{"id":40872,"date":"2025-01-16T01:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40872"},"modified":"2025-01-16T02:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:35:29","slug":"handball-world-cup-egypt-defeats-argentina-and-grants-arabs-first-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/handball-world-cup-egypt-defeats-argentina-and-grants-arabs-first-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Handball World Cup&#8221;: Egypt Defeats Argentina and Grants Arabs First Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Egyptian national team achieved a decisive victory over Argentina on Wednesday, securing the first Arab win in the Men&#8217;s Handball World Cup, which is being held in Croatia, Denmark, and Norway.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the German News Agency, Egypt won the match 39-25, after leading 21-11 at halftime. This victory gave Egypt the first two points in Group 8 and boosted its chances of advancing to the second round.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mohamed Sand, Egypt\u2019s right-winger, was outstanding, scoring 6 goals, while his teammate Ali Zain added 5 goals, earning the &#8220;Man of the Match&#8221; award.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On the other hand, Lucas Dario Moscardi was Argentina\u2019s top scorer with 7 goals from 9 attempts, achieving a success rate of 78%.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Egypt will now face Bahrain in an all-Arab match on Friday for the second round, while Argentina will have a tough challenge against Croatia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In another match at the same time, the Czech Republic drew with Switzerland 17-17 in Group 1.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Arab teams began their journey in the handball World Cup with four defeats on Tuesday. Tunisia lost to Italy 25-32 in the opening match of Group 2. Algeria was defeated by the defending champions Denmark 22-47 in the same group. In Group 3, Qatar lost to France 19-37, while Kuwait was beaten by Austria 26-37.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Handball World Championship features 32 teams divided into 8 groups. The top 3 teams from each group advance to the second round, where 24 teams will compete in 4 groups. The top two from each of those groups will qualify for the quarterfinals.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The last-place teams in each group from the first round will compete in the President&#8217;s Cup to determine positions 25-32.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian national team achieved a decisive victory over Argentina on Wednesday, securing the first Arab win in the Men&#8217;s Handball World Cup, which is being held in Croatia, Denmark, and Norway. According to the German News Agency, Egypt won the match 39-25, after leading 21-11 at halftime. This victory gave Egypt the first two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40873,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40872\/revisions\/40873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}