Korporaal wants to win the European Championship final (EK-finale), but sees the European Championship as a stepping stone to the World Championship
TeamNL Korfbal plays its first match at the European Championship in the Czech Republic on Friday 16 October. In the KNKV Magazine, national coach Ard Korporaal and player Nikki Boerhout look ahead together.
Automatically translated from Dutch. Read the Dutch original.
Korporaal also sees the European Championship as a step towards the World Championship on home soil. "Of course we want to play well at this European Championship and win that final, but at the same time it is also a stepping stone towards the World Championship", he says. "Two and a half years ago we set the goal of playing the best korfball we have ever played at the World Championship. We need to be working on that already."
It will be Boerhout's first European Championship with TeamNL Korfbal. She previously played at The World Games. "The World Games were my first tournament. With all the different sports, the athletes' village and everything around it, that felt very big. The European Championship feels a bit smaller, also because it's no longer all new. But I'm still really looking forward to it."
