A little gigant in Boys 18

One of the players in Mumbai Handball Academy’s B18-team varies from the others. Arham Praveen Bapna is just 11 years old, but still played a major part of the team’s play-off game against the French Cesson-Sévigné. The game ended with defeat 13 -41, but the players didn’t seem sad at all.

– We have had a really good time here and we have learnt a lot. Gothenburg is a nice city, the sightseeing tour was amazing, says Arham after the game.

The opponents were gentle with Arham and treated him with respect. But it was of course not easy for him to get good chances to score. The player who made the most goals was the very talented Omesh Tulaskar. The team took part of the Olympic Development Program during their first week in Partille, together with other non-handball nations.

– We won several games then. We played a really good game against Zimbabwe and then I scored two or three goals.
– And he did score one goal in the B18-group in Partille Cup, adds a teammate.

But what we wonder is why does he play with some much older teammates.
– I’m here get experience. I play with people in my own age back home in India, but I got the opportunity to go here with the older guys.

Mumbai has now played their last game in Partille Cup this year and later today or tomorrow they will take the ferry to Denmark to play anther cup there.