Austrians miss the medal at the Fistball Women's World Cup

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The dream of the precious metal in the Fistball World Cup has not been realized for the Austrian Women's National Team . In the match for third place you have to beat Brazil with 0: 4. Germany celebrates the success of the title defense, the title of vice-champion is provided by Switzerland.

Austria and Brazil meet for the third time in the current tournament. In the preliminary round, Brazil had managed 2-0 in the quarterfinals, the hosts could reply with a 3-1 victory. In the match for third place, Austria starts with Katharina Lackinger and Karin Kempinger in defense, Teresa Pichler in the pbad and Marlene Hieslmair and Ines Mayer in attack. He is developing an eye-level duel, in which both teams are finding opportunities to win the game. Brazil, however, plays smarter in decisive moments and wins 1-0.

In the second round, Brazil beat 3-1. Austria, in the middle position now with Verena Hieslmair instead of Teresa Pichler in the middle position, is losing more and more views of the Seleção. After a flax ball by Ines Mayer on the score of 5: 9 Teresa Spadinger takes over until the end of the sentence. It starts with an error of service, then Tatiane Schneider scores at 11: 5 the victory of Brazil

Also in the third section mixes too many flaws inherent in the local team, Brazil leaves a 5-3 lead . After a short break from treatment for Brazilian captain Rejane Sinhori, who gets the ball in a defensive action in the face, Austria can catch up and go into the episode even with 9: 7 in the lead. After a break for Brazil replaced Giovanna Lucchin in defense Bianca Suffert. With her, the South Americans are the first to equalize, then Ines Mayer took the lead at 10: 9 for Austria. Isabella Lucchin counteracts nervously with her statement at 10:10. After that, Mayer and Lucchin deliver an impressive duel at the service until 2:14 pm. The decisive statement of Ines Mayer then remains in the lead, Brazil has missed only one sentence to the bronze medal.

Pulled by the enthusiastic public, Austria again mobilized all forces, already leads in the fourth section with 4: 1 picks up the lead with four points in a row. The Austrian team coach Christian Zöttl brings Carina Steindl to Marlene Hieslmair, Austria takes the lead with 8: 7. But again, the advance can not be maintained, three points in the series bring 10: 8 two match points for the South Americans. The Austrians can fight against the first, but it's once again the strong main striker Tatiane Schneider, who scores with a ball in the half-field and Brazil draws bronze. For Austria, therefore, only fourth place ungrateful, while Brazil has extended its series and the eighth World Cup for the eighth time brings precious metal.

For the Austrian team remains the realization that you can play in the world clbad Especially in the crucial phases, the regularity was lacking to seize the opportunities against the best Brazilian and Swiss teams. Attacker Marlene Hieslmair also sees it this way: "Brazil played very well, and today we can say that they were more consistent in all positions than us. I think that the sentences are relatively close with 14:15, 9:11 and so on.In the decisive stages, we could then not do the points. "

Also for the points in the decisive moments. coach Zöttl Brazil has finally won. "But I'm still very proud of my team.Of course we did more for the World Cup at home, in short, it was just not enough," the coach wants the clear 0 : 4 because of the tight sentence the results do not overestimate ..

The title brings for the third time in a row the Team of Germany.Switzerland offers the defending champion a hard fight in the final, but at the In the end, the current rulers prove their team clbad and win 4: 1.

Results Matches:
Match # 9: Czech Republic – New Zealand 0: 3 (7:11, 8:11, 7 : 11)
Play for 7th place: Serbia – Italy 0: 3 (9:11, 7:11, 12:14)
Game for 5th place: Poland – Argentina 0: 3 (9:11 , 7:11, 12:14)
Match for third place: Brazil – Austria 4: 0 (11: 9, 11: 5, 15:14, 11: 9) [19659013] Final: Germany – Switzerland 4 : 1 (11: 9, 10:12, 11: 7, 11: 6, 11: 1)