the game.

And extremely important, extremely important, You're welcome. Not to hate, but to love to play in defence. I told you, it will give you freedom in the centre.

Let's go. Scramble, FOUR!

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Handball Defensive Strategies