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Nigeria, Arrive Egypt Ahead of The 25th Men Handball Championship, To Play Tunisia In First Match Of Group C – National

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The Nationwide Males Handball Workforce are in Egypt for the twenty fifth Africa Males Senior Handball Championship.

The twenty fifth version of the African Males’s Handball Championship, which begins from at this time by to the nineteenth July 2022, will function the the African qualifying match for the 2023 World Males’s Handball Championship in Poland and Sweden.

The workforce made up of 16 gamers in addition to officers left the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport on Friday and landed hours later in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

Coach Rafiu Salami mentioned the Golden Arrows will make sure that they make Nigeria proud with the purpose of getting a ticket for the world championship.

“The final time Nigeria certified for the World Championship was in 1999 and I used to be a member of the workforce on the time” Coach Rafiu mentioned.

“This time round we need to be sure we do nicely sufficient to get the a ticket for the world championship in Poland subsequent 12 months and we are going to begin with this championship.

The Handball Federation of Nigeria has given us every part they’ll with the extent of sponsors that they bought to make this journey doable and regardless of the chances, we are going to do our greatest in making Nigeria proud” Coach Rafiu concluded.

Nigeria will play Tunisia on Monday of their first match of group C at 12:30pm Nigeria time whereas they play Cape Verde on Tuesday at 8pm.

Nigeria has participated in eleven editions of the Africa Males Handball Nations with their greatest outing recorded within the 1998 version held in South Africa whereby they completed 4th after dropping to Egypt 35-26.

Remaining Workforce Record For Golden Arrows

1.Oladunjoyn Adamolugbe
2.Sanni Bature Muhammed
3.Michael Solomon Agbaji
4.Kingsley Okubuike Ifenna
5.Christian Ogedemgbe
6.Obinna Anih
7.Rotibi Gbenga
8.Stephen Sesugh
9.Joseph igwekire
10.Yusuf Farouk
11.Anas Muhammad
12.obinna Patrick
13.Aminu aliyu
14.Atabo Abubakar
15.Cole gbenga
16.Owolabi Yahya


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