Nat'l team player learning the nuances in Germany

The following is a translation of an article featuring Jordan Fithian, an American playing handball in Germany for ESV Weil. Read the original story here

WEIL AM RHEIN - The popularity of the handball championship booms in Germany in contrast to handball in the United States, a shadowy existence. Only 40 teams exercise this sport in the new world. There are sure strivings to make handball in the United States presentable.

American Jordan Fithian, of Boston, wants to contribute and therefore plays for ESV Weil. In college, he played basketball, and first started playing handball because of his fiancée, Jennifer. "In the United States, only about 40 teams play handball," said 24-year-old Fithian. With his stately height of nearly two meters, he was quickly nominated for the US national team. He came with his future wife to Germany in order to learn the nuances of the game. Jennifer plays in TV Grenzach while Jordan reinforces ESV.

"In the ESV is it meanwhile to a valuable player become,"  said sport leader Roland Christian.  Through his loose type and its joie de vivre, he supports not only as an athlete, but rather also as an energetic person  the team that fought alongside in the past year yet for the class receipt in the south bath league.  The ESV stands presently on the fifth place with tendency towards the top.  Because the sympathetic US Boy is evidently  comfortable, has yet already considerably develop further itself it under trainer Borko Jovicic.  It is very training diligent and practiced also already often alone with the trainer. 

"The team plays good hand ball and the partners are very nice and help me where they can," said Fithian.  It would like two to three years already yet in because remain in order to gather amply experience and to learn know so many tricks how possible. 

Fithian sees his time here as a personal challenge in order to bring the hand ball sport in its homeland further ahead and to make it popular.  He counts basketball as well as handball as hobbies. Anyone who would like to see the US American play should on Saturday, 23rd of January, in which sports hall in the Egerstraße come:  There the next home game against HC Elgersweier, the current table third finds, instead of - naturally with Jordan Fithian.