The hand of Annabi faces the Pharaohs

Our first national handball team faces its Egyptian counterpart today, at Al-Duhail Sports Hall, in a first test match between them as part of the national team’s preparations to participate in the 20th Asian Championship for men’s teams, which will be held in Saudi Arabia from January 18 to 31, and qualifies for the World Championship in Poland. Sweden 2023. The two teams are scheduled to meet in a second test match on Thursday. Al-Adaam will also play two friendly matches with the Iraqi team on January 4 and 6, which is the last test station before going to Saudi Arabia to participate in the Asian Championship.
It is expected that Annabi coach Valero will announce the final list that will defend the chances of our national team in the Asian Championship after the two test matches in Doha with the Iraqi team on January 4 and 6 next. The current list includes 23 players: Ahmed Mohamed Maddi, Rafael de Costa Caputi, Bilal Labinca, Aladdin Nabil Belrashid, Salem Anwar Al-Jadid (Al-Duhail), Nour Ashraf Ibrahim, Rashid Youssef, Ibrahim Shebel Obaid (Al Sadd), Hamad Mohamed Maddi, Daniel Serch, and Ahmed Magdy. Abdel Rahim, Marwan Ali Sassi, Youssef Al-Tayeb Ali, Wajdi Ibrahim Sinan and Rayan Al-Araibi (Al-Arabi), Mahmoud Ahmed Zaki (Al-Gharafa), Kamal El-Din Malash and Amin Moafaq Zakkar Wilder Mimisvic, Ali Inad Al-Diri (Al-Rayyan), Yassin Sami Ibrahim and Muhammad Amin Abedi (Al-Wakra). and Franks Carol Marzo (Kuwait, Kuwait). Our national team is looking forward to reaching the maximum possible readiness before entering the Asian Championship, in which the draw was placed in the third group along with the teams of the Emirates, Iraq and Oman. Next January 18, he will play the second match with Iraq on Thursday, January 20, and he will play the third match with the UAE national team on Saturday, January 22, while the first group includes the teams of South Korea, Kuwait, Jordan and Singapore, and the second group includes the teams of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Australia and India, and the fourth group includes the teams of Japan, Bahrain and Hong Kong, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
The first and second from each group will qualify for the main round, where the eight qualified teams will be divided into two groups with four teams in each group, with the first and second qualifying for the semi-finals. Our national team seeks to preserve the Asian title it won in the last four editions, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2018, and 2020, and to ensure participation in the World Championship for the ninth time in its history after Portugal 2003, Tunisia 2005, Germany 2007, Spain 2013, Qatar 2015, France 2017, Germany, Denmark 2019 and Egypt 2021. He won second place in the Qatar 2015 edition, his best result in the history of his participation.
Al-Adaam was crowned with the title of the last nineteenth edition of the Asian Men’s Handball Championship that was held in Kuwait last year, after winning the final match against his South Korean counterpart, 33/21.