Qatar announces squad for 2023 Handball World Cup
DOHA: Qatar Handball Association (QHA) announced on Monday the national squad for the 28th Men’s World Cup in Poland and Sweden from Jan. 11 to 29, 2023.
The team starts preparations on Augussut 14 under the leadership of Spanish coach Valero Rivera.
Qatar is drawn in Group E along with Germany, Serbia and Algeria.
Group A includes Spain, Montenegro, Chile and Iran, and Group B consists of France, Poland, Saudi Arabia and Slovenia. Sweden, Brazil, Cape Verde and Uruguay were drawn for Group C.
Iceland, Portugal, Hungary and South Korea compete in Group D while Group F includes Norway, Macedonia, Argentine and the Netherlands.
Group G includes Egypt, Croatia, Morocco and the United States. Group H consists of Denmark, Belgium, Bahrain and Tunisia.
Qatar qualified for the 2023 World Cup after leading group A at the group stage of the 20th Asian Cup held in January in Saudi Arabia, which saw the Qatari team being crowned champion for the fifth consecutive time after a 29/24 victory over Bahrain in the final.
The team’s participation will be the ninth in the World Cup after previous eight appearances in Portugal 2003, Tunisia 2005, Germany 2007, Spain 2013, Qatar 2015, France 2017, Germany & Denmark 2019 and Egypt 2021 with the silver medal in Qatar 2015 as the best achievement in World Cup appearances.
The squad: Belal Masoud Mararheh (Al Ahli), Abdulrahman Tarek Al Abdullah, Mustafa Amir Heiba, Ahmed Nader Naseem, Ahmed Mohamed Maddadi, Rafael De Costa Kabote, Belal Lbenka, Alladine Nabil Belrashed, Ali Khaled Hamed (Al Duhail); Rasheed Yussef, Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelmajid, Ibrahim Shebl Ebeid (Al Sadd); Anis Abdulrazaq Zawawi (Al Arabi); Mahmoud Ahmed Zaki, Abdelhadi Medhat Rashad (Al Gharafa), Kamaledine Mallash, Amin Mowafak Zekkar, Edler and Ali Emad Al Diry (Al Rayyan); Yassine Sami Ebrahim and Ahmed Abdulhamid El Meniawy (Al Wakrah); Frankis Carol Marzo (Kuwait’s Al Kuwait)
