Sunday, March 6, 2011

Handball World Cup

This month in Sweden, being held the World Championship of Handball. This World Championship isn't as popular like the World Championship of Football. But in my opinion the World Championship of Handball must to do similar like the football.
The system of the championship isn't very common: at the beggining 24 nations are distributed in 4 groups (A,B, C and B) of 6 nations. This year Spain played versus Egypt, Barhain, France, Germany and Tunez in the group A. Three of this six nations pass to the next round (called main round). In the group A France, Spain and Germany pass to next round and Egypt, Barhain and Tunez play the President Cup. The President Cup it's a mini-competition in of the World Championship that it's played for the losers of the first round.
In the main round, the three firsts of the group A play versus the firsts of the group B and the firsts of the group C versus the firsts of the group D.
For do this the nations pass to the main round without 6 points that they got in the first round. The nations from the groups A and B do other group (1). The nations from the groups C and D do other group (2). The nations that come of the same group in the first round don't play again, only play with the nations from the other group. The two bests of the groups 1 and 2 pass to semi-finals and the others fight for 5th,6th,7th,8th and 9th position. The first of the group 1 play against the second of the group 2 and vice versa. The winners of the semi finals go to the final and the losers fight for 3rd and 4th place. The winner of the final win this cup.
Until now, France was the World Champions at the same time that they are European Champions and Olympic Champions. Spain won the World Cup in 2005 but after that only can't be 7th (in Germany 2007) ans 13th (in Croatia 2009).

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