Croatia and France to Handball World Cup semifinals
January 25, 2009 by bumeral
Filed under Sport stories
Zagreb (Croatia) .- France won (21-30) to South Korea and went directly into the World Cup semifinals in Croatia, while the hosts with his victory (31-25) before Slovakia sealed his move to the playoffs.
The Olympic champion had no trouble beating South Korea and confirmed his move to semifinals, as the host bowed to Croatia and Slovakia accompanying the Gauls among the top four after the World Cup to show their superiority to the Slovaks.
For its part, the party defeated Hungary in the first group (30-31) in Sweden and both were left with options to move to semifinals, finishing third Hungarians and Swedes fifths after Slovenia.
Meanwhile, in the second group, Germany lost (25-24) against Norway, leaving very igualada the semifinals despite qualifying for the second place, which would pass if it wins the last day for the Danes.
In addition, Denmark fulfilled winning (32-24) to Macedonia and the leader of the group remains second, while Poland hastened their options to move from round to win a convincing (23-35) to Serbia. The Polish-less than the World-qualified for the second phase with doubts, but defeated Poland and have finished with the Balkans.
Another step for Spain
The Spanish team won (31-19) combined with the comfort of Argentina in the second match of the President Cup. As he had done in preparation for the World team Valero Rivera had no trouble disposing a combative but weak selection Albiceleste. Spain is already a hit last feast before January 9 to which the South Americans won 37 to 18.


