CFR Rapid Bucharest, Incredibly Close to the Trophy

As you might already know, on March 16, the feminine handball team CFR Rapid Bucharest has played on the first round of the Challenge Cup quarters, with the German team DJK Trier. The results obtained by our girls while playing with the German girls give great chance for the qualification in the last but one action of the competition.
According to the declarations of the two coaches, the sportswomen of the duet Vasile Margulescu - Constantin Popescu have had the best performance for the last years, imposing themselves with a nine goals difference in front of the adversaries: the table has shown a final score of 35-26(17-11). For the railway team Elena Moise has scored the most (8 goals), while among the guests the player Svetlana Minevskaia (Bielorussian in origins) has been most active (7 goals).
Before the match, our handball players have declared that they were a bit afraid of their adversaries in the quarters, due to the performances that they have registered in the previous years, and also due to the fact that they are trained by the technician Dago Leukefeld who is also in charge with the training of the national team of Germany. Otherwise, we have to remind the fact that DJK Trier is placed on the third position in the first division of Germany.
Thus, the well training of the German girls did inspired our players, who have prepared the game in a special way. The training in the last week has been focused especially on fixed counter-attack phases, and also on an advanced defense, in the proximity of the 9 meters semicircle. The enforcement of a new strategy and the well appraisal of those techniques have taken by surprise the guest players, as well as the German coach. "We have analyzed the performance of the Romanian girls on a video tape, but we were taken by surprise by today game, which has been completely different", the technician Dago Leukefeld was forced to confess at the end of the game.
At the end of the game, Mr. Mihai Zaharia, the president of Rapid Sportive Club, very happy about the victory, has declared: "Since 1989, since I am in charge with the club, I have seen many performances of my team, but none is comparable with this against Trier. If I take the time to think about it, neither in 1993, when we have won IHF Cup, and nor in 2000, when we have brought in Bucharest the City Cup, they have succeeded such a performance. The girls have been exceptional!" Elena Moise, the captain of the railway team, says, on her turn, that, "after such a victory, at nine goals difference, we have forgotten about the defeats suffered in the internal championship and that we are only on the sixth position. We would like to keep up with the good work in the European cups, and to win the trophy".
In case of the victory adjudicated in the dispute with the German team, Rapid players could play in the semifinals with the girls from Remin Deva, who are also qualified - after their success with 30-18 (12-7) in front of the Polonaise girls from Start Elblag. So, there are still chances that one of the two Romanian teams to win the final dispute. Moreover, there are chances to watch a Romanian final of the Challenge Cup!