Baghdad – WAA
Our national handball team for juniors will play its second match today, Friday, when it meets its Bahraini counterpart in the Peace Hall, as part of the competitions of the first Arab Championship for Juniors (Zone of the Levant and the Gulf), held in the province of Najaf Al-Ashraf, with the participation of the teams of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, and Syria.
The correspondent of the (INA) reported that “the technical staff of the Lions of Mesopotamia, led by Tunisian Hussam bin Nour, aspires to achieve a distinguished result despite the insufficient preparations that preceded the tournament, as they were limited to an internal training camp in the city of Najaf.”
It is noteworthy that the Lions of Mesopotamia started their journey in the tournament by defeating their Jordanian counterparts with a score of (40 – 28) goals, and our national team player Reda Ahmed Aboud received the award for best player in the match, while the Bahraini team defeated its Syrian competitor (41 – 16) goals.