Men's Handball Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament-Road to London 2012

[behzadir]

The games have started from today 23rd October and will be going on until 2nd November.

The First Team will qualify for 2012 Olympic Games.

The second Team will qualify for Men's Handball Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

The groups goes as following:



Group A

Iran
Kuwait
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Uzbekistan

Group B

China
Japan
Kazakhstan
Oman
South Korea

2 teams advance to the SF games from each group.


These games are pretty crucial but no one is paying attention. It's a chance for a team sport to be in the Olympics! Though South Korea will be favored to take the lone place as they are the dominant Asian powerhouse and the Host simultaneously. But the only team giving them a headache in the Asian Games last year was Iran for sure.

[behzadir]

Day 1 Results

Group A

Iran 27 - 23 Kuwait Yeah Babyyyy!!

Uzbekistan 26 - 41 Saudi Arabia

Group B

Japan 18 - 31 South Korea

Oman 41 - 27 Kazakhstan

[Nokhodi]

Thanks Behzad.
Please keep us updated.

[behzadir]

Day 2 Results until now:

Group A

KSA 22 - 21 Iran
Qatar 38 - 32 UZB

Group B

Japan 26 - 24 China

[Nokhodi]

Damn it. Disappointing already.

[behzadir]

Day 3 Results:

Group A

Kuwait 31 - 31 Qatar

Group B

S.Korea 31 - Oman 24


Iran will take on Uzbekistan in their 3rd game tomorrow and will go against their biggest and most important matchup against Qatar on Friday. Wish them luck!

[behzadir]

Day 4 Reslult :

Group A

Iran 45- 22 Uzbekistan

One of Iran's main players,the big young fella,Iman Jamali was back in action today after an injury that prevented him playing in the first 2 games.

Iran will take on Qatar in a big and crucial game tomorrow. Beating them will guarantee us a spot in the semis and even maybe topping the group depending on what result will KSA get against Kuwait today.


Edit: KSA has beaten Kuwait 30-21. According to The Iranian Handball Federation site Kuwait played without any motivation and gave away the game deliberately. This way their KSA could top the group as they play Qatar in the last day and if Qatar losses to Iran they will surely lose to KSA on purpose. F**in Arabs do it again

[Nokhodi]

Not surprised at all. Isn't the Asian Handball confederation supposed to very corrupt (even for Asian standards)?

[behzadir]

Not surprised at all. Isn't the Asian Handball confederation supposed to very corrupt (even for Asian standards)?

Yes they are corrupted as hell and in Kuwaits (Arabs) favor. That made the International Handball Federation interfere in stuff a few years ago.

[behzadir]

WE made itttttttttttttttttt!!!

Semis baby

Iran 35 - 32 Qatar

What a game!! The Iranian National TV(channel 3) broadcasted the game live!!

Next we're going up against S.Korea in the semis. Slim chance but we have faith in our boys now.

[Nokhodi]

Thanks for the update. I don't think we have much of a chance, but lets hope they can do it.

[Makan]

It's still nice to see that Iran is simply active in these sporting events even if nothing comes of them.

[dcpp]

isn't South Korea a world class team in handball? it's going to be a tough game

[Nokhodi]

We lost

[persian-eagle-13]

iran finished 3rd in the tournament, only the first place and second place qualify for Olympic. not bad