Best of Lasse Svan handball Euro 2022
Channel: Handball World
Date: 27/06/2022

Best of Lasse Svan handball Euro 2022
One of the most capped players in 🇩🇰 Denmark's history, Lasse Svan, will play his last match for the national team this week ⭐ And what a career 🙌  
With Denmark, Svan has taken a collection of medals and been ✅ World champion x 2 ✅ Olympic champion ✅ European champion 👏
Lasse Svan Danish handball player 
THIS IS ME: LASSE SVAN
A great handball career is approaching its end. Lasse Svan – Danish international, GOG star, SG Flensburg-Handewitt evergreen – will call it a career in June. In this episode of our This is Me… series, the 38-year-old looks back, but also forward as he shares his opinions and emotions with the readers of eurohandball.com.

THIS IS ME: LASSE SVAN
I'm from the small town of Store Heddinge - and as a boy I tried many different sports before finally taking up handball at Sierslev HK. Before I was twice Seeland champion in billiards. At the age of 19 I finally switched to GOG in Gudme and today I'm 38 years old and have only played for two clubs: GOG and SG Flensburg-Handewitt.

In the six years with GOG, we won two Danish championships and three cups - and I became a Danish international. Now the end of my career is imminent, I've already said goodbye to the national team. My last dream is to compete again at the EHF FINAL4 in Cologne next month. Being there in June would be the very last games of my career.

During my long time in Flensburg, I saw a lot of outstanding players saying goodbye, and it's best when you go with a title, like Thomas Mogensen, Jacob Heinl and Tobias Karlsson who said farewell as German champions. It's something special to win a trophy in your last game and winning the EHF Champions League is the last chance for a trophy in my last season.

When all my teammates say that we still want to win this and that for Lasse Svan, that shows the great appreciation the team has for me, they all want to give me the perfect farewell. It's amazing when everyone thinks of you.

The fact that I've won all the important titles in handball is simply unbelievable - I'm world champion, European champion, Olympic champion, won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the Champions League, became German champion and German cup winner. I stand in line with Niklas Landin, Nikola Karabatic, Thierry Omeyer, Daniel Narcisse and Joel Abati. If someone had told me that a few years ago, I would have just shaken my head.

I think back to a conversation when my best friends Thomas Mogensen and Anders Eggert and I stood together after winning the EHF Champions League in Cologne. In 2012 we had become European champions together, now we had won the EHF Champions League. Then I said jokingly: Now we only need gold at the World Championships and the Olympics, then we can end our careers. In 2016 and 2019 I also won these titles - simply unbelievable. That would never have been a realistic goal, I would never have thought it possible that I would be able to experience it one day. And then two more German Bundesliga trophies with the SG.

All of this makes me incredibly proud. I'll be able to look back on it after my career - not many have achieved what I've achieved, but of course I've always played in great teams, with outstanding players. Still, it's hard to believe what I was allowed to experience.
Legendary Lasse Svan Hansen has played his last match for the Danish national team.

The 38-years old right wing of SG Flensburg Handewitt scored two times in red jersey in victory over Poland 30:20. It was his 246th match for Denmark.

Lasse Svan had to take a moment to catch a trembling voice, and the audience burst into cheers in the meantime.

– I was very happy it happened. I just want to say a thousand thanks to all those who have made this possible – to have a farewell match. I am very proud – said Svan who got standing ovation.

Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2019 Germany/Denmark 
Gold medal – first place 2021 Egypt 
Silver medal – second place 2011 Sweden 
Silver medal – second place 2013 Spain 
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2012 Serbia 
Silver medal – second place 2014 Denmark 
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hungary/Slovakia