The dream night of the youth handball players against Saudi Arabia / Iranian stars went to the final of Asia

According to Fars News Agency and quoted by the Handball Federation, Iran’s national junior handball team won 33-32 against Saudi Arabia in the semi-final stage of the Asian Championship at the end of the 80-minute long marathon and entered the finals.

At the end of 60 minutes of efforts by both teams, the match ended with a draw of 24-24, so that the winner of the match will be determined in two 5-minute overtimes. In the first 5 minutes, Saudi Arabia led 27-26, but in the second 5 minutes, the Iranian national team drew the result to 28-28.

After the two teams tied at the end of 70 minutes, the game was extended to the next overtime. In the first 5 minutes, the result of the match was 31-30 in favor of Iran. At the end of the second 5 minutes, Iran defeated Saudi Arabia 33-32 and entered the finals of the Asian Championship.

In the group stage of the Asian Championship, Iran’s national junior handball team reached the semi-final stage as the second team in its group with three wins and one loss. In their first match, Iran’s national team lost against South Korea with a score of 29-24, but in the second match, they won against India with a score of 64-14.

In the third match, Iran’s national team defeated Uzbekistan with a score of 35-23 and in the fourth match of the group stage, they won with a score of 30-29 by presenting a wonderful show against the host Bahrain, who had won the championship in the last two rounds of the Asian Championship.

Saudi Arabia, Iran’s opponent in the semi-finals of the Asian Championship, has also qualified for the semi-finals as the first team in Group B with five victories against their opponents.

Saudi Arabia defeated Iraq 42-22 in its first match in the group stage, won against Qatar with a score of 27-24 in the second match, and won against Kuwait 34-31 in the third match. In their fourth match, the Saudis won 37-27 against the UAE, and in the last match of the group stage, they won 31-28 against Japan.

Amir Hossein Massoudnia, Mehdi Darini, Saber Heydari, Mehdi Moradi, Hadi Khajesalimi, Ilya Goli, Abolfazl Rahshanas, Ahmed Aram, Ali Heydarian, Amir Hossein Karmi, Shayan Fershtenejad, Hossein Heydarian, Amir Mohammad Pourqasmi, Ali Amir Yousefi, Amir Rashid Abadi, Mahan Daulatkhah , Mehrshad Danshi and Amir Abbas Zarei are 18 Iranian players in the Asian Championship.

Also, Mehdi Akhwan (technical manager), Majid Parsaei (supervisor), Majid Rahimizadeh (head coach), Hamid Rabbanikia (coach), Reza Sarsanghi (massage) and Mohammad Siavashi (Drozahbanan coach) as the technical staff of the national youth handball team of Iran in the championship competitions. Asia is present.

In the other semi-final match, South Korea won 23-21 against Japan and went to the final.

The final match of the Asian Championship between Iran and South Korea will be held from 19:30 on Wednesday, the 9th of September. Also, the classification match will be held at 17:30 on the same day.

The 9th edition of the Asian Boys Junior Handball Championship started on August 29 in Manama, Bahrain and will continue until September 9.

In these competitions, 5 teams will go to the 2023 World Championship hosted by Croatia, and so far Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan have won the quota for this tournament.

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