VELUX EHF FINAL4 2017 Quiz

How well do you remember HC Vardar's dramatic and surprise victory at the VELUX EHF FINAL4 2017?

What was special about the All-star team of the 2016/17 VELUX EHF Champions League season?

A is correct. No player retained their award and five of the nine players were from PSG.

No player from the previous season and five from the same club.

All were the same players as the previous season.

No player from the eventual champions.

Who was top scorer in the 3/4 placement match and joined the opponents later that summer?

Aron Palmarsson is correct. After two participations with Veszprem, Palmarsson transferred to Barcelona in the 2017/18 season

Viran Morros

Dika Mem

Aron Palmarsson

Which IHF World Player of the Year lost another EHF Champions League final and still had to wait for his first trophy?

Hansen is correct. He is an Olympic, world and European champion, but has yet to win the EHF Champions League.

Daniel Narcisse

Mikkel Hansen

Thierry Omeyer

Vardar won both matches at Cologne with buzzer-beaters. Which players from the same country scored those winning goals?

C is correct. Cindric scored the winner against Barcelona, Cupic handed them the championship against PSG.

Igor Karacic and Luka Cindric

Jorge Maqueda and Joan Canellas

Luka Cindric and Ivan Cupic

Who was awarded MVP of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 2017 and took his fourth CL trophy?

C is correct. Sterbik was the first goalkeeper awarded the MVP and had won the trophy already in 2006, 2008 and 2009 with Ciudad Real.

Alex Dujshebaev

Ivan Cupic

Arpad Sterbik

Raul Gonzalez steered Vardar to their first EHF Champions League title. How many different Spanish head coaches had raised the CL trophy before?

7 is correct. Javier Cuesta (1994), Julian Riuz (1995), Valero Rivera (1996-2000), Francisco Equisoain (2001), Francesc Espar (2005), Talant Dujshebaev (2006, 2008, 2009, 2016) and Xavi Pascual (2011, 2015) had won the trophy 15 times in total.

Which piece of history did Vardar make by winning the title in 2017?

B is correct. Kometal Skopje won the women’s title in 2002.

The first men’s EHF Champions League winner from a former Yugoslavian country.

The first city to claim both men’s and women’s EHF Champions League winners.

The first VELUX EHF FINAL4 debutant to win the trophy.

Lost in the semi-final

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