Quarterfinal, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Angola – Denmark 23:28 (11:15) Denmark is the next team joining the semi-final of the World Championship in Brazil, the team of Jan Pytlick defeats Angola and will meet France on Friday. Angola has only led once in the early stage of the match, but then Denmark took the initiative and [...]
Quarterfinals, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Russia – France 23:25 (12:13) After winning all of their games so far in the tournament, Russia has failed in the Top 8 and clearly lost to a superior and strong French side. Despite an early lead of Russia, coach Olivier Krumbholz´s team was on eye level in the first ten [...]
Eight finals, Sao Paulo Brazil – Ivory Coast 36:22 (15:8) Absolutely no problems for Brazil to advance to the quarterfinals, as the Brazilians had an easy match against their African opponents and is one of the two teams with Russia in the competition with the maximum points. If we look at the scorer list it [...]
Eight finals, Sao Paulo Sweden – France 23.26 (15:12) In an exciting thriller, France overcame Sweden and reaches the quarterfinals, where coach Olivier Krumbholz´s team will face title defender Russia. Mariame Signate´s training injury yesterday was a bad sign for the French, as they only had one proper left-back in Claudine Mendy. Sweden were the [...]
1/8 finals Montenegro – Spain 19:23 (9:11) With a very solid performance, Spain made it to the quarterfinals, where they will meet the winner between Brazil and Ivory Coast. Montenegro again had a horrid start like in their preliminaries against Norway, Spain quickly established a 3:0 lead, so coach Dragan Adzic had to call for [...]
Angola met Korea in their 1/8 final Sunday afternoon in Arena Santos and managed to win a tight game that ended 30-29. Angola started best, got an early lead by three goals. Korean team managed to improve and the teams went to half time with 13-13. Korea had a little grip on things from the [...]
1/8 finals in Sao Paulo (Barueri): Russia – Iceland 30:19 (15:12) The title defender from Russia remains undefeated and reaches the quarterfinals without problems against World Championship debutant Iceland. The Scandinavians were only dangerous in the first half, but in the second, the Sbornaja found the rhythm of the game and with wonderful attacking outplayed [...]
Group A China – Iceland 16:23 (9:12) With a clear victory over their Asian opponents Iceland reaches fourth position in the group and celebrates the biggest success of their history with reaching the knock out phase. The Scandinavians will face World Champions Russia in the eight finals, whilst China, finishing last and without points in [...]
Group A Norway – Montenegro 28:27 (15:11) The Scandinavians celebrate a one goal victory and finish as first in their group, whilst Montenegro end up on second place. It wasn´t supposed to be a tight match, as Norway had a storming start and with a 9 goals straight march quickly established a clear lead to [...]
Group A Angola – Germany 25:22 (14:10) In the last rounds´s opener Angola had no problems to overcome Germany in a hectic, but fair game. Angola already had a place in the 1/8finals, but still the Africans were very determined, so was coach Heine Jensen´s team. His side gave maximum effort and was aiming for [...]