Team GB back on the world scene?

 



TEAM GB back on the world scene but bows out quickly

 

GB Men’s Head coach Ricardo Vasconcelos has named an 18-strong squad for the IHF World Championship qualifiers from 5-7 November in Helsinki, Finland.

The squad will travel to the Finnish capital on Wednesday 3 November to allow a preparation day ahead of the three-day tournament. It will be the first opportunity for the full squad to train together in over two years, following the Covid restrictions. Team GB got hit hard and had to pull out from a string of qualifiers and organised training camps.

The fantastic piece of news: GB’s first appearance at a World Championship qualifier in almost 10 years. It is public knowledge that British Handball recently secured UK Sport funding for the first time since 2012, which is a bit of a relief to handball fans across Great Britain and elsewhere in the world.

GB is in group 2 and will play Estonia, Georgia and hosts Finland, and will be underdogs in a tough group. Only the top two teams progress to the next qualifying round.

Games to be played are as follows

Friday 5 November
6pm GMT Georgia vs Great Britain 

A decent battle

 

Saturday 6 November
5pm GMT Estonia vs Great Britain

A huge disappointing defeat

Team GB are out 

 

Sunday 7 November
1pm Finland vs Great Britain

 

The young GB squad for the IHF World Championship Qualifiers reads as follows

Craig Yule - Academico de Viseu (Portugal)

Craig McClelland - Vitoria (Portugal)
Tiago Babb - Boavista (Portugal)

Owen Insou - Epinal (France)
Jeremy Hirel - Le Chesnay (France)
Ryan Goodwin - NEM Hawks
Chris White - Livingston
Will Moore and Ollie Tyler - London GD
Alex Bradley - Carshalton Titans
Ben Howard, Joshua Plumridge, Ben Tyler - Nottingham

David Klaening - IK Nord (Sweden)
Francisco Pereira - Fuchse Berlin (Germany)
Seb Edgar - Kaerjeng (Luxembourg)
Tomeu Lopez-Nieto - Feyenord (Netherlands)
Ran Yonish - Bnei Herzelia (Israel)

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