Handball: PSG plans a match at Bercy to celebrate the last of the immense Nikola Karabatic in the championship

Nikola Karabatic aura disputé plus de 500 matchs de StarLigue dans sa carrière. Eibner Pressefoto – Eibner Pressefoto/Marcel von Fehrn

Paris SG hand announced this Friday that it will celebrate the last championship match of Nikola Karabatic's career on May 31 against Aix-en-Provence in Bercy, where it will relocate a match for the first time in his history. Passed by Montpellier HB between 2002 and 2005 then between 2009 and 2013, he is the handball player with the most exceptional record.

The Parisians, leaders of the Starligue with five points ahead of their runner-up Nantes nine days from the end of the season, should have pocketed their 11th championship title, the 10th in a row, before this meeting against the Provençaux on the occasion of the 30th and last day.

A retirement that could stretch

Karabatic, who will celebrate his 40th birthday on April 11, could then have another opportunity to wear the PSG jersey, where he arrived in 2015: in the event of qualification for the Final Four of the Champions League (June 8 to 9 in Cologne).

The best player in the history of the France team announced at the end of August that he would retire, which began in 2001, at the end of the season , which should continue until the Paris Olympic Games.

He would be seeking a fourth Olympic title which would add to an already incomparable record (four world titles, three European titles, three Champions Leagues and 21 national championships).