The European version of handball has been staging its men’s World Cup in Denmark and Germany over the past few weeks, and German commentators in particular have been drawing parallels between theconduct of the game’s players and their brothers on the soccer field. Soccer’s whining, theatrical and very well-paid stars have been unfavorably compared with the apparently down-to-earth, modest andsporting young men of handball, who nonetheless spend much of the game wrestling each other to the floor.
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