Rabat – The Moroccan national handball team on Friday won against its Guinean counterpart 28-24, qualifying for the semi-finals of the 2022 African Men’s Handball Championship and the upcoming World Cup.
According to the Moroccan Royal Federation of Handball, the national selection was the first in Africa to qualify for the World Handball Championship scheduled to take place in Poland and Sweden in January 2023. Morocco along with four other African handball teams will compete in the international event.
Egypt, the host country, is among the qualified teams for the world championship as it led group A to which Morocco and Cameroon belonged. Cameroon, however, was eliminated after losing two games against the Atlas Lions and Pharaohs.
It is the eighth qualification of the Moroccan handball team for the world championship, the latest one was in Egypt in 2021.
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The first half of Morocco’s Friday game against Guinea ended with a close tie between the two teams, with Morocco leading the game by only one point, 14-13.
However, the Moroccan team dominated the second half and concluded the match with a score of 28-24 thanks to the excellent performance of the goalkeeper Yassine Idrissi and the instructions of the national coach Noureddine Bouhaddioui.
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