Reda Saleem (Dubai)
On Thursday, the handball team will launch its campaign in the “21st edition” of the Asian Championship hosted by Bahrain, which qualifies for the 2025 World Cup, in Croatia, Denmark and Norway, and will continue until January 25.
Our team will meet Hong Kong at the opening of the fourth group competitions, which also includes Bahrain and Kazakhstan. The match is the last in the first day’s programme, and is preceded by the official opening ceremony, while two matches will be held in the second group, where India will meet Iraq, and Japan will meet Saudi Arabia.
This is the team’s fourteenth participation in the history of the continental tournament, and our players aspire to achieve the World Cup dream and repeat the qualification achievement, as happened in 2015. However, the team did not participate, and our team had previously met with Hong Kong, at the opening of their journey in the nineteenth Asian Championship in Kuwait. 2020, and ended with a wide victory for our team 38-11.
Our team will play its second match in the group against Kazakhstan next Saturday, while it will meet Bahrain next Monday, at the end of the group matches. Our team needs to finish the first round in second place, to ensure playing in the main round with the adults, and according to the tournament system, the teams that won will be divided. The first and second places are divided into two groups in the main round, where the first includes the first teams of the first group in the preliminary round, the second second, the first third, and the second fourth, while the second includes the teams second first, first second, second third, first fourth, and first and second from the two groups. It qualifies for the semi-finals and officially advances to the World Cup, while the teams that came in third and fourth place in the four groups in the preliminary round are distributed into the third and fourth groups, which include the third, the third of the first, the fourth of the second, the third of the third, and the fourth of the fourth. The fourth, the fourth of the first, the third of the second, the fourth of the third, and the third of the fourth, and is played for consolation positions from ninth to sixteen.
Our team arrived in Bahrain, and trained in the Khalifa Sports City Hall, which hosts the matches, where the technical staff, led by coach Prstovac, selected 20 players on the list, and the delegation is headed by Faisal Al-Tawash, member of the Federation’s Board of Directors and Chairman of the National Teams Committee.
The team went through a preparatory program during the last period, through internal gatherings, and traveling to the Macedonia camp, and played in it 3 matches, against Greece and then Kosovo two matches, and Pristovak relied on the participation of Sharjah players in the recent Asian Club Championship, which prepared them well through strong matches, unlike… The team participated in the Asian qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics in Doha.
2024-01-10 07:00:36
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