The Importance of Anticipation in increasing the Defense Efficiency in high Performance Handball

Abstract

This study allows us to analyze by comparison the evolution of teams ranked in the first three positions in the editions XXI and XXII of the Men's Handball World Championship in terms of the physical involvement of players in solving concrete issues of attack and defense. Therefore, the parameters of the game set to be evaluated in terms of the involvement of their capacity to anticipate and to make decisions of the players are the 7m throw, fast break, fast attack, overtaking actions and breakthroughs, assists, technical faults committed in attack, interceptions, blocks shoots, closing lanes of breakthrough and the breakthroughs applied to players that behave beyond regulations.