National Women's Handball Team Met with the Media

The National Team players and technical staff, who filmed the media day, met with members of the media and answered questions before the matches against Bulgaria.

National Women's Handball Team Head Coach Costica Buceschi said that the matches against Bulgaria are very important in order to participate in EURO 24 and noted that they want to participate in the European Championship by achieving a first in Turkey's history, so they need to work hard.

Reminding that they held two separate camps in the past months before this camp, Romanian coach Buceschi said, “We held two separate camps before this camp. We wanted to benefit from all the players by gathering the A National and A2 National teams together. “We want to show good handball against Bulgaria.” said.

Betül Yılmaz, captain of the National Team, said that they were well prepared and that they wanted to go to the European Championship. Yılmaz said, “As a team, we are ready, willing and excited. We are hopeful to break new ground for our community. Even though we are seen as favorites against Bulgaria, we have to go out on the field and win the matches. There are many young players in the team. This adds great excitement to the team. It gives hope for the future. “he said.

Referring to the Ankara audience, the experienced player noted that the audience in the stands supported them as the 8th Player, and that they wanted to get the support of the audience again, and invited sports fans from Ankara to the stands for the Bulgaria match.

Our National Women's Handball Team will play against Bulgaria in its third match in the group at Arena Shumen in Shumen. The match, which will be broadcast live on TRT Spor Yıldız, will start at 19.00 GMT.

Our National Team will play its fourth match in the group against Bulgaria in Ankara on March 3. THF Prof. Dr. The match, which will be played at Yaşar Sevim Sports Hall, will start at 17.00 and will be broadcast live on TRT Spor Yıldız Channel.

The dates of the remaining matches of the National Women's Handball Team in the EHF EURO 2024 6th Qualifying Group are as follows:
28 February 2024 Bulgaria – Türkiye
3 March 2024 Türkiye – Bulgaria
3 April 2024 Türkiye – Montenegro
7 April 2024 Serbia-Türkiye

National Women's Handball Team Camp Squad:
Goalkeeper: Merve Erbektaş (Kastamonu Bld.), Selen Akalın (Yenimahalle Bld.), Yaren Göker (Kastamonu Bld.)
Left Quarterback: Aslı İskit Çalışkan (CS Magura Cisnadie), Betül Yılmaz (Kastamonu Bld.), Diğdem Hoşgör (Konyaaltı Bld.), Sevgi Kalyoncuoğlu (Yenimahalle Bld.)
Left wing: Beyza İrem Türkoğlu (MKS Lublin), Ceylan Aydemir (Konyaaltı Bld.)
Middle Quarterback: Betül Karaarslan (Yenimahalle Bld.), Dönegül Bozdoğan (Bursa Metropolitan Bld.), Gülcan Tügel (Yenimahalle Bld.), Yasemin Sahin (Kastamonu Bld.)
Right Quarterback: Edanur Cetin (Konyaaltı Bld.), Zeynepnur Ulukoz (Görele Bld.)
Right wing: Ayşenur Kara (Görele Bld.), Bilgenur Öztürk (Bursa Metropolitan Bld.), Emine Gökdemir (Kastamonu Bld.)
Pivot: Ceren Demirçelen (Bursa Metropolitan Bld.), Cansu Akalın (Kastamonu Bld.), Fatma Akgün (Armada Praxis Yalıkavak), Nurceren Göktepe (Kastamonu Bld.)

Technical crew: Costica Buceschi (Head Coach), M.Serkan İnci (Coach), Yeliz Yılmaz (Trainer), Ragıp Demirman (Goalkeeper Coach), İlker Kurtulmuş (Sports Performance Coach), Halit Selçuk (Physiotherapist), Adnan Ekmekçi (Masseur), Bora Serter ( Administrative Manager)