Dreams of 6 Arab teams in the “Handball World Cup”
The activities of the 29th edition of the World Handball Championship for Men began yesterday, hosted by the countries of Denmark, Norway and Croatia, and its activities will continue until next February 2. Six Arab teams are participating in this edition of the World Handball Championship, namely Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait. Each of the six teams seeks to achieve new ambitions in the World Championship, repeat a previous achievement, or at the very least improve its position over the last. His participation in the tournament. The Egyptian national team, which plays in the eighth group competitions, will play in the first round in the group that includes the teams of Croatia, the host and fans, and the Argentine and Bahraini teams, and the Egyptian national team, the “African champion”, led by the Spaniard Juan Carlos Pastor, seeks to maintain its presence among the seven greats. The ambition is to improve the position and even repeat the achievement of 2001, and perhaps surpass it by obtaining a bronze medal in the World Championship, especially since our team He was on the verge of achieving historic results in the Paris Olympics, in addition to the Pharaohs having distinguished players at the world level. Many prominent players will be absent from the Egyptian national team in the tournament, led by Yahya Al-Daraa and Hassan Walid Qaddah due to injury, and Mohab Saeed, Khaled Walid and Mohammed Essam Al-Tayyar.
As for the Bahraini national team, which is technically led by Icelandic Aron Kristiansson, he is playing in the same team. The group of Pharaohs aspires to achieve an advanced position, and participates for the sixth time in its history in the World Cup, and achieved its best result in the last edition, 2023, where it occupied the position. 16, and seeks to strengthen the team’s position by bringing in a new generation.
While the Qatari team plays in the third group that includes the teams of Austria, Kuwait and France, it aspires to repeat the achievement of 2015, as it ranked second in the world championship at that time, but it was It is difficult in light of the current situation of the team, which is technically led by Serbian Veselin Vujovic, and this is the first official tournament for him and his team. «burgundy» In the same group, the Kuwaiti team is playing, returning to participate in the world championships, after an absence of 16 years, and is looking forward to appearing strongly and occupying an advanced position.
In the second group, we find the Arab-African teams, Tunisia and Algeria, next to the teams of Denmark and Italy, as the team seeks The Tunisian team is expected to appear strongly during the World Cup matches to achieve an advanced position that will restore the prestige of Carthage Eagles handball, and the team is missing the most influential star, Mohamed Amin Darmoul, who was exposed. Injury, but the brotherly team raises the slogan “No to surrender”.
As for the Algerian team, it seeks to make a new history for itself in the context of its participation in the World Cup, as its best results were in 2001 when it achieved 13th place, and the team it leads prepared technically. National coach Farouk Dehili has been at the World Cup for more than a year, and Karima Taleb, president of the Algerian Handball Federation, has not ruled out that he will achieve Her country’s team achieved the best result in that tournament, anticipating the possibility of beating Italy and qualifying for the main round and then achieving an advanced position.
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