The official page of On Time Sport 1 channel published a live broadcast of the match on YouTube Egypt national team against Iceland At exactly nine thirty in the evening today, Wednesday, where the group of Pharaohs in the main round includes Croatia, Argentina, Slovenia, Iceland, and Cape Verde.
And he seeks Hand team To win the match against Iceland, which is scheduled to start at 9:30 pm at the beginning of the main round.
Egypt national handball team group
It is scheduled to meet Hand team With its counterpart Slovenia the day after tomorrow, Friday, and finally Cape Verde next Sunday, while also competing in today’s confrontations, other than the confrontation with the Pharaohs, are Slovenia with Argentina, Sweden with Portugal, Cape Verde with Croatia, America with Japan, and Norway with Spain.
The Spanish national team’s coach, Juan Carlos Pastor, seeks to win against Iceland before meeting Slovenia, which is considered the most difficult in this round. He asked the players to play the main round with the same spirit and performance that the Pharaohs showed against Croatia at the conclusion of the first round.
The Egyptian handball team, led by its Spanish technical director, Juan Carlos Pastor, succeeded in achieving the full mark and topping the group in the first round of the 29th World Men’s Championship, after defeating Croatia, the host and the public, on the night of achieving the top spot in the first round with a score of 28-24.
The journey of the Egyptian handball team
The first round witnessed a remarkable superiority for the handball team, achieving the full mark, as it won its first match against Argentina with a score of 39-25 before defeating Bahrain with a score of 35-24 in a match that witnessed the brilliance of goalkeeper Karim Hindawi, Ahmed Hisham Dodo, and Mohsen Ramadan, who was awarded the best player in the match.
The Argentina match also witnessed the appearance of a number of players with brilliant performances, such as goalkeeper Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Sanad and Yehia Khaled, as well as Ali Zein, who won the title of best player in the match.
Handball World Cup tournament system
The first 3 teams from each group qualify for the main round, and 24 teams qualify for the main round, which are divided into 4 groups, with each of two adjacent groups joining into one group, which includes 6 teams (first with second – third with fourth – fifth with sixth – seventh with eighth) Each team that qualifies for the main round brings with it the score of the points it obtained from its two matches with the two qualifying teams from the same group.
In the main round, each team plays three matches with the qualified teams from the neighboring group and does not play again with the qualified teams from its group.
The first and second from each group in the main round qualify directly to the round of 8, with the round of 8 being held in a knockout system, then the semi-finals and final.