Having her cancer-stricken sister on site for the first time
This weekend, Isabel Goldin makes her last big stage appearance:
4th Uefa Champions League Final.
On Sunday, it will be tough in every respect, says Goldin ahead of the semi-finals with his team Snakes Kristiansand.
2008 competition appeared Isabel Golden In the national team with the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Since then, she has been on the world handball scene: Olympics, World Cup, European Championships, Champions League, and matches for many top European teams.
This summer, she’s moved back home to Sweden, to SHE and Lugi.
With all due respect to Logy, the club won’t go far in the Champions League, not for the foreseeable future or as long as Goldin has been active anyway, and since the 32-year-old has left the national team for 1.5 years, this weekend will be his fourth final In the Champions League in Budapest with the Norwegian Vipers Kristians and the emergence of the last games genius on the big handball stage.
Of course it will be a special match, says Goldin, before today’s semi-final against Frenchman Metz.
With victory, you will play in the final against Hungarian Geor or Danish Esbjerg tomorrow. The loss and the bronze match awaits on Sunday.
Is it sad that you left the big stage or did you finish it and prepare for something else?
– Yes, I am, but it would still be very heavy. On Sunday it will be difficult in every respect and I also left the club that I enjoyed so much. Although I only hope to be happy somehow, she says and indicates if Kristiansand, the reigning champion, will continue his path.
Positive message about sister’s cancer
In February, Isabel Goldin said in an interview with Sportbladet that she chose to end her contract with Kristiansand this summer and move to Skåne because her two-year-old younger sister, Rebecca, who lives in Lund, had an aggressive form of cervical cancer.
– He’s heavy. Goldin said handball means very little in a situation like this.
This weekend, Rebecca is in the stands – for the first time in Final 4 (Bella plays her fifth in Final 4). She is on site with her parents, husband Isabel, and children.
– I would love to have my family where they are, says Bella.
She may also have left a positive message about her sister’s illness.
– She has responded well to treatments even though she has never been declared healthy. But it is in the right direction.
They’re heading in the right direction – what have they meant to you in recent months?
– It allows you to relax in another way. become happier. I’ve tried to be happy but as soon as I get home… you go with constant worry and anxiety and don’t feel good even if you try to show that you don’t feel bad. I’m still worried but it’s a positive message to live by even if you can’t really relax yet.
Another Swede is in for a handball party this weekend: Lynn Bloom in Gyor. The star streak was voted up the other day for a place in the UEFA Champions League All-Star Team. Geyer has won five of the last eight editions of the Champions League.
– They are title favorites this year, too, says Goldin.
UEFA Champions League Final 4 is broadcast on Viaplay
Saturday:
15.15: Geor Esberg.
18:00: Metz Kristiansand.
Sunday:
15.15: Bronze match.
18:00: final.