2008 Asian Handball Championship in Esfahan

[princeofpersia1]

From Tommorow (February 17th) until February 26th the Asian Handball Championship will be held in Esfahan, Iran.

Fixtures can be seen here : http://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?c=3555 and on the official website for the competition www.asianhandball2008.com

Iran has been placed in a group with Kuwait (Current Asian Champs), Bahrain, China and Lebanon.

Iran's first game is tommorow at 16:00 Esfahan Time versus China. It will be televised definately on Iran TV3 but i'm not so sure about IRIB2.

Good Luck Iran!

[shayan20]

Nice, Esfahan has the best handball players in iran, that's probably why it's held in there, also sepahan's handball team is first in the table.

I remember Esfahan had a lot of good handball stadiums, hope iran will win it.

[princeofpersia1]

Iran are currently beating China, the first half has finished, the second half is about t start.

The score is 19-15 to Iran!

WATCH IT ON IRIB3

[PSGman#19]

Iran are currently beating China, the first half has finished, the second half is about t start.
The score is 19-15 to Iran!
WATCH IT ON IRIB3

does the winner of the tournament qualify for the olympics?

[Soorakhian]

Iran are currently beating China, the first half has finished, the second half is about t start.
The score is 19-15 to Iran!
WATCH IT ON IRIB3

Do you have an internet link to Irib3?

[Mr.Click]

Iran wins 36-28

the absolute Asian power for the past 3-4 years has been Kuwait...Qatar and Korea are the other stronger sides...

let's see if Iran can take full advantage of being the host nation.. our boys need lots of help from our Esfooni fans..

let's go Iran..

[shayan20]

/\i'm sure many esfoonis will go, i don't know why but many esfoonis like handball, i never liked it though.

Hope iran kick some ass

[shayan20]

Pictures of the game against China. Good to see that women can go to these games.
As you can see many people attend these handball games in Esfahan Nesfe jahan.

http://www.espadananews.com/FA/picReport.aspx?IDPH=63

[Mr.Click]

today's match:

Iran 34-27 Lebanon

next up, Bahrain...

[princeofpersia1]

Lebanon are the weakest in the competition and it was clearly evident yesterday.

[princeofpersia1]

Iran lossed today narrowly to Bahrain 32-33, Bahrain won at the very last moment.

Unlucky boys, but were still looking likely to qualify to the next round.

[princeofpersia1]

Iran beat current Asian champions Kuwait today in a 35-34 nailbiter! Iran will now progress to the last 4 for only the 2nd time in Iranian handball history.

Iran will play South Korea on the 24th of Feb.

Mashallah to the boys and our Russian Coach and former Olympic Gold medalist Yury Klimov!

[InKare]

Iran beat current Asian champions Kuwait today in a 35-34 nailbiter! Iran will now progress to the last 4 for only the 2nd time in Iranian handball history.
Iran will play South Korea on the 24th of Feb.
Mashallah to the boys and our Russian Coach and former Olympic Gold medalist Yury Klimov!

i saw the game... kuwait gave the game to iran it was so obvious.. they're having problems with the bahrainis so they wanted to kick them out and tell them to not fukc around with kuwaits team...
anyway goodluck for our team and hopefully make it to top 3 and see them in the WC

btw, there was a huge fight the bahrainis started it at the hotels restuarant with the kuwaitis...

[shayan20]

Iran vs Kuwait Pictures
http://www.espadananews.com/FA/picReport.aspx?IDPH=68

[Soorakhian]

does the winner of the tournament qualify for the olympics?

I read some of the details regarding the competition, and I found out that the Olympic qualifers have already been played (but there were some difficulties regarding the final game).

This tournament works as a qualifier to the World Cup. So if Iran wins, we will be directly qualified for the next Handball World cup! (for the first time ever, I think)