2019 has bid on VM-gold, and a serious knee injury for Casper U., which first expects to play again in February.

2019 has been the best and the worst year for håndboldspilleren Casper U. Mortensen.

In January he was lifting the trophy, as Denmark won the WORLD cup, but shortly after the finals showed a scan that as the winger had sustained a serious knee injury which has kept him away from the håndboldbanen ago.

As the national coach Nikolaj Jacobsen in last week statement bruttotruppen for the european championship finals in January, was Casper U. Mortensen did not.

- It has been hard. It is a whole year out, and now cats I also EM, says the left.

He plays in FC Barcelona, and the plan is that he returns and trains with klubholdet from 12. January. He expects to be able to play the battle again from February.

- I feel that it brightens the. I'm approaching the percentages that make, that I hopefully soon can play some handball again.

- Right now I feel at 80 percent, so I'm missing just the last 20 percent, which makes that it gets really good, and as required at this level, says Casper U. Mortensen.

He has spoken with Nikolaj Jacobsen for the european championship finals, and both were agreed that it did not make sense for as the winger having with, when he has not played a handball match in almost a year.

- I wish the boys all the best for the finals.

- Hopefully the joy it will give me to be able to begin to train handball with my team in January, making it easier to get through the month of January and see EM on tv instead of playing it, he says.

Casper U. Mortensen will now work towards being ready for the OLYMPICS this summer in Tokyo.

- It is the objective to get to the OLYMPICS, but right now it's important to come back and play for Barcelona. The club has supported me very much, and I owe it all. Barcelona has not scored anything at all for the money in a year now.

- I think that the national team is something that comes automatically again when I come back and play continuously every week at a high level. I am not so nervous. The main thing is just that I come back at 100 percent, then I will also perform on håndboldbanen, he says.

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