Probably the greatest goalies in handball world, Andreas Palicka has signed contract with Norwegian powerhouse Kolstad IL. The 38-years outdated Swedish goalkeeper is shifting from PSG Handball to Trondheim in summer season 2025 with signed two years deal.
– The truth that it was a sporting venture that I imagine in was in fact essential. Kolstad confirmed fairly early on that they had been concerned about getting me, that they’d a very good plan to get me – and my household – to Trondheim. Household is essential; we have now lived overseas for a few years now, and that the household scenario was essential to us, Kolstad understood that very early on. The membership was due to this fact in a position to current a plan to us that we felt was very motivating and fascinating. So Kolstad was very succesful there.
– I’ve really described myself and what kind of goalkeeper I’m by what I’ve achieved as a world goalkeeper for 20 years. I play rather a lot with emotion and put plenty of vitality into my handball. I humorously say that my handball is 30 p.c handball goalkeeper and 70 p.c emotion. After all, that’s not a wholly appropriate image, however there’s a lot in it, says Andreas and provides:
-I additionally set excessive requirements for my teammates, for an expert angle. And, I can say that I’m a winner. I’m the goalkeeper I’m and the individual I’m with the qualities I’ve. A very powerful factor for fulfillment in handball is the individual behind the participant.
– I believe it’s a privilege to be allowed to proceed as an expert athlete if you find yourself 40 years outdated, which I might be when my contract with Kolstad expires. Now, after the Olympics and till the top of November (in PSG), issues have gone extremely properly for me. To be a very good handball goalkeeper requires plenty of expertise. You possibly can play just a few years “further” and nonetheless preserve a really excessive degree. I’ve instructed myself that the day I can’t contribute on the sector with who I’m, I’ll give up – however I haven’t had that feeling this season. I nonetheless really feel an extremely sturdy motivation to play handball. And so we landed this settlement with Kolstad, which feels very, excellent for the entire household.
Andreas Palicka has actually been a job mannequin for a lot of goalkeepers. However has he himself had any goalkeepers to look as much as?
– I’ve had two very massive “companions” to my profession; Mats Olsson and Thomas Svensson, ever since I used to be little. Additionally, an outdated nice Serbian goalkeeper, Dejan Peric, has been essential to me and my profession. The three have been with me since my youth. I’ve additionally had the distinction of working with Thomas and Mats within the nationwide workforce.
Again to Kolstad and the pending two-year contract (2025 to 2027). The quantity 12 shirt has been Andreas’s in lots of earlier golf equipment. It’s vacant in Kolstad; that’s not such a foul factor…
– I haven’t talked to Jostein about that but, however, sure, it’s my want to proceed my profession in Kolstad with jersey 12. It’s the jersey quantity I really feel most assured in and which I’ve had all through my profession after shifting overseas. It looks like my “dwelling jersey” and which I want to have in Kolstad as properly.
Basic Supervisor Jostein Sivertsen confirms that jersey quantity 12 can have “Palicka” on the again subsequent season.
