Morocco enters the fray this Friday

From January 11 to 29 in Sweden and Poland, the nationwide staff will participate within the eighth handball world championship in its historical past with the intention of displaying an excellent present and going past the primary spherical.

To realize this aim, nationwide coach Noureddine Bouhadioui will depend on a bunch of 16 gamers, together with six lively professionals in France (5) and Saudi Arabia (1).

Participating within the World Cup for the second time after the 2021 World Cup in Egypt, these younger gamers are pushed by a robust want to offer their finest and keep away from the President’s Cup, which is supposed for the underprivileged.

Morocco has been absent from the World Cup for six editions since 2007, earlier than qualifying for Egypt 2021, which was controversial as a result of unfold of the coronavirus.

Morocco certified for the 2023 World Cup by ending third on the final African Cup of Nations in Egypt, which it gained for the primary time since 2006, in favor of accelerating the variety of members in Tunisia to the thirty second version.

In a robust group, Morocco will face the US within the first spherical (January 13 at 18:00), Egypt, the reigning African champions (January 15 at 18:00), and Croatia, a candidate for no less than the final sq. (January 17 at 20:30 ).

That is the eighth participation of the Moroccan handball staff within the World Cup after 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007 and 2021.

The most effective results of the Moroccan handball staff on the World Cup stays the seventeenth place in 1999 in Egypt.