Interview with Irish Olympic Handball captain Alexander Kulesh
By Gerard Mulreaney ( @gerardmulreaney ) The Irish Olympic Men’s handball team will be participating in the 3rd edition of the IHF (International Handball Federation) Emerging Nations Championship, which will be held in the Georgian capital Tblisi, from the 8th to the 16th of June. This is the third time that Ireland will participate in the competition, having finished 13th in 2015 and 12th in 2017. When the draw was made Ireland were drawn in Group B, along with the hosts Georgia, Bulgaria, Malta, USA and Nigeria. When Irish people think of handball as a sport they conjure up images of two players running around a 40x20 alley hitting a small ball off a wall, however on this occasion it’s Olympic handball that we’re talking about. Olympic Handball is played by two teams of seven players who pass the ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores most g