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What a pleasure to say goodbye like this.

In the last second on a handball court,

Raúl Entrerríos

scored a goal, his last goal, and confirmed a medal, his last medal.

What a pleasure to say goodbye like this.

With defeat you learn, say the happy, but what were some gentlemen going to learn who at 36, 37, 38 and even 40 had already won almost everything. With the defeat it recoils, it conceals itself or it returns and what this Spain did after falling in the semifinals of the Tokyo Games was to return. Custom. Many, Raúl himself, Julen

Aginagalde

, Dani Sarmiento, Gideón Guardiola, would not have been here if they had not been left without playing the Rio 2016 Games; of that failure, these forces, that last goal. They returned to return and when they return they can leave in peace. This Thursday the team hung the fourth Olympic bronze in its history and, with it around its neck, the best generation in history said goodbye, the one that won a World Cup and two Europeans.

Entrerríos hugged all his teammates after the goal ended the game;

one by one, hugs, kisses, lots of kisses.

Handball is over for him, 20 afterwards he will no longer play, as others will not.

Therefore, this Saturday there was excitement for the victory, yes, but also sorrow for the time that passed.

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In fact, those two sensations marked the game.

That the farewell was sweet was the main motivation to win and, at the same time, it ended up being the main obstacle.

There were moments of excess emotion such as when, in the first minutes,

Ángel Fernández

gave Entrerríos a goal on the counterattack and he, who was not expecting it, missed it.

Julen Aginagalde, who had barely played in the entire championship, appeared as a starter in the first minutes and, although he was right, his presence misled the team.

Alex Dujshebaev's final blow

In the end, Spain, after being three goals down (5-2, min. 7), discovered that they were not experiencing a tribute match and changed.

With more intensity in defense and a lot of speed, all that contains the winger

Aleix Gómez

, reached an advantage of an advantage of three goals (14-17, min. 25) and thought again about the future;

failed again.

Waiting for the end, the manteo to Entrerríos, the medal ceremony, dinner and the return home, Spain relaxed and Egypt, which never relaxes, took advantage of it.

With his aggressiveness and the arms of

Ahmed Elahmar

or Mohamed Shabib, he was hooked into the fight for the medals with a sustained, continuous draw, which was only broken at the end with a goal from

Alex Dujshebaev

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