Just like in Brazil, not all Pan American events are familiar to local audiences. One of the sports that Canadians have little contact with is handball and the press has had difficulty explaining the dynamics of the sport.
One of the leading Canadian news sites The star summarized handball as “water polo played on land” and noted the sport’s popularity in Europe and South America, saying it continues to gain ground in Canada.
Canadian national team goalkeeper Kimberley Ewanovich, who plays professionally in Norway, one of the world’s leading handball centers, tried to help the report explain the sport.
“In Europe, when you’re six years old, if you don’t have a football at your feet, you have a handball in your hands. The simplest way to explain how it works is to say that it “It’s water polo on the ground,” he said. Ewanovich.
This sport has also been compared to basketball, because it is played on a closed court, but with a smaller ball, and also to football, because its objective is to score goals.
In fact, football also appears in the report, compared in terms of popularity to handball. According to The starthe sport rivals football in popularity in Europe and South America.
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