Qatar brace for World Handball Championship with high hopes
The Peninsula
Doha, Qatar: The Qatar handball team reached Croatia yesterday as they brace for the challenge at the 29th IHF Men s World Championship 2025 which beg...
Doha, Qatar: The Qatar handball team reached Croatia yesterday as they brace for the challenge at the 29th IHF Men’s World Championship 2025 which begins tomorrow.
The World Championship, hosted by Croatia, Denmark and Norway, will continue until February 2.
The Qatar squad will conduct their final training session in Porec this evening in the presence of the President of the Qatar Handball Federation Ahmed Al Shaabi.
In the run up to the global showpiece, Qatar went through intensive training in Slovenia where they played two high-profile friendly matches.
In the two friendlies, Qatar lost to Slovenia (30-38) before another narrow defeat in the hands of Algeria (25-27). Prior to the camp, Qatar played three friendly matches in Doha, securing back-to-back victories over Argentina (30-25, 30-27) before suffering a narrow loss to Bahrain (27-28).