The French team hopes to reach the last square in the world handball championship, but it involves a victory against Egypt this Tuesday, January 28.
With a faultless journey since the start of the Handball Worlds (7/7), the French team has become one of the major favorites for the world title a few months after its resounding failure at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Quarts against Egyptians who almost won during the group phase of the Paris Olympics (a draw torn off at the last second), the Blues must not miss out under penalty of going home and spoiling everything . Bad news especially since the table has particularly opened with the notable absence of Norway or Spain in this final phase. In the event of a victory Tuesday evening, the Blues could play a semi-final of all dangers against a team of Croatia, carried by its audience, back to a very good level and which overthrew Hungary in quarters with a goal to The last second. The semi-final, in the event of qualification, would be scheduled for Thursday, January 30 from 8:30 p.m.
Calendar and results of the World Hand
The preliminary round is competed from January 14 to January 21 with three games on the program for the Franc team. eThe main round will be disputed from January 21 to 25 for group I (3 qualified of groups A and B) and II (3 qualified of groups C and D) and from January 22 to 26 for group III (3 qualified of groups E and f) and IV (3 qualified in groups G and H).
Groups and ranking of the World Handball
Discover the classification of the preliminary tour to the main round with an update at the end of the meetings.
Selected players
Here is the list of French players for the Hand World Cup.
- Guardians: Samir Bellahcene (TVB Stuttgart) – Charles Bolzinger (Montpellier HB) – Rémi Desbonnet (Montpellier HB)
- Left wingers: Mathieu Grebille (Paris Saint Germain HB) – Dylan Nahi (Industria Kielce)
- Left rear: Thibaud Briet (HBC Nantes) – Romain Lagarde (Pauc Handball) – Élohim Prandi (Paris Saint Germain HB)
- Half centers: Aymeric Minne (HBC Nantes) – Nedim Remili (Telekom Veszprém)
- Pivots: Ludovic Fabregas (CAP, Telekom Veszprém) – Luka Karabatic (Paris Saint Germain Hb) – Karl Konan (Montpellier HB) – Nicolas Tournat (HBC Nantes)
- Right rear: DIKA MEM (FC Barcelona) – Melvyn Richardson (FC Barcelona)
- Right wingers: Julien Bos (HBC Nantes) – Benoît Kounkoud (Industria Kielce)