“Father!” George! Come on, it’s late and we’re all leaving! ‘ Bordils’ first team has finished its Silver Honor Division match and the players stay at the Blanc-i-verd to make it crack and make the touch. Stairs up and stairs down, now on the bench, now on the goal, but always with a handball in his hands, two quarterbacks of the planter do not stand still. “They were like Zipi and Zape. They did not stand still. We had to turn off the lights, because we were going home, ”recalls Pau Campos, a former first team coach. They were the twins Petar and Djordje Cikusa, players from the youth team and known in the village as Pere and Jordi. Those dwarfs, who grew up in the guts of the Blanc-i-verd, are now 16 years old, and fifteen days ago they were two of the great protagonists of the victory of the Spanish youth team in the Mediterranean Championship held in Turkey. It was three years ago that they left Bordils, captured by Barça, to move to La Masia and continue with a homeless projection, as was clear in the championship where Petar, an ambidextrous winger, was included. in the best starting set and Djorde, left or center side, was named second best side of the tournament. And that they have just turned 16 and are competing against players who have already turned 18.
The Cikusa gene is not new to handball. In fact, if they are from Girona, it is because their father, Zoran, signed for Bordils in 2004 and, once retired, he stayed to work and live there. Zoran Cikusa has a long career in Silver and National League and abroad (Gijón, Malagón, Torrelavega, Guimaraes, Dinamo Zagreb …). The father did not want to miss the Mediterranean and went to Ankara to watch it live. “Some of my ex-teammates tell me they play a bit like me, but they’re better … It’s normal for them to end up better,” he says, assuming it. The father was a coordinator and coach in Bordils for many years and passed on his passion for handball to his children. “He arrived at the pavilion at 5 o’clock and left at 10 o’clock, with them behind him,” explains the father, who reveals that “like all children, in the middle of the first team matches, they jumped on the court to make throws.”
The Cikusa twins immediately made it to the Blanc-i-verd and this meant that Barça, who had been chasing them for a long time, integrated them into their squad at the age of 13. As they have Spanish, Serbian and Croatian nationality, they could have chosen a national team. “They are from Bordils. They have friends here, in Celrà, Girona and now also in Barcelona “, says the father.
The Cikusa lineage, then, has rope for a while. For the time being, they have left their mark on the Mediterranean Championship, where they were also the top scorers for the Spanish national team. Next August they will have an appointment at the European Championship in the Montenegro category.
