A lovely story

A Spanish handball player from the Liga Asobal goes to see a former team-mate who played for the same club last season. This former team-mate is playing in Spain today with his club in a European Cup Winners' Cup tie, and the Spanish player, whose match was on Wednesday, uses his free time to travel to a town more than 600 kilometres from his home. His wife, a saint, agrees that one of their few free weekends should be devoted to handball—just one more... What a wonderful gesture for a team-mate: going to see him during his visit to Spain.

But the best is yet to come.

When the match ends and his team are knocked out, the former team-mate makes his way towards the stand where the Spanish player and his wife are sitting. The Spaniard, watching the end of the match and the players leaving for the dressing rooms, hears a spectator sitting behind him in the stand say, "What the hell is that Slovenian doing with a shirt that says -WE ARE ASOBAL-?"

Indeed, I am talking about MARKO OSTIR—sorry, MR MARKO OSTIR—and ANGEL FERNANDEZ—sorry, MR ANGEL FERNANDEZ. Two icons of our promotion, two MEN who gave everything to do their very best and take us to the heavens.

Well done, Angel, for making friends in handball, which is the best thing one gets from this sport; and very, very well done, Marko Ostir, who wore our colours beneath his playing shirt—the symbol of the greatest achievement of this organisation in the last forty years. For a player who spent just one season with us to wear our crest and our finest motto in Europe makes him, to me, the embodiment of what we aspire to from the players who represent us. Great on and off the court.

Thank you, Ángel, and thank you, Marko, for being even better off the court than in the 6–0 defensive wall.

Translation produced using artificial intelligence.