Today´s problems

The competition and development of the traditional Olympic sport of handball has taken place in the USA for almost 100 years and clearly failed in its attempts to develop and popularize the sport. Today it is a sport that only has approximately 500 players, it is almost unknown by the majority of the population, and most of those who practice it have learned to play it outside of the USA. Meanwhile, in a 50-year period, a sport like Pickleball has 36.5 million players, and sports like rugby or paddle already have their professional teams and sell franchises for millions of dollars. Below we will detail some of the main problems:

- Lack of a national development project.
- Lack of direction and clear goals to achieve.
- Lack of Courts throughout the United States.
- Low popularity.
- We failed to generate attractive matches.
- Game problem with the use of glue. Most of the few courts that exist don´t allow it.
- Poor organization of tournaments and/or league. Tournaments are very expensive, and the national tournament is the most expensive of all.
- Low number of youth player development.
- Low number of college teams. And those that exist are few, and they do not play attractive and fun games.
- Reduced number of sponsors that can support the teams.
- Low number of teams and players to make a competitive league, weekly or biweekly.
- We do not generate a salable product. Considering this, some want to profit or seek income by selling the product (which we ourselves generate) in different versions to the same players, coaches, and team organizers (memberships, expensive tournaments, and tv streaming).
- Very few new American players are incorporated. We have not been able to attract players from other sports such as basketball, volleyball, dodgeball, beach handball or water polo.
-Low number of tournaments and competitions to develop the good players we have and the new players that can be added. 
- It is impossible to develop any player by having a tournament every month or two months in a season of only 8 months a year. And it is worse when the player is a beginner because the beginner player is not going to participate and/or if they do, they will only play very few minutes.
-Having tournaments every two months is useless and so expensive (this season seems like it is going to be even worse). This only leads to the demotivation of the few players we have, even to go to train.
- Legal structure of the clubs and the federation (non-profits - they are out of business, and all the work that is done in them has no economic value. Once you stop working, all the work done is lost unless you find a successor who will continue it in the same direction for free).
- Lack of focus on the development of indoor Handball as there are very few people who are exclusively focused on the development of this variant. Lack of unity in the development criteria as each club does what it wants without caring about the rest of the clubs or the community. Going to schools to teach a sport worked well last century but it is not the only way to develop. Today there are many successful sports that are not played in  high schools or university varsity competitions that are super popular and successful, such as pickleball, rugby and paddle.
- Very few new players want or have the opportunity to start playing handball. For those that do start to play, they do so as a wingers or pivots, and therefore get bored and leave the sport.